Bomber command / Max Hastings ; [editors, Erik Gilg and Madeleine Vasaly].

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Hastings, Max.
• TeilnehmendeR: Gilg, Erik.; Vasaly, Madeleine.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Zenith military classics
• Physical Description: xxix, 370 p., [8] p. of plates :; ill., ports.
• Notes: First published in 1979 by Michael Joseph Limited, a division of Penguin Group.

Table of Contents

• 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.