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The Bombing War: Europe, 1939-1945

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Description for The Bombing War: Europe, 1939-1945 paperback. Tells the history of the Blitz in the Second World War. This book examines the well-known parts of the campaign, and the significance of bombing on many other fronts - the German use of bombers on the Eastern Front for example (and discovered material on the more familiar 'Blitz' on Britain), or the Allied campaigns against Italian cities. Num Pages: 880 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 40. Weight in Grams: 632.

The ultimate history of the Blitz and bombing in the Second World War, from Wolfson Prize-winning historian and author Richard Overy

The use of massive fleets of bombers to kill and terrorize civilians was an aspect of the Second World War which continues to challenge the idea that Allies specifically fought a 'moral' war. For Britain, bombing became perhaps its principal contribution to the fighting as, night after night, exceptionally brave men flew over occupied Europe destroying its cities.

The Bombing War radically overhauls our understanding of the War. It is the first book to examine ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
Number of Pages
880
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141003214
SKU
9780141003214
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Richard Overy
Richard Overy is the author of a series of remarkable books on the Second World War and the wider disasters of the twentieth century. The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia won both the Wolfson Prize for History and the Hessell-Tiltman Prize. He is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. Penguin publishes 1939: Countdown to War, The Morbid Age, ... Read more

Reviews for The Bombing War: Europe, 1939-1945
Magnificent ... must now be regarded as the standard work on the bombing war ... It is probably the most important book published on the history of he second world war this century
Richard J Evans
Guardian
Monumental ... this is a major contribution to one of the most controversial aspects of the Second World War ... ... Read more

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