- Publisher: Amberley
- Year: 2024
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 320pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 242x166mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.7kg
- ISBN: 9781398116504
- Product code: 541335
The Air War Through German Eyes
How the Luftwaffe Lost the Skies Over the Third Reich
Jonathan Trigg New Hardback Illustrated
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Germany entered the Second World War with its Luftwaffe in control of its skies; Air Marshal Hermann Goering thought its cities were invulnerable to bombing. Drawing on the recollections of German airmen and civilians, this account tells how, from 1942, the tide was turned by the arrival of US Flying Fortresses and the Lancasters of Arthur Harris’ Bomber Command, which would reduce Hamburg, Dresden and Berlin to rubble.
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Starting with leaflet drops in 1940, the aerial offensive against the Nazis' homeland grew into a huge armada that pulverised much of Germany, seriously damaging her ability to make war and killing hundreds of thousands. By day, the Flying Fortresses of the Mighty Eighth US Airforce confronted the day fighters of Luftflotte Reich, and then it was the turn of Bomber Command's Lancasters to fight off the deadly predators of the Nachtjagd (night hunters). The tactics and technology of Allied escort fighters evolved quickly though the war years, as they did for the defending German fighters. For the Allied airmen who fought this war the price was frighteningly high, for those who opposed them - in the air and on the ground - it was even higher.
As the bombing increased, Nazi high command was forced to devote more and more resources to try and defeat the Allied campaign, just when those same resources were desperately needed elsewhere, both on the Russian Front and, after D-Day on 6 June 1944, on the new Western Front. Written from the 'other side' and told as much as possible through the words of the veterans, this is an important book on one of the most controversial campaigns of the Second World War.
As the bombing increased, Nazi high command was forced to devote more and more resources to try and defeat the Allied campaign, just when those same resources were desperately needed elsewhere, both on the Russian Front and, after D-Day on 6 June 1944, on the new Western Front. Written from the 'other side' and told as much as possible through the words of the veterans, this is an important book on one of the most controversial campaigns of the Second World War.
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Germany entered the Second World War with its Luftwaffe in control of its skies; Air Marshal Hermann Goering thought its cities were invulnerable to bombing. Drawing on the recollections of German airmen and civilians, this account tells how, from 1942, the tide was turned by the arrival of US Flying Fortresses and the Lancasters of Arthur Harris’ Bomber Command, which would reduce Hamburg, Dresden and Berlin to rubble.
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