I read it last year, It is a stirring account of the raid and the aftermath. I highly recommend it.
I’m just over half way through where the raiders have crash landed and are either getting away into the interior of China or getting captured and tortured by the Japanese. The descriptions of their injuries, infections, gangrene; the lack of any basic medical care in rural China and even in their hospitals — yikes. What those men endured is unbelievable. You never hear much about the aftermath.
How unfortunate that they had to launch prematurely several hundred miles west of their planned launch point after getting discovered by the Japanese. I can’t imagine the thoughts and terror the crews experienced knowing that they were not going to reach the destination airfields in the interior of China.
Indeed - highly recommended!