It is in a similar theme to Mike Harding's Bomber's Moon. That one always gets me.....
Especially when Harding says it is dedicated to...
The memory of my father, FS Luis Arthur "Curly" Harding, a navigator in Lancaster bombers who deid with his crew when his plane was shot down returning from a raid over Germany. I is also dedicated to the memory of my good friend Jurgen Boch of Cologne, who was a small child in a bomb shelter in Germany on the night my father died, and to my mother who was a bride, a widow and a mother with the space of a year.
FS Harding was shot down a few weeks before the birth of his son.