Bomber Command.

Intro -- Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Prologue: Norfolk and Heligoland Bight, 18 December 1939 -- Chapter I: In the Beginning, Trenchard: British Bomber Policy, 1917-40 -- Chapter II: 82 Squadron, Norfolk, 1940-41 -- Chapter III: 10 Squadron, Yorkshire, 1940-41 -- Chapter IV: Crisis of Confidence, 1941-42 -- Chapter V: The Coming of Area Bombing, 1942 -- Chapter VI: 50 Squadron, Lincolnshire, 1942 -- 1. Harris Conducts an Overture -- 2. Operations -- Chapter VII: Protest and Policy, 1942-43 -- 1. Dissent -- 2. Casablanca-The Airmen Victorious -- 3. The Tools of Darkness -- Chapter VIII: 76 Squadron, Yorkshire, 1943 -- 1. The Ruhr -- 2. Hamburg -- 3. Courage -- Chapter IX: The Other Side of the Hill: Germany 1940-44 -- 1. The Destruction -- 2. The Defenses -- Chapter X: Bomber Command Headquarters, Buckinghamshire -- Chapter XI: Conflict and Compromise, 1943-44 -- 1. The Battle of Berlin -- 2. The American Breakthrough -- Chapter XII: Pathfinders: 97 Squadron, Lincolnshire, 1944 -- Chapter XIII: "A Quiet Trip All Round": Darmstadt, 11/12 September 1944 -- Chapter XIV: Saturation -- Chapter XV: 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 -- Bibliography and a note on sources -- Notes and references -- Glossary of ranks, abbreviations and codenames -- Acknowledgments.

Index -- Dedication -- Photo Insert -- Copyright Page.

Bomber Command is Sir Max Hastings' classic account of one of the most controversial struggles of World War II: the British air offensive against the cities of Nazi Germany.

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