Attack Alarm

Attack Alarm is a 1941 thriller novel by the British writer Hammond Innes. It was inspired by the author's own experience as an anti-aircraft gunner at RAF Kenley during the Battle of Britain.[1] It was published in the United States the following year by Macmillan.[2]

Attack Alarm
First edition
AuthorHammond Innes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreThriller
PublisherCollins
Publication date
1941
Media typePrint

Synopsis

In the summer of 1940, as the battle between the British and German air forces continues a former Fleet Street journalist now a gunner serving in an anti-aircraft battery begins to suspect that there may be a plot on the ground even more dangerous to his country than the enemy planes.

References

  1. "ATTACK ALARM – Hammond Innes's portrait of Kenley's Hardest Day". Kenley Revival. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
  2. Vinson & Kirkpatrick p.455

Bibliography

  • James Vinson & D. L. Kirkpatrick. Contemporary Novelists. St. James Press, 1986.


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