BOMBER COMMAND

HASTINGS Max

ISBN 10: 1509856250 / ISBN 13: 9781509856251

Published by Macmillan, 2010. 9781509856251, 2010

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New edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original gilt lettered green cloth (VG), dustwrapper (residue of price stickers on covers -otherwise VG in protective wrapper, not price clipped). Pp. xiv + 527, illus with b&w photos (no inscriptions).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: BOMBER COMMAND
• Publisher: Macmillan, 2010. 9781509856251
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1509856250
• ISBN 13: 9781509856251
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Aviation History

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Synopsis

Bomber commands 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 Whitley's, Hapdens and Wellingtons groping blindly through the darkness over Europe. It ended six years later with 1,600 Lancaster's, Halifax's and Mosquitoes, equipped with the cream of Britain's wartime high technology, razing whole cities in a single night. Max Hastings traced the development of area bombing using a wealth of documents, letters, diaries and interviews with key surviving witnesses. Bomber Command is his classic account of one of the most controversial struggles of the war. Brilliantly researched..... an important contribution to our understanding of the second world war. Len Deighton. By far and away the best book. The Economist.