The Bomber Command campaign began on the first day of the Second World War and ended a few hours after the final victory in Europe five and a half years later. It was an attempt to win the war in Europe through strategic bombing on such a massive scale that historians have only recently begun to piece together the details of each individual raid. There are many books about Bomber Command, but aviation historian Martin Middlebrook and his research colleague Chris Everitt were the first to compile a complete overview of all the raids and the background to this campaign. They undertook the enormous task of not only documenting every Bomber Command operation, but also obtaining information from local archives in Germany, Italy and the occupied countries about the impact of the raids. Little of this material had been published before, and never before had the two sides of Bomber Command's war been brought together in this way. The Bomber Command War Diaries has become the standard work on this extraordinary campaign. This edition includes retrospective observations and a new appendix.
Group
Books (first-hand)
Author
Middlebrook, Martin/Everitt, Chris
Title
The Bomber Command War Diaries
Details
English text, paperback, 50 bw-illustrations. 808 pages.
State
new
Subtitle
An Operational Reference Book, 1939–1945
Pen & Sword Books Ltd Church Street 47 S70 2AS South Yorkshire Vereinigtes Königreich
