Bomber Command

This history examines the Royal Air Force's Bomber Command in the Second World War: the pre-war doctrine of strategic bombing, the early costly raids, the area campaign against German cities under Arthur Harris, and the later precision and oil offensives. Hastings follows crews in training and over the Ruhr and Berlin, and the staff arguments in London about whether the offensive could break German industry or morale. He sets operational narrative beside the experience of German civilians and the question of what the campaign achieved relative to its losses. The book is military history with a running assessment of policy, not a memoir of a single squadron.

Quarter-bound in black cloth blocked with a yellow and white pattern printed front board. Title blocked slipcase.