The Nuremberg Raid (CASSELL MILITARY PAPERBACKS) - Softcover

Middlebrook, Martin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0304353426 ISBN 13: 9780304353422

Publisher: Phoenix, 2000

Synopsis

Bomber Command's raid on Nuremberg in early 1944 should have been a routine 'maximum effort' operation. It wasn't: it was a major disaster. The target was only lightly damaged and 96 of the 779 bombers dispatched went missing. Martin Middlebrook recreates the events of the night of 30-31 March in astonishing detail. He consults archives, corresponds with the raid's planners, interviews RAF and Luftwaffe aircrew as well as the German civilians in the areas that were bombed. It is a meticulous, dramatic and often controversial account. It is also a moving testimony to the bravery of both the RAF's bomber crews and their opponents.

About this title

Book Description:

Classic account of a Bomber Command night raid on Germany that went horribly wrong

About the Author:

Following his first book, The First Day on the Somme, Martin Middlebrook has published a series of books on major turning points in the two World Wars ¿ all classics of military history.

About this edition

• Publisher: Phoenix
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0304353426
• ISBN 13: 9780304353422
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 384