Description
Product ID: | 9781529047790 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Bomber Command |
Authors: | Author: Max Hastings |
Page Count: | 560 |
Subjects: | European history, European history, History, Second World War, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Second World War, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Germany, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2) |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Bomber Command is Max Hasting’s in-depth account of the RAF’s bombing offensive, one the most controversial struggles of the Second World War. <p><b>'A brilliant tour-de-force' - <i>Times Literary Supplement<br><br>Bomber Command </i>is acclaimed historian Sir Max Hastings' compelling account of one of the most controversial struggles of the Second World War.</b><br><br>RAF Bomber Command’s 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 primitive Whitleys, Hampdens and Wellingtons, and ended six years later with 1,600 Lancasters, Halifaxes and Mosquitoes razing whole cities in a single night.<br><br>Max Hastings traced the developments of area bombing using a wealth of documents, letters, diaries and interviews with key surviving witnesses. <i>Bomber Command </i>is, in turn, a fascinating, meticulously-researched, and vivid assessment of the RAF's integral role in the Second World War.</p> |
Imprint Name: | Pan Books |
Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2021-07-08 |