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The Schweinfurt-Regensburg Mission: American Raids on 17th August 1943 (Cassell Military Paperbacks)
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Product Description
In the MILITARY PAPERBACKS series, this carefully researched and narrative account, first published in 1995, of the disastrous American bomber daylight raid on the industrial centres of Schweinfurt and Regensburg in August 1943 is based on eyewitness accounts of survivors from both sides.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #342664 in Books
- Published on: 2000-07-06
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 368 pages
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Following his first book, The First Day on the Somme, Martin Middlebrook has published a series of books on major turning points in the two World Wars - all classics of military history.
Customer Reviews
Masterful Account of critical US bombing missions to Germany
Martin Middlebrook is undoubtedly the most accessible military historian writing about the strategically significant and subsequently highly controversial Allied strategic bombing campaign over Nazi Germany. In this volume he deploys his customary mix of detailed archival research, interviews with participants, and critical analysis to examine with his usual fluent style, the American daylight bombing raids over the vital German ball bearing and aero works in Schweinfurt and Regensburg. This was a crucial test of the USAAF doctrine that unescorted bomber groups could operate at long range and effectively precision bomb high-value strategic targets. Middlebrook not only provides a detailed and gripping blow by blow account of the raids themselves but also sets them in the context of the wider strategic and tactical debates about the use of airpower as the principal war winning weapon. Erudite, exciting and insightful, this is military history of the highest order appealing to both serious student and general reader alike. Once you've read this one, you'll probably want to go on and buy the set.
Excellent
As ever Martin Middlebrook provides an engaging, fantastically detailed and novel insight into this important event. Debunking some of the oft-repeated myths that have grown up around this mission he tells the story logically and with great sympathy and compassion.
A worthwhile adjunct to his excellent work on RAF Bomber Command's war.
