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Author : Sir Charles Kingsley Webster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:816329608
Author : Charles Kingsley Webster,Noble Frankland
Publisher : Naval & Military Press
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 40,6 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 : 570 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : UOM:39015066409098
Author : Sir Charles Kingsley Webster,Noble Frankland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : STANFORD:36105007515070
Author : Sir Charles Kingsley Webster,Noble Frankland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : STANFORD:36105007515062
Author : Sir Charles Kingsley Webster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:816329607
Author : Charles Webster,Noble Frankland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:464447630
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 : 332 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : OCLC:277168043
Author : Charles Webster,Noble Frankland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : OCLC:277168043
Author : Sir Charles Webster,Noble Frankland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0116301996
Author : Charles Kingsley Webster,Noble Frankland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1403436471
Author : Sir Charles Webster Staff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1845744373
VOLUME I: PREPARATION. PARTS 1, 2 AND 3. First of four volumes of the official history of the Second World War on the ever-controversial subject of Bomber Command s strategic air offensive against German cities. This takes the story up to the beginning of 1943. Volume II: Endeavour. Part 4 The second of four volumes of Britain s official history of the Second World War devoted to Bomber Command s air offensive against Germany. The book examines Anglo-American conflict in 1943 over whether to concentrate on precision or general bombing, and the Dambusters raid. VOLUME III: VICTORY. PART 5 The official history of the final year of the strategic air offensive against Germany. Contains an assessment of the controversial bombing of Dresden and accounts of the clashes among the allied air chiefs over their aims. VOLUME IV. Annexes and Appendices
Author : Senior Research Fellow Charles Webster,Sir Charles Webster Staff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1845743873
1943 was the watershed year for Bomber Command s ever-escalating strategic air offensive against Germany. As the authors of this second in the four-volume official history of the bomber offensive point out, in the first three months of that year the average number of bombers available to the RAF for operations against Germany almost doubled from 500 to 974, including nearly 600 of the new, fast and heavy Lancaster bombers. At the same time, British aircrew were augmented by the Dominions - chiefly Canadians, Australians and New Zealanders. By January 1945, 46 percent of Bomber Command s pilots came from the Dominions - over half of them Canadians. 1943 was also the year when the USAF joined the offensive, and, although their unescorted daylight raids on selected targets suffered a fearful casualty toll from German fighters, they set the pattern for future combined Anglo-American operagtions against Germany. The authors also examine the splits that opened up between the three men directing the offensive - Sir Charles Portal, the Chief of Air Staff; Sir Arthur Harris, head of Bomber Command; and General Eaker, the head of the Eighth US Air Force. The Americans advocated strict selection of targets, while Harris backed all-out area attacks on such targets as Hamburg, the Ruhr and Berlin. For most of 1943, the authors argue, allied co-operation was replaced by competiton between the two schools of thought. Portal s Air Staff eventually backed the Americans, directing Bomber Command to hit targets producing German planes and aircraft parts. One result was the RAF s raid on the Schweinfurt ball bearings centre in February 1944. Another precision target examined here was 617 Squadron s famous Dambusters raid. As effective long-range allied fighters came into service to protect the US day bombers, the Combined Allied bomber offensive really began in early 1944. However, hopes that bombing alone would be enough to cripple the German war effort proved, the authors admit, completely abortive . In fact German armamants production actually increased by leaps and bounds under the skilful direction of armaments minister Albert Speer. As a result, the book concludes with an attempt by the authors to gauge the effects of Harris area bombing offensive. Well Illustrated with 15 maps and 35 photographs of aircrew, aircraft, bomb damage etc.
Author : Charles Webster,Noble Frankland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:163349860
