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Bomber Command This book is a very good read.It gives very detailed accounts of how the bombing offensive of the RAF was created.It also exonerates Harris from the blame he and his crews were shouldered with during and after the war.The bravery of the crews in the RAF is brilliantly shown amongst these pages.Even though the stupidity of the Politicians of the day and some of the RAF's Command structure is highlighted as being narrow minded and short sighted. Their stupidity being paid for with the lives of the crews who... more info
You Reap what you Sow. This a book about strategy, not really the technical details of aircraft, or even the weapons they carried. As for an appreaisal of strategy, however, it really goes deep, yet misses some of the broader aspects.
From the start you see that Bomber command was an impotenmt force, with an unworkable idealism to fighting such a war as WW2. Later we find that Bomber Command had grown to be so powerful that its commanders were in awe and had no real idea how to use such power properly. The book is really... more info
History brought to life This a truly excellent book written by a man with that rare combination of historian and writer. So many historians just cannot bring a story to life but Max Hastings is an exception. I found the book more of a page turner than the thriller 'Da Vinci Code' which is written by someone who is neither writer nor historian. Bomber Command is a dispassionate appraisal of its value to the Allied victory in WW2.
painful and pitiful account of the airwar Max Hastings has delivered both a factual and moving account of what the war did to the RAF as well as what the RAF did to the war. The anecodotes are well placed and well observed eg the bomber crew which got lost in an electrical storm and bombed London by mistake. The bravery of the men involved in the whole bomber war is too often forgotten. I disagree with some of his doubts about what they/we did. That does not detract from the achievement of Max Hastings book.
