The Battle of Hamburg
Author | : Martin Middlebrook |
Publisher | : Macmillan Reference USA |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Martin Middlebrook |
Publisher | : Macmillan Reference USA |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Martin Middlebrook |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Hamburg (Germany) |
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Author | : Richard Worrall |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2024-04-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1472859308 |
The first book to cover the full history of the RAF's air war against Hamburg, one of the most important target cities in Germany. The city of Hamburg became synonymous with the destructive power of RAF Bomber Command when, during summer 1943, the city suffered horrific destruction in a series of four heavy firebombing attacks, Operation Gomorrah. However, few know how varied or long the Hamburg campaign was. In this book, RAF air power expert Dr Richard Worrall presents the complete history of the RAF's air campaign against the city, a campaign that stretched well beyond the devastating fire raids of 1943. Dr Worrall explains how Germany's second city was an industrial centre of immense proportions and proved a consistent target for Bomber Command throughout World War II. It was home to oil refineries, U-boat pens, and ship-building and submarine-building yards, all sustained by a large industrial workforce. Bomber Command evolved tactically and technically throughout the war, and the Luftwaffe's defensive capabilities would do likewise in response. Drawing on a wide range of primary and secondary sources available on this topic, and packed with photos, artwork, maps and diagrams, this is an important new history of the air campaign against the industrial and naval heart of Nazi Germany.
Author | : Keith Lowe |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 449 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0743269004 |
Draws on previously unseen official documents and eyewitness testimonies to document the bombing of Hamburg by U.S. and British forces during World War II, an event that cost 45,000 lives, set hurricane-force fires that lasted for a month, and rendered one million people homeless. 35,000 first printing.
Author | : Randall Hansen |
Publisher | : Anchor Canada |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2009-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307372383 |
National Bestseller An enlightening and utterly convincing re-examination of the allied aerial bombing campaign and of civilian German suffering during World War II–an essential addition to our understanding of world history. During the Second World War, Allied air forces dropped nearly two million tons of bombs on Germany, destroying some 60 cities, killing more than half a million German citizens, and leaving 80,000 pilots dead. Much of the bombing was carried out against the expressed demands of the Allied military leadership. Hundreds of thousands of people died needlessly. Focusing on the crucial period from 1942 to 1945, and using a compelling narrative approach, Fire and Fury tells the story of the American and British bombing campaign through the eyes of those involved: military and civilian command in America, Britain, and Germany, aircrew in the sky, and civilians on the ground. Acclaimed historian Randall Hansen shows that the Commander-in-Chief of Bomber Command, Arthur Harris, was wedded to an outdated strategy whose success had never been proven; how area bombing not only failed to win the war, it probably prolonged it; and that the US campaign, which was driven by a particularly American fusion of optimism and morality, played an important and largely unrecognized role in delivering Allied victory.
Author | : Martin Middlebrook |
Publisher | : Pen & Sword Military |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2021-12-30 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781399013512 |
In July 1943 a series of heavy bombing raids virtually destroyed the North German city of Hamburg. In one night alone, some 40,000 people were killed largely as a result of the terrible firestorm. To this day controversy rages as to the morality of these attacks and their consequences. With his trademark thoroughness Martin Middlebrook has delved deep into the archives to uncover the facts. As ever he draws on copious eyewitnesses and participants a total of 547 British, American, and German. The testimonies of the Hamburg survivors are particularly revealing and harrowing providing a first hand description of what it was like to be subjected to prolonged and intense air attack. Paradoxically while Hamburg was arguably Bomber Command's greatest achievement it remains its - and Air Marshal Harris - most criticized. Often overlooked was the USAAFs role and this together with the contribution to the failure of German air defenses of a new device, Window, are fully covered. Firestorm Hamburg is a masterly description of a major air campaign and the author's aim of achieving a better understanding of the background, conduct, and results is fully realized. He does not shirk from studying the moral dilemma.
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Release | : 1984 |
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Author | : V. E. Tarrant |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Jutland, Battle of, 1916 |
ISBN | : 9781860199172 |
This unique account of the Jutland story is the first to deal exclusively and in depth with the German perspective of the battle which took place on 31 May to 1 June 1916. The author has used a wealth of original untapped source material on German views and accounts. Illustrated with detailed action charts representing ship movements, together with accurate scale drawings and silhouettes of all major warships and classes from both sides, this book fills an important gap in the history and understanding of this great action.
Author | : Keith Lowe |
Publisher | : Penguin Group |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Hamburg (Germany) |
ISBN | : 9780241964248 |
This text tells the horrific story of the firebombing of Hamburg in 1943 that left the city in ruins, told by the people who dropped the bombs and those who were there.
Author | : Richard Worrall |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 97 |
Release | : 2024-04-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1472859286 |
The first book to cover the full history of the RAF's air war against Hamburg, one of the most important target cities in Germany. The city of Hamburg became synonymous with the destructive power of RAF Bomber Command when, during summer 1943, the city suffered horrific destruction in a series of four heavy firebombing attacks, Operation Gomorrah. However, few know how varied or long the Hamburg campaign was. In this book, RAF air power expert Dr Richard Worrall presents the complete history of the RAF's air campaign against the city, a campaign that stretched well beyond the devastating fire raids of 1943. Dr Worrall explains how Germany's second city was an industrial centre of immense proportions and proved a consistent target for Bomber Command throughout World War II. It was home to oil refineries, U-boat pens, and ship-building and submarine-building yards, all sustained by a large industrial workforce. Bomber Command evolved tactically and technically throughout the war, and the Luftwaffe's defensive capabilities would do likewise in response. Drawing on a wide range of primary and secondary sources available on this topic, and packed with photos, artwork, maps and diagrams, this is an important new history of the air campaign against the industrial and naval heart of Nazi Germany.