The Bomber Command War Diaries

`There are a lot of people who say that bombing cannot win the war. My reply to that is that it has never been tried yet. We shall see'
— Air Marshal Sir Arthur (Bomber) Harris

Bomber Command's campaign started on the very first day of the Second World War and ended within a few hours of the final victory in Europe five and a half years later. It was an attempt to win a war in Europe by strategic bombing on such an enormous scale that historians are only now beginning to piece together the finer details of the individual raids.
There have been many books about Bomber Command, but Martin Middlebrook, the aviation historian, and his research colleague Chris Everitt are the first to compile the full story of this fascinating campaign in reference form. They undertook the gargantuan task not only of documenting every Bomber Command operation but also of obtaining information from local archives in Germany, Italy and the occupied countries on the effects of the raids. Little of this material has been published previously, and never before have the two sides of Bomber Command's war been brought together in this way.
The Bomber Command War Diaries are sure to become the standard work of reference on this extraordinary campaign.



by Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt
Published by Viking 1987 reprint. 804pp illustrated, index, appendix. bibliography. 16x24 minor annotations, otherwise very good, d/j edge worn.





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