The Nuremberg Raid: 30-31 March 1944 (Penguin History)

It should have been a routine "maximum effort" operation--but, instead, Bomber Command's raid on Nuremberg went horribly wrong. The target received only light damage, while 96 of the 779 attacking aircraft disappeared. What happened that fateful night in 1944? A military writer internationally recognized for his superb research recreates the events in astonishing detail from archives, correspondence with the raid's planners, and interviews with RAF and Luftwaffe aircrews, plus civilians from the bombed area. A meticulous, dramatic, and often controversial testimony.