The Bombers and the Bombed: Allied Air War Over Europe 1940-1945 Author: Richard Overy | Language: English | ISBN:
B00DMCV5CK | Format: PDF
The Bombers and the Bombed: Allied Air War Over Europe 1940-1945 Description
The ultimate history of the Allied bombing campaigns in World War II Technology shapes the nature of all wars, and the Second World War hinged on a most unpredictable weapon: the bomb. Day and night, Britain and the United States unleashed massive fleets of bombers to kill and terrorize occupied Europe, destroying its cities. The grisly consequences call into question how “moral” a war the Allies fought.
The Bombers and the Bombed radically overhauls our understanding of World War II. It pairs the story of the civilian front line in the Allied air war alongside the political context that shaped their strategic bombing campaigns, examining the responses to bombing and being bombed with renewed clarity.
The first book to examine seriously not only the well-known attacks on Dresden and Hamburg but also the significance of the firebombing on other fronts, including Italy, where the crisis was far more severe than anything experienced in Germany, this is Richard Overy’s finest work yet. It is a rich reminder of the terrible military, technological, and ethical issues that relentlessly drove all the war’s participants into an abyss.
- File Size: 23160 KB
- Print Length: 593 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0670025151
- Publisher: Viking Adult (February 20, 2014)
- Sold by: Penguin Group (USA) LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00DMCV5CK
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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The U.S. edition of this book is significantly different from the first edition published in England. It's missing the first four chapters and Chapter 10. It also appears to have split Chapter 6 in the UK edition into two chapters. Why? The UK edition has 880 pages, the US edition 592 pages. Shame on Viking Press. Buy the English edition and shun this one.
By am52user
The American edition of this book drops several chapters from the UK edition and is hundreds of pages shorter. I would buy the UK edition.
By Gary B Phillips
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