A devastating account of the RAF’s bomber offensive against Germany in 1943 based on hundreds of interviews with veteran survivors. Includes the Dambusters raid and the Hamburg firestorm.

‘They have sown the wind and will reap the whirlwind’ said Sir Arthur ‘Bomber’ Harris as the Germans battered Britain in the 1941 Blitz. It took a couple of years for Bomber Command to hit back on the same scale, but when they did - as this book tells - the German cities that they bombed certainly experinced a whirlwind of retribution. But the battle was by no means one-sided. The RAF faced not only the Luftwaffe but a hurricane of Flak from the well prepared German ground defences, not to mention the hazards of bad weather and all too frequent mechanical malfunction. The toll was a fearsome one, worse than that of a First World War subaltern in the trenches, and it was a lucky airman who successfully completed a tour of duty. Kevin WIlson has interviewed hundreds of survivors of the Bombing offensive for his exciting but sobering book, including the fabled Dambusters, and his readers experience their authentic whiff of fear, and the mixture of pride in a job well done coupled with awe at the devastation they were inflicting. A gripping and comprehensive report from a world at war.

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Product Code:	10543
Author:	Kevin Wilson
Format:	207pp, b/w photographs, hb. Published Price £25.00
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