Reaching for the stars : a history of Bomber Command
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Reaching for the stars : a history of Bomber Command
I.B. Tauris, 2014
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-194) and index
"New paperback edition published in 2014 ... First published in hardback in 2001"--T.p. verso
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Description
The role of Bomber Command in the Second World War is still shrouded in mystery. This book provides a new story of the campaign and is both a military history and an investigation as to how the modern image has come about. There have been hundreds of books about the RAF and Bomber Command ranging from highly researched histories, technical studies of the aircraft, to popular works; as well as countless films, television shows and newspaper reportage. Mark Connelly draws together all the strands to look at the image created by this outpouring. Reaching for the Stars shows why Bomber Command, in one of the largest and bloodiest campaigns of the war - with 55,000 aircrew lost and more officer fatalities than in World War I - has received so much attention yet is still a 'lost and black sheep' among British wartime glories.
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Contents
Acknowledgements vii
Preface to the New Paperback Introduction viii
Chapter One: Hoping the Bomber will always get through 5
Chapter Two: The Lion Tries His Wings, September 1939-February 17
Chapter Three: Committing Britain to a Bomber War,
February 1941 - Spring 1942 38
Chapter Four: Unleashing the Whirlwind, February 1942-August 1943 63
Chapter Five: Berlin, 'the Big City' 105
Chapter Six: Achieving Victory, Spring 1944-May 1945 122
Chapter Seven: Remembering and Misremembering, 1945-1999 138
Conclusion 159
Appendix A: Bomber Command and the War Artists Scheme 165
Appendix B: Journey Together (1945) and The Way to the Stars (1945) 167
Chronology Bomber Command 169
Notes 176
Bibliographical Notes 186
Index 196
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