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The Bombers and the Bombed : : Allied air war Over Europe, 1940-1945

Overy, R. J. Book - 2014 940.544 Ov 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 1 out of 5

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Prologue: Bombing Bulgaria -- The sorcerer's apprentice: Bomber Command, 1939-42 -- The Casablanca Offensive: the Allies over Germany, 1943-44 -- The "Battle of Germany", 1944-45 -- The logic of total war: German society under the bombs -- Italy: The war of bombs and words -- Bombing friends, bombing enemies: Germany's new order -- Epilogue: Lessons learned and not learned: bombing into the postwar world.

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Boring - incredibly boring submitted by GJBarnett2 on November 22, 2014, 6:16pm If you've gotten as far as reading this, the subject of this book must be of some interest to you, as it was to me. And yet this may be literally, and with no exaggeration, the dullest most boring book on this subject or anything connected with WWII that I have ever read. I say "read" with some hyperbole because I set this one down less than ten pages in. Of all the way to grab the attention of a reader who might be expected to bring some interest to the subject, the author chose to begin with an analysis of the bombing of Bulgaria. And apparently for no better reason than that the general configuration of the modern aerial bomb, "with its distinctive elongated shape, stabilizing fins and nose-fitted detonator" was the invention of a Bulgarian officer in 1912. And this was, evidently, the most interesting anecdote the author could call to mind to begin a book about "Allied Air War Over Europe, 1940-1945." How any editor in his (or her) right mind could sign-off on this completely escapes me. I'm sure there was more of interest buried in the almost 500 pages of text but it just wasn't worth the time taken out of my life to wade through this.