num_pages: 592
description: Between 1939 and 1945 hundreds of European cities towns and villages were devastated by aerial bombing; around 600000 Europeans were killed and more than a million injured. In this first full narrative history of the air war Overy deals with the whole of Europe Scandinavia and the USSR; he considers bombing as part of broader strategies; and he looks at the campaigns from two what they were meant to achieve and the impact they had in reality on bombed populations.
language: English
title: The Bombers and The Bombed: Allied Air War over Europe 1940-1945
publisher: Viking