Bomber Harris And The Strategic Bombing Offensive 1939 1945
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Bomber Harris And The Strategic Bombing Offensive 1939 1945
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Author : Charles Messenger
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
Bomber Harris And The Strategic Bombing Offensive 1939 1945 written by Charles Messenger and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with History categories.
Bogen beskriver de Allieredes strategiske bombeangreb på Nazityskland. "Bomber" Harris, luftmarskal Sir Arthur Harris, leder af Bomberkommandoen, RAF Bomber Command spillede en vigtig rolle i udformningen af de allieredes strategiske planlægning under 2. Verdenskrig som resulterede i de massive bombninger af tyske byer. Det betød voldsomme og omfattende ødelæggelser - og massemord på den tyske civilbefolkning. Harris blev en del kritiseret for for mange "overflødige" bombemissioner med unødvendige tab af fly og flybesætninger.
The Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany
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Author : Sir Charles Kingsley Webster
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1961
The Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany written by Sir Charles Kingsley Webster and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1961 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.
The Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany
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Author : Sir Charles Kingsley Webster
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1961
The Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany written by Sir Charles Kingsley Webster and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1961 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.
To Destroy A City
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Author : Herman Knell
language : en
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Release Date : 2009-06-16
To Destroy A City written by Herman Knell and has been published by Da Capo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-16 with History categories.
Herman Knell was nineteen and living in Würtzburg in March of 1945 when hundreds of Allied planes arrived overhead, unleashing a torrent of bombs on the city. Würtzburg's tightly packed medieval housing exploded in a firestorm, killing six thousand people in one night and destroying 92 percent of the city's structures. Despite the fact that Würtzburg had no strategic value, the city emerged from World War II second only to Dresden in material destruction inflicted from the air. The experience led Knell to years of research on the history, development, and effects of the strategy of area bombing.To Destroy a City is the result of the author's long and unrelenting investigation. His analysis of this form of warfare, which reached its zenith during World War II, covers the history and the development of wide-area bombing since 1914, examines its wartime effectiveness and the consequences. But the extra dimension that Knell's book offers is his firsthand experience of the tension, fear, tentative defiance, and, finally, utter catastrophe of being on the receiving end of overwhelming air power. For Americans, who fortunately did not experience bombing during the war, this is essential reading.
Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany
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Author : Senior Research Fellow Charles Webster
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006-05-01
Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany written by Senior Research Fellow Charles Webster and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-01 with categories.
The theme of this first of four volumes of the official British history of the Second World War devoted to the RAF s strategic bomber offensive against Germany is in its sub-title Preparation . Beginning with the lessons learned from air bombing in its infancy during the Great War, the authors divide their book into three parts: strategy; operations; appreciations and results. No aspect of Britain s role in the war, as the authors acknowledge in their preface, has been and remains more controversial than the air war against German cities. These books, the product of ten years research, are an essential repository of facts, based on official documents - then still secret - in the archives of the Cabinet Office, the Air Ministry and Bomber Command. Other papers on which this account is based include the official despatches of the Chief of Bomber Command, Sir Arthur Harris, the writings and interrogations of Germany s armaments minister, Albert Speer, and papers from the Air Historical Branch. In addition to written sources, the authors consulted many of the air chiefs, scientists and other officials who directed and led the offensive. - including those of the USAF. From an initial reluctance to bomb German forests because they were private property, Britain s bombing offensive, one of the few weapons available to it in the dark early days of the war, escalated after the battles of France and Britain and the opening of the Luftwaffe s Blitz on Britain, from precision targets to mass area bombing of cities. This book takes the story up to the opening of 1943 with the first thousand bomber raids, the creation of the Pathfinder Force, and the beginning of daylight bombing. The narrative is accompanied by diagrams, six maps and 20 photos of the leading figures behind the offensive, the aircraft involved, and before and after pictures of the raids and their results. This calm, dispassionate book is essential reading for all who are interested in a subject which remains burningly relevant in the 21st century.
Bomber Offensive
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Author : Arthur Harris
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2005-03-01
Bomber Offensive written by Arthur Harris and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-03-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The Royal Air Force commander of bombing operations during WWII offers an insider’s view of his legendary career in this classic military memoir. Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur “Bomber” Harris remains a controversial figure in the history of the RAF. While many vilify him for his merciless carpet bombing of Germany, others believe that his contributions to Allied victory are grossly undervalued. In Bomber Offensive, Harris candidly describes how he led the men of Bomber Command in the face of appalling casualties, his fierce disagreements with higher authority, and the complicated relationship he had with Winston Churchill. Written soon after the close of the Second World War, Harris's memoirs reveals the man behind the Allied bombing offensive that destroyed the Nazi war machine, but also many beautiful and historic cities, such as Dresden. His defense of these total war tactics stands in stark contrast to modern military policy, which considers such indiscriminate killing a war crime.
The Bomber War
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Author : Robin Neillands
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001-07-23
The Bomber War written by Robin Neillands and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-07-23 with Bombing, Aerial categories.
The bomber campaign against Germany is one of the most contentious of World War II. Was anything achieved by the deaths of thousands of German civilians-many of them women and children? Or were all means justified against Nazi Germany? Acclaimed military historian Robin Neillands examines every detail of the allied campaign led by British Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur "Bomber" Harris: the strengths and fundamental flaws, the technical difficulties and developments and, above all, the day-to-day, night-by-night endurance of the crews flying to the limit in discomfort and danger, facing flak and enemy fire. Personal experiences of British, American, Canadian, Australian and other ally fliers play a key part in this account, along with those of German airmen and civilians. Though The Bomber War discusses Guernica and the destruction of Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it concentrates on the European theater, on Germany's air war against the allies - over Warsaw, Rotterdam, London and Coventry-which led the fierce allied raids carried out against Cologne, Hamburg, Berlin and the Ruhr and-most notorious of all-the tremendous destruction of Dresden in the last months of the war. Robin Neillands also examines the complex moral issues involved in the air war, and of the case made against "Bomber" Harris. This is a timely addition to the history of conflict; the age of free-fall bombs has passed, but many veterans-on both sides-are still alive to state their case, and to tell a knew generation what their war was like.
Storm From The Skies
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Author : Robert Jackson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
Storm From The Skies written by Robert Jackson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with History categories.
The Bombers
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Author : Norman Longmate
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
The Bombers written by Norman Longmate and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with History categories.
The Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany Victory
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Author : Sir Charles Kingsley Webster
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1961
The Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany Victory written by Sir Charles Kingsley Webster and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1961 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.