BOMBER COMMAND "A brilliant tour-de-force" Times Literary Supplement
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Characteristics
| Book cover finish | Perfect paperback |
| Condition | VG |
| Number of pages | 400 |
| Published date | 1999, first published 1979 by Michael Joseph Limited |
| Language | English |
| Collection / Series | PAN GRAND STRATEGY SERIES |
| Size | 12.7 x 19.69 x 3.18 cm |
| Author | Max Hastings |
| Editor | Pan Books Ltd |
Description
"This is the most critical book yet written about Bomber Command… It is also far and away the best" The Economist
Bomber Command's offensive against the cities of Germany was one of the epic campaigns of the Second World War. More than 56,000 British and Commonwealth aircrew and 600,000 Germans died in the course of the RAF's attempt to win the war by bombing. The struggle began in 1939, with a few score primitive Whitleys, Hampdens and Wellingtons groping blindly through the darkness over Europe. It ended six years later with 1,600 Lancaster's, Halifaxes and Mosquitoes, equipped with the cream of Britain's wartime high technology, razing whole cities in a single night.
Max Hastings has traced the developments of area bombing using a wealth of documents, letters, diaries and interviews with key surviving witnesses. Bomber Command at last lays bare the reality of one of the most controersial struggles of the war.