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The Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany
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Author : Sir Charles Kingsley Webster
language : en
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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
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Release Date : 1961
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Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany 1939 1945
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Author : Charles Kingsley Webster
language : en
Publisher: Naval & Military Press
Release Date : 2006
Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany 1939 1945 written by Charles Kingsley Webster and has been published by Naval & Military Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.
No aspect of the Second World War has become more controversial in recent years than Britain s Strategic Air Offensive against Germany. Argument has raged over both the morality of mass bombing of heavily populated cities; over its effectiveness in seriously impairing Germany s war effort and over the horrendous casualty rates caused - both to civilians on the ground, and to the aircrew of RAF Bomber Command who lost some 52,000 men - a higher attrition rate than any other branch of the armed services. In assessing the campaign the official British history of the offensive, of which this is the fourth and final volume, is indispensible. This book contains the background documents - some highly secret - on which the previous narratives of the campaign are based. There are chapters on radar - that war-winning British invention - on navigational aids; on bombs and bombsights and on post-war British and US surveys into the effectiveness of their devastating attacks. There are minutes, mem oranda, operational orders and reports from the key figures involved in directing the air war: Sir Arthur B omber Harris himself; Sir John Dill, Sir Charles Portal and from the father of the RAF, Lord Trenchard. There are also important papers from the other side of the hill - the Germans, including police reports on the firestorm which swept away the port of Hamburg; and personal reports from Armaments MInister Albert Speer to Hitler on the results of the RAF blitz on German oil and fuel production in June 1944. The book also contains fascinating facts and figures on losses to aircrew, tonnage of bombs dropped, the RAF s order of battle and estimates of damage done and civilian casualties. Altogether this essential book gives the hard facts on which any conclusions about Britain s air offensive must ultimately be based.
The Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany
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Author : Sir Charles Kingsley Webster
language : en
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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 1939 1945
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Author : Sir Charles Webster
language : en
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Release Date : 1961
The Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany 1939 1945 written by Sir Charles 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 1939 1945 Vol 2 Endeavour
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Author : Sir Charles Kingsley Webster
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1961
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Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany
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Author : Senior Research Fellow Charles Webster
language : en
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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.
This, the third in the four volumes of the British Official History of the Second World War dealing with Bomber Command s air offensive against Germany, covers the final year of the offensive: from April1944 to May 1945. It is a story of growing allied strength and technical effectiveness. In July 1944, more than 5,000 RAF and USAF bombers were raining down bombs on Germany from their bases in Britain and Italy. In March 1944, the peak month, the RAF alone dropped more than 67,000 tons of bombs, and the Allies between them more than 130,000 tons. Yet all this was achieved against a background of continued controversy among the Allied air chiefs over the purpose of the bombing . The old squabbles over whether precision or general area bombing should be the main aim re-opened now that the allies had the capacity to do either, both at night and in daylight. In addition the allied offensive was, from early 1944 onwards, increasingly subjected to the needs of Operation Overlord - the invasion of German-occupied Europe. As well as pounding the industrial heart of Germany to achive air superiority; disruption of German production and a slump in German civilian morale; the RAF and USAF were expected to prepare for, and subsequently support, the invasion. Despite this diversion, as Bomber Command switched to devastating the French railway system, relentless attacks on Germany went on - particulalry on oil production. But the head of Bomber Command, Sir Arthur Harris, continued to insist on the primacy of area bombing of German cities, in the teeth of growing doubts among Sir Charles Portal s Air Staff, and in October 1944, write the authors, the strategic air offensive was resumed with unprecedented violence . But the unresolved differences between Portal, Harris, and Air Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, who favoured attacking enemy communications above all, remained, say the authors a tragic deadlock . Probably the darkest shadow hanging over the final months of the air offensive, however, was the massive raid on Dresden in Februrary 1944. In this attack, made by the RAF by night and the USAF by day, many thousands of civilians died and the city centre was totally razed. Dresden was, and remains, hugely controversial, and was even criticised by Churchill, although, as the authors point out: it was he himself who contributed much of the incentive to carry it out . Despite such clashes and controversies however, as the authors insist, the actual operations were an undoubted triumph and the war in Europe ended with Harris s aim achieved: a devastated Germany with her industrial productivity destroyed and the centres of her cities in ruins. With 14 maps and 29 photographs.
The Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany 1939 1945 Vol 4 Annexes And Appendices
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Author : Sir Charles Kingsley Webster
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1961
The Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany 1939 1945 Vol 4 Annexes And Appendices 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 categories.
Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany
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Author : Sir Charles Webster Staff
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VOLUME I: PREPARATION. PARTS 1, 2 AND 3. First of four volumes of the official history of the Second World War on the ever-controversial subject of Bomber Command s strategic air offensive against German cities. This takes the story up to the beginning of 1943. Volume II: Endeavour. Part 4 The second of four volumes of Britain s official history of the Second World War devoted to Bomber Command s air offensive against Germany. The book examines Anglo-American conflict in 1943 over whether to concentrate on precision or general bombing, and the Dambusters raid. VOLUME III: VICTORY. PART 5 The official history of the final year of the strategic air offensive against Germany. Contains an assessment of the controversial bombing of Dresden and accounts of the clashes among the allied air chiefs over their aims. VOLUME IV. Annexes and Appendices
The Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany
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Author : Charles Kingsley Webster
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1961
The Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany written by 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 categories.