The bombing war : Europe 1939-1945 / Richard Overy.
Overy, R. J.,author.
Overy, R. J.Bombing war.
Provides a full narrative history of the aerial campaigns history of World War Two, from Stalingrad to the ports of the west cost, from Clydeside to Malta. Brings together strategy, politics, technology, combat, and social policy to understand the real experience of both bombing and being bombed.
Originally published: London : Allen Lane, 2013.
Prologue : bombing Bulgaria -- Bombing before 1940 : imagined and real -- Germany's bombing war. The first strategic air offensive, September 1940 to June 1941 ; Taking it? : British society and the Blitz ; The untold chapter : the bombing of Soviet cities -- 'The greatest battle' : Allied bombers over Europe. The sorcerer's apprentice : bomber command 1939-42 ; The combined bomber offensive : Germany 1943-5 ; The logic of total war : German society under the bombs ; Italy : the war of bombs and words ; Bombing friends, bombing enemies : Germany's new order -- 'The greatest miscalculation'? The balance sheet of bombing ; Epilogue : lessons learned and not learned : bombing into the post-war world.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Provides a full narrative history of the aerial campaigns history of World War Two, from Stalingrad to the ports of the west cost, from Clydeside to Malta. Brings together strategy, politics, technology, combat, and social policy to understand the real experience of both bombing and being bombed.
Some sections published as: The bombers and the bombed : Allied air war over Europe 1940-1945. London: Allen Lane, 2013.
World War, 1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945
Bombing, Aerial
Bombing, Aerial
Civil defense
Bombing, Aerial
Bombing, Aerial
Public opinion
World War, 1939-1945