The Bomber War: The Allied Air Offensive Against Nazi Germany
by Robin Neillands
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The bomber campaign against Germany is one of the most contentious of World War II. Was anything achieved by the deaths of thousands of German civilians-many of them women and children? Or were all means justified against Nazi Germany? Acclaimed military historian Robin Neillands examines every detail of the allied campaign led by British Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur "Bomber" Harris: the strengths and fundamental flaws, the technical difficulties and developments and, above all, the show more day-to-day, night-by-night endurance of the crews flying to the limit in discomfort and danger, facing flak and enemy fire. Personal experiences of British, American, Canadian, Australian and other ally fliers play a key part in this account, along with those of German airmen and civilians. Though The Bomber War discusses Guernica and the destruction of Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it concentrates on the European theater, on Germany's air war against the allies - over Warsaw, Rotterdam, London and Coventry-which led the fierce allied raids carried out against Cologne, Hamburg, Berlin and the Ruhr and-most notorious of all-the tremendous destruction of Dresden in the last months of the war. Robin Neillands also examines the complex moral issues involved in the air war, and of the case made against "Bomber" Harris. This is a timely addition to the history of conflict; the age of free-fall bombs has passed, but many veterans-on both sides-are still alive to state their case, and to tell a knew generation what their war was like. show lessTags
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Robin Neillands lectures on military history at the National Army Museum in London and for the Department of Further Education at the University of Oxford.
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- Canonical title
- The Bomber War: The Allied Air Offensive Against Nazi Germany
- Original publication date
- 2001
- People/Characters
- Sir Arthur Harris
- Important events
- World War II (1939 | 1945); Battle of Britain
- Dedication
- This one is for Byron Farwell of Hillsboro, Virginia, USA and Colin Fox of Reading, Berkshire, England who taught me a lot about military history
- Blurbers
- Morrison, Blake
- Original language
- English
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- Members
- 200
- Popularity
- 163,025
- Rating
- (3.79)
- Languages
- Czech, English, German
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 8
- ASINs
- 4
