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Author Overy, R. J.

Title The bombers and the bombed : Allied air war over Europe 1940-1945 / Richard Overy.

Publication Info. New York : Viking, [2013]
©2013

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Location Call No. Status
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  940.54 OVE    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  940.54 OV2    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  940.544 OVERY    Check Shelf
Description xxviii, 562 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary A history of the Allied bombing campaigns of World War II questions the morality of British and American attacks on occupied European cities while offering insight into the course of the civilian front line of the Allied air war as it was shaped by political strategies.
Contents Prologue: Bombing Bulgaria -- The sorcerer's apprentice: Bomber Command 1939-42 -- The Casablanca Offensive: the Allies over Germany 1943-4 -- The "Battle of Germany", 1944-5 -- 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 post-war world.
Subject World War (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01180924
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, Allied.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Europe -- Aerial operations, Allied.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, Allied -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Bombing, Aerial -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
Bombing, Aerial -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
Civil defense -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
Bombing, Aerial -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
Bombing, Aerial -- Europe -- Public opinion.
Public opinion -- Europe.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Europe.
Bombing, Aerial. (OCoLC)fst00835808
Civil defense -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00862475
Public opinion. (OCoLC)fst01082785
Europe. (OCoLC)fst01245064
Germany. (OCoLC)fst01210272
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Title Bombing war
Allied air war over Europe 1940-1945
ISBN 9780670025152 (hardcover)
0670025151 (hardcover)
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