Download or read book The Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany written by Sir Charles Kingsley Webster and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany written by Sir Charles Kingsley Webster and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany written by Charles Webster and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany 1939 1945 written by Charles Kingsley Webster and published by Naval & Military Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No aspect of the Second World War has become more controversial in recent years than Britain s Strategic Air Offensive against Germany. Argument has raged over both the morality of mass bombing of heavily populated cities; over its effectiveness in seriously impairing Germany s war effort and over the horrendous casualty rates caused - both to civilians on the ground, and to the aircrew of RAF Bomber Command who lost some 52,000 men - a higher attrition rate than any other branch of the armed services. In assessing the campaign the official British history of the offensive, of which this is the fourth and final volume, is indispensible. This book contains the background documents - some highly secret - on which the previous narratives of the campaign are based. There are chapters on radar - that war-winning British invention - on navigational aids; on bombs and bombsights and on post-war British and US surveys into the effectiveness of their devastating attacks. There are minutes, mem oranda, operational orders and reports from the key figures involved in directing the air war: Sir Arthur B omber Harris himself; Sir John Dill, Sir Charles Portal and from the father of the RAF, Lord Trenchard. There are also important papers from the other side of the hill - the Germans, including police reports on the firestorm which swept away the port of Hamburg; and personal reports from Armaments MInister Albert Speer to Hitler on the results of the RAF blitz on German oil and fuel production in June 1944. The book also contains fascinating facts and figures on losses to aircrew, tonnage of bombs dropped, the RAF s order of battle and estimates of damage done and civilian casualties. Altogether this essential book gives the hard facts on which any conclusions about Britain s air offensive must ultimately be based.
Download or read book The Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany 1939 1945 Vol 2 Endeavour written by Sir Charles Kingsley Webster and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany 1939 1945 written by Sir Charles Kingsley Webster and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany 1939 1945 written by Sir Charles Webster and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany 1939 1945 Vol 4 Annexes and Appendices written by Sir Charles Kingsley Webster and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany written by Senior Research Fellow Charles Webster and published by . This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theme of this first of four volumes of the official British history of the Second World War devoted to the RAF s strategic bomber offensive against Germany is in its sub-title Preparation . Beginning with the lessons learned from air bombing in its infancy during the Great War, the authors divide their book into three parts: strategy; operations; appreciations and results. No aspect of Britain s role in the war, as the authors acknowledge in their preface, has been and remains more controversial than the air war against German cities. These books, the product of ten years research, are an essential repository of facts, based on official documents - then still secret - in the archives of the Cabinet Office, the Air Ministry and Bomber Command. Other papers on which this account is based include the official despatches of the Chief of Bomber Command, Sir Arthur Harris, the writings and interrogations of Germany s armaments minister, Albert Speer, and papers from the Air Historical Branch. In addition to written sources, the authors consulted many of the air chiefs, scientists and other officials who directed and led the offensive. - including those of the USAF. From an initial reluctance to bomb German forests because they were private property, Britain s bombing offensive, one of the few weapons available to it in the dark early days of the war, escalated after the battles of France and Britain and the opening of the Luftwaffe s Blitz on Britain, from precision targets to mass area bombing of cities. This book takes the story up to the opening of 1943 with the first thousand bomber raids, the creation of the Pathfinder Force, and the beginning of daylight bombing. The narrative is accompanied by diagrams, six maps and 20 photos of the leading figures behind the offensive, the aircraft involved, and before and after pictures of the raids and their results. This calm, dispassionate book is essential reading for all who are interested in a subject which remains burningly relevant in the 21st century.
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Download or read book Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany 1939 1945 Atlas written by and published by . This book was released on 2024-04-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ever-controversial subject of Bomber Command's strategic air offensive against German cities, and industrial targets, in a series of 35 maps extracted form the four volume official history of the air offensive against Germany. Britain's bombing offensive, one of the few weapons available to it in the dark early days of the war, escalated after the battles of France and Britain and the opening of the Luftwaffe's Blitz on Britain, from precision targets to mass area bombing of cities. This is a very useful map collection that should be part of every serious WW2 aviation scholar's collection.
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Download or read book Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany 1939 1945 written by Charles Webster and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany 1939 1945 written by Charles Webster and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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