Battle of Berlin (eBook)

Bomber Command Over the Third Reich, 1943-1945

Martin W. Bowman (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
714 Seiten
Air World (Verlag)
978-1-5267-8639-5 (ISBN)

Infos

"e;A fascinating look into the aircrews used and the effect on those who had to live through this constant bombing"e; by the RAF during World War II (UK Historian). Berlin was bombed by four Allied air forces between 1940 and 1945. British bombers alone dropped 45,517 tons of bombs, while the Americans a further 23,000 tons. By 1944, some 1.2 million people, 790,000 of them women and children, about a quarter of Berlin's population, had been evacuated to rural areas. An effort was made to evacuate all children from Berlin, but this was defeated by parents and many evacuees who soon made their way back to the city. However, by May 1945, 1.7 million people 40% of the population had fled the city. This fitting tribute to those who died in the relentless struggle to knock Berlin, and hopefully Germany, out of the war resonates with eyewitness accounts and background information which the author has painstakingly investigated and researched. The result is a hugely fascinating and highly readable narrative containing very real and unique observations by British and Commonwealth aircrew and, equally importantly, the long-suffering citizens of Berlin, and well as the capital's defenders. Though not a defeat in absolute terms, in the operational sense The Battle of Berlin was an offensive that Air Marshal Sir Arthur Harris and his aircrews could not win. "e;Berlin won"e; concluded Sir Ralph Cochrane, the Air Officer Commanding 5 Group RAF Bomber Command. "e;It was just too tough a nut."e;"e;An impressively informative, deftly written, exceptionally well documented, and expertly organized history . . . a seminal work of original scholarship."e; Midwest Book Review

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.7.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• ISBN-10: 1-5267-8639-7 / 1526786397
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5267-8639-5 / 9781526786395