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Tornado Down
Cover Notes RAF a flight Lieutenant's John Peters, Pilot, and John Nichol, navigator, were the ordinary two man crew of a Tornado, when the Gulf War broke out. Shot down by a Sam Missile, they became extraordinary when their tortured faces, battered almost beyond recognition by their Iraqi interrogators, flashed across the world's television screens. In that instant they became the symbol of Saddam Hussein brutal regime, an image of suffering that was engraved on the public's mind. Tornado Down is their story. It is a graphic and painfully honest account of the hectic build up to war, the intense excitement of operational training and actual combat and, in sudden and stark contrast, the humiliation of imprisonment and torture, followed in the aftermath of war by the heady emotions of release and the pitfalls of unsolicited media attention that By turns appalling, moving and improbably funny, Tornado Down is a riveting account of modern aerial warfare. It is also the private voice of war, a triumphant affirmation that humanity can and does prevail in the face of abuse and suffering. Reviews None
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