Bomber command / / Max Hastings ; [editors, Erik Gilg and Madeleine Vasaly]
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| Autore: |
Hastings Max
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| Titolo: |
Bomber command / / Max Hastings ; [editors, Erik Gilg and Madeleine Vasaly]
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| Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, Minn., : Zenith Press, an imprint of MBI Pub. Co., 2013 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (400 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 940.5/44/941 |
| Soggetto topico: | World War, 1939-1945 - Aerial operations, British |
| World War, 1939-1945 - Regimental histories - Great Britain | |
| World War, 1939-1945 - Destruction and pillage - Germany | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Germany History 1933-1945 |
| Altri autori: |
GilgErik
VasalyMadeleine
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| 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Bomber Command is Sir Max Hastings' classic account of one of the most controversial struggles of World War II: the British air offensive against the cities of Nazi Germany. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Bomber command |
| ISBN: | 1-61058-863-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910824701403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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