Book description
Bomber Command's offensive against the cities of Germany was one of the
epic campaigns of the Second World War. More than 56,000 British and
Commonwealth aircrew and 600,000 Germans died in the course of the RAF's
attempt to win the war by bombing. The struggle began in 1939 with a few
score primitive Whitleys, Hampdens and Wellingtons, and ended six years
later with 1,600 Lancasters, Halifaxes and Mosquitoes razing whole
cities in a single night. Max Hastings traced the developments of area
bombing using a wealth of documnets, letters, diaries and interviews
with key surviving witnesses. Bomber Command is his classic account of
one of the most controversial struggles of the war.
Max Hastings was editor and editor-in-chief of the
Daily Telegraph in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In 1996 he
became editor of the Evening Standard. He has won many awards
for his journalism, including Journalist of The Year and What the
Papers Say Reporter of the Year for his work in the South Atlantic in
1982, and Editor of the Year in 1988. He is the author of 16 books,
two of which were named as Yorkshire Post Books of the Year and
one of which won the Somerset Maugham Prize.
