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Record Nr.

UNINA9910514201203321

Autore

Hastings Max <1945->

Titolo

Bomber command [[electronic resource] /] / Max Hastings ; [editors, Erik Gilg and Madeleine Vasaly]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minn., : Zenith Press, an imprint of MBI Pub. Co., 2013

ISBN

1-61058-863-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (400 p.)

Collana

Zenith military classics

Altri autori (Persone)

GilgErik

VasalyMadeleine

Disciplina

940.5/44/941

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945 - Aerial operations, British

World War, 1939-1945 - Regimental histories - Great Britain

World War, 1939-1945 - Destruction and pillage - Germany

Electronic books.

Germany History 1933-1945

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1979 by Michael Joseph Limited, a division of Penguin Group.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Prologue -- Norfolk and Heligoland bight, 18 December 1939 -- In the beginning, Trenchard: British bomber policy, 1917-40 -- Squadron, Norfolk, 1940-41 -- Squadron, Yorkshire, 1940-41 -- Crisis of confidence, 1941-42 -- The coming of area bombing, 1942 -- Squadron, Lincolnshire, 1942 -- Harris conducts an overture -- Operations -- Protest and policy, 1942-43 -- Dissent -- Casablanca-the airmen victorious -- The tools of darkness -- Squadron, Yorkshire, 1943 -- The Ruhr -- Hamburg -- Courage -- The other side of the hill: Germany 1940-44 -- The destruction -- The defenses -- Bomber Command Headquarters, Buckinghamshire -- Conflict and compromise, 1943-44 -- The battle of Berlin -- The American breakthrough -- Pathfinders: 97 Squadron, Lincolnshire, 1944 -- "A quiet trip all round": Darmstadt, 11/12 September 1944 -- Saturation -- The balance sheet -- Appendix A: Bomber command sorties dispatched and aircraft missing and written off, 1939-45 -- Appendix B: Specifications and performance of the principal aircraft of Bomber Command and Luftwaffe night-fighters, 1939-45 -- Appendix C: --



The target indicator board at Bomber Command HQ, High Wycombe, at the beginning of February 1945 -- Appendix D: Comparison of British and German production of selected armaments, 1940-44 -- Appendix E: Schedule of German cities subjected to area attack by bomber command, 1942-45 -- Appendix F: Comparison of Allied and German aircraft production, 1939-45.