eBook Reaching for the Stars: A New History of Bomber Command in World War II epub

Mark Connelly is a professor and former Head of the School of History, at the University of Kent in Canterbury . Tauris, December 2000; 2014).

Mark Connelly is a professor and former Head of the School of History, at the University of Kent in Canterbury, where he is both a military historian, and the Reuters Lecturer in Media History He took his PhD at Queen Mary & Westfield College.

The British Bomber Command logged 55,000 of its own dead before the war's end, and had killed over 500,000 German civilians and destroyed . 7 million houses in the process.

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The role of Bomber Command in the Second World War is still shrouded in mystery. This book provides a new story of the campaign and is both a military history and an investigation as to how the modern image has come about. Read this book to get a modern and to my mind as someone who lived through the German equivalent, acceptable, view of Harris and the efficacy of bombing.

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Although the bomber received high praise from news outlets and popular film during the war, the book reveals how postwar coverage of the command sprouted resistance, dissension, and even shame in the minds of some people regarding the implementation of this strategic weapon's awesome power as it laid waste to Dresden in 1945.

This book provides a new story of the campaign and is both a military history and an investigation as to how the modern image has come about. Mark Connelly draws together all the strands to look at the image created by this outpouring.