John Nichol Books In Order

Point of Impact

In this first novel, Gulf War hero John Nichol uses his first hand combat experience to produce a story of intrigue, romance and daring cockpit action.

Exclusion Zone

The Falklands, 1999 a vital strategic stronghold in the South Atlantic relies on a limited British force to defend it from Argentina’s pledge to regain control by the year 2000. For pilot Sean Riever it is a place of ghosts. For Jane Clark, female navigator, it’s a place of tough decisions.

The Last Escape

Colditz is probably the best known prisoner of war camp. Its inmates and their exploits were extraordinary, but its liberation, in April 1945, was straightforward compared with what happened to the vast majority of British, American and Commonwealth prisoners in the last desperate months of the war. This title discusses how World War II ended for a quarter of a million men held in 55 camps and how, in the last months of the war, most of them became caught up in a desperate endgame. The story of their escape is told through the men, now in their 70s and 80s, who lived through this terrible time. Beginning with the D day landings in June 1944, the text follows them through the closing days of their incarceration and then on their marches across a Europe in chaos. Their experiences are placed in the wider context of the Allied advance and the German retreat, and the increasingly frenzied attempts of those in London and elsewhere to keep track of them.

Tail-End Charlies

Night after night they stifled their fears and flew through flak and packs of enemy fighters to drop the bombs that would demolish the Third Reich. The airmen of the United States 8th Army Air ForceAmerican and British Bomber Command were among the greatest heroes of the Second World War, defying Hitler in the darkest early days of the war and taking the battle to the German homeland when no one else would.
Toward the end of the conflict, too, they continued to sacrifice their lives to shatter an enemy sworn never to surrender. Blasted out of the sky in an instant or bailing out from burning aircraft to drop helplessly into hostile hands, they would die in their tens of thousands to ensure the enemy’s defeat. Especially vulnerable were the tail end Charlies for the Americans, which meant two things: the gunners who flew countless missions in a plexiglass bubble at the back of the bomber, and the last bomber in the formation who ended up flying through the most hell, and for the British, the rear gunners who flew operations in a Plexiglas bubble at the back of the bomber.
Following their groundbreaking revelations about the ordeals suffered by Allied prisoners of war in their bestselling book, The Last Escape, John Nichol and Tony Rennell tell the astonishing and deeply moving story of the controversial last battles in the skies of Germany through the eyes of the forgotten heroes who fought them. This is the best account that has been written of the heroic American and British bomber crews…
the best of its kind.
George McGovern Rivaling the best of Stephen Ambrose s work, Tail End Charlies gives a breathtakingly intimate look at the lives, loves, and deaths of the brave airmen of the greatest generation. This fascinating book is as valuable for its stories of joyous life on the ground as it is for its sobering tales of death in the air. You see the whole picture of the war here from the eyes of the strong young men who fought it.
Walter J. Boyne, bestselling author of Beyond the Wild Blue

Adds new dimensions to the saga of the air war in Europe. The eyewitness accounts, reported within the context of the battle against Na*zi Germany, provide a sense of the ordeals, the terror, the gore, and the heroism of ordinary men thrust into the savagery of aerial combat.
Gerald Astor, author of The Mighty Eighth

Return of the Dambusters

Audio CD, Tantor and Blackstone Publishing