The Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany
Author : Sir Charles Kingsley Webster
Publisher :
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 14,53 MB
Release : 1961
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN :
Author : Sir Charles Kingsley Webster
Publisher :
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 14,53 MB
Release : 1961
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN :
Author : Alfred Price
Publisher : Classic Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,46 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Bombing, Aerial
ISBN : 9781903223475
Completely revised, expanded and updated edition of this classic 1973 work. The campaign is analysed from RAF, USAAF and Luftwaffe viewpoints, with in-depth assessment of daylight and nocturnal operations, aircraft weapons, radar and ground defence.
Author : Sir Charles Kingsley Webster
Publisher :
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 16,15 MB
Release : 1961
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN :
Author : British Bombing Survey Unit
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 48,25 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780714647227
At the close of the Second World War both the RAF and the United States Army Air Forces sent teams of investigators to the continent of Europe to try and assess the effectiveness of Allied strategic bombing. The British Survey was originally classified and is published here for the first time. By combining the original Report and an analysis of its strengths and weaknesses, together with a short history of the genesis of the British Survey, this work is an important contribution to the continuing historical debate over the effects of the strategic bombing offensive in the Second World War.
Author : Sir Charles Kingsley Webster
Publisher :
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 30,71 MB
Release : 1961
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN :
Author : Gen Haywood S Hansell Jr
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 12,85 MB
Release : 2012-06-22
Category :
ISBN : 9781478113546
This book seeks to recount air experience and development before World War II, to describe the objectives, plans and effects of air warfare in Europe and in the Pacific, and to offer criticism, opinion, and lessons of that great conflict. The observations in this book constitute a memoir. This book is part of a series of historical volumes published by the United States Air Force, Office of Air Force History.
Author : Williamson Murray
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 883 pages
File Size : 32,67 MB
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 178625770X
Includes the Aerial Warfare In Europe During World War II illustrations pack with over 200 maps, plans, and photos. This book is a comprehensive analysis of an air force, the Luftwaffe, in World War II. It follows the Germans from their prewar preparations to their final defeat. There are many disturbing parallels with our current situation. I urge every student of military science to read it carefully. The lessons of the nature of warfare and the application of airpower can provide the guidance to develop our fighting forces and employment concepts to meet the significant challenges we are certain to face in the future.
Author : Sir Charles Kingsley Webster
Publisher :
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 32,38 MB
Release : 1961
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN :
Author : Richard Overy
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 13,95 MB
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0143126245
“An essential part of the literature of World War II.” —Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post From acclaimed World War II historian Richard Overy comes this startling new history of the controversial Allied bombing war against Germany and German-occupied Europe. In the fullest account yet of the campaign and its consequences, Overy assesses not just the bombing strategies and pattern of operations, but also how the bombed communities coped with the devastation. This book presents a unique history of the bombing offensive from below as well as from above, and engages with moral questions that still resonate today.
Author : Max Hastings
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 25,99 MB
Release : 2013-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1610588630
This award-winning classic of WWII military history chronicles the Royal Air Force’s bombing campaign against Germany. RAF Bomber Command’s air offensive against the cities of Nazi Germany was one of the most epic campaigns of World War II. The struggle began meekly in 1939 with only a few aircraft—Whitleys, Hampdens, and Wellingtons—flying blindly through the night on their ill-conceived bombing runs. It ended six years later with 1,600 Lancasters, Halifaxes, and Mosquitoes, equipped with the best of British wartime technology, blazing whole German cities in a single night. In Bomber Command, originally published to critical acclaim in the UK, famed British military historian Sir Max Hastings offers a captivating analysis of the strategy and decision-making behind one of World War II’s most violent episodes. With firsthand descriptions of the experiences of aircrew from 1939 to 1945—based on one hundred interviews with veterans—and a harrowing narrative of the experiences of Germans on the ground during the September 1944 bombing of Darmstadt, Bomber Command is widely recognized as a classic account of one of the bloodiest campaigns in World War II history. Winner of the Somerset Maugham Prize