The Battle of Hamburg: The Firestorm Raid (Cassell Military Paperbacks)
by Martin Middlebrook
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Over the course of 11 days in the summer of 1943, Allied bombers conducted six major air raids on Hamburg. Historians call this sustained period of bombing the Battle of Hamburg; citizens of that city refer to it as "die Katastrophe." How was this notoriously dangerous mission carried out--and how, amazingly, did everything go exactly according to plan for the Allies? Using the perspective of flight crews on both sides, and the citizenry below, the answers come into brilliant focus.Tags
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Over the course of 11 days in the summer of 1943, Allied bombers conducted six major air raids on Hamburg. Historians call this sustained period of bombing the Battle of Hamburg; citizens of that city refer to it as "die Katastrophe." How was this notoriously dangerous mission carried out--and how, amazingly, did everything go exactly according to plan for the Allies? Using the perspective of flight crews on both sides, and the citizenry below, the answers come into brilliant focus.
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Martin Middlebrook has written many other books that deal with important turning-point in the two world wars, including The First Day on the Somme, The Kaiser's Battle, The Peeneminde Raid, The Somme Battlefields (with Mary Middlebrook), The Nuremberg Raid 30-31st March 1944 and Arnhem 1944 (all republished and in print with Pen and Sword).
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- Hamburg, Germany
- Important events
- World War II (1939 | 1945); Bombing of Hamburg
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