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Author : Sir Charles Kingsley Webster,Noble Frankland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : UOM:39015066445837
Author : Sir Charles Kingsley Webster,Noble Frankland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : MINN:31951001784833D
Author : Charles Kingsley Webster,Noble Frankland
Publisher : Naval & Military Press
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 1845743504
No aspect of the Second World War has become more controversial in recent years than Britain s Strategic Air Offensive against Germany. Argument has raged over both the morality of mass bombing of heavily populated cities; over its effectiveness in seriously impairing Germany s war effort and over the horrendous casualty rates caused - both to civilians on the ground, and to the aircrew of RAF Bomber Command who lost some 52,000 men - a higher attrition rate than any other branch of the armed services. In assessing the campaign the official British history of the offensive, of which this is the fourth and final volume, is indispensible. This book contains the background documents - some highly secret - on which the previous narratives of the campaign are based. There are chapters on radar - that war-winning British invention - on navigational aids; on bombs and bombsights and on post-war British and US surveys into the effectiveness of their devastating attacks. There are minutes, mem oranda, operational orders and reports from the key figures involved in directing the air war: Sir Arthur B omber Harris himself; Sir John Dill, Sir Charles Portal and from the father of the RAF, Lord Trenchard. There are also important papers from the other side of the hill - the Germans, including police reports on the firestorm which swept away the port of Hamburg; and personal reports from Armaments MInister Albert Speer to Hitler on the results of the RAF blitz on German oil and fuel production in June 1944. The book also contains fascinating facts and figures on losses to aircrew, tonnage of bombs dropped, the RAF s order of battle and estimates of damage done and civilian casualties. Altogether this essential book gives the hard facts on which any conclusions about Britain s air offensive must ultimately be based.
Author : Sir Charles Kingsley Webster,Noble Frankland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : UOM:39015007028056
Author : Sir Charles Kingsley Webster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:816329608
Author : Sir Charles Webster,Noble Frankland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : OCLC:277168043
Author : Sir Charles Kingsley Webster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:816329607
Author : Charles Webster,Noble Frankland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : OCLC:277168043
Author : Senior Research Fellow Charles Webster,Sir Charles Webster Staff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1845743881
This, the third in the four volumes of the British Official History of the Second World War dealing with Bomber Command s air offensive against Germany, covers the final year of the offensive: from April1944 to May 1945. It is a story of growing allied strength and technical effectiveness. In July 1944, more than 5,000 RAF and USAF bombers were raining down bombs on Germany from their bases in Britain and Italy. In March 1944, the peak month, the RAF alone dropped more than 67,000 tons of bombs, and the Allies between them more than 130,000 tons. Yet all this was achieved against a background of continued controversy among the Allied air chiefs over the purpose of the bombing . The old squabbles over whether precision or general area bombing should be the main aim re-opened now that the allies had the capacity to do either, both at night and in daylight. In addition the allied offensive was, from early 1944 onwards, increasingly subjected to the needs of Operation Overlord - the invasion of German-occupied Europe. As well as pounding the industrial heart of Germany to achive air superiority; disruption of German production and a slump in German civilian morale; the RAF and USAF were expected to prepare for, and subsequently support, the invasion. Despite this diversion, as Bomber Command switched to devastating the French railway system, relentless attacks on Germany went on - particulalry on oil production. But the head of Bomber Command, Sir Arthur Harris, continued to insist on the primacy of area bombing of German cities, in the teeth of growing doubts among Sir Charles Portal s Air Staff, and in October 1944, write the authors, the strategic air offensive was resumed with unprecedented violence . But the unresolved differences between Portal, Harris, and Air Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, who favoured attacking enemy communications above all, remained, say the authors a tragic deadlock . Probably the darkest shadow hanging over the final months of the air offensive, however, was the massive raid on Dresden in Februrary 1944. In this attack, made by the RAF by night and the USAF by day, many thousands of civilians died and the city centre was totally razed. Dresden was, and remains, hugely controversial, and was even criticised by Churchill, although, as the authors point out: it was he himself who contributed much of the incentive to carry it out . Despite such clashes and controversies however, as the authors insist, the actual operations were an undoubted triumph and the war in Europe ended with Harris s aim achieved: a devastated Germany with her industrial productivity destroyed and the centres of her cities in ruins. With 14 maps and 29 photographs.
Author : Sir Charles Kingsley Webster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:822642474
Author : Sir Charles Webster,Noble Frankland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0116301996
Author : Charles Kingsley Webster,Noble Frankland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1403436471
Author : Sir Charles Webster,Noble Frankland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : OCLC:277168046
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1474540228
The ever-controversial subject of Bomber Command's strategic air offensive against German cities, and industrial targets, in a series of 35 maps extracted form the four volume official history of the air offensive against Germany. Britain's bombing offensive, one of the few weapons available to it in the dark early days of the war, escalated after the battles of France and Britain and the opening of the Luftwaffe's Blitz on Britain, from precision targets to mass area bombing of cities. This is a very useful map collection that should be part of every serious WW2 aviation scholar's collection.
Author : Sir Charles Webster,Noble Frankland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : OCLC:277168046
