Summary

Robin Neillands examines every detail of the bomber campaign against Germany during World War II.

Robin Neillands examines every detail of the bomber campaign against Germany during World War II. He looks at the strengths and fundamental flaws in doctrine; the technical difficulties and developments; and the day-by-day, night-by-night endurance of the crews, flying to the limit in discomfort and danger. The book includes oral history in the shape of personal accounts not only of the British but of Americans, Australians, Canadians and other Allied fliers, and also of German aircrews and civilians.