Title:
The bombers and the bombed : Allied air war over Europe 1940-1945 / Richard Overy.
ISBN:
9780670025152
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York, New York : Viking, 2014.
©2013
Physical Description:
xxviii, 562 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Contents:
Prologue: Bombing Bulgaria -- The sorcerer's apprentice: Bomber Command 1939-42 -- The Casablanca Offensive: the Allies over Germany 1943-44 -- The "Battle of Germany", 1944-45 -- The logic of total war: German society under the bombs -- Italy: The war of bombs and words -- Bombing friends, bombing enemies: Germany's new order -- Epilogue: Lessons learned and not learned: bombing into the post-war world.
Summary:
A history of the Allied bombing campaigns of World War II questions the morality of British and American attacks on occupied European cities while offering insight into the course of the civilian front line of the Allied air war as it was shaped by political strategies.
Subject Term:
OCLC Number:
ocn842350843
Availability:
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