Название: The Bombing War: Europe 1939-1945Автор: Richard Overy
Издательство: Allen Lane
Год: 2013
Формат: pdf, epub
Страниц: 959
Размер: 16,37 Мб
Язык: английский
This is the ultimate history of the Blitz and bombing in the Second World War, from Wolfson Prize-winning historian and author Richard Overy. The use of massive fleets of bombers to kill and terrorize civilians was an aspect of the Second World War which continues to challenge the idea that Allies specifically fought a ’moral’ war. For Britain, bombing became perhaps its principal contribution to the fighting as, night after night, exceptionally brave men flew over occupied Europe destroying its cities. The Bombing War radically overhauls our understanding of the War...