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Description of  The Bombers and The Bombed: Allied Air War over Europe 1940-1945

Between 1939 and 1945, hundreds of European cities, towns and villages were devastated by aerial bombing around 600,000 Europeans were killed and more than a million injured. In this first full narrative history of the air war, Overy deals with the whole of Europe, Scandinavia and the USSR he considers bombing as part of broader strategies and he looks at the campaigns from two perspectives: what they were meant to achieve and the impact they had in reality on bombed populations. Read more