WW2 Interest Bomber Offensive By Marshal Of The RAF Sir Arthur Harris

For sale is a WW2 Interest Bomber Offensive By Marshal Of The RAF Sir Arthur Harris Hard Back with original Dust cover. This book is a 1st Editition and was published in 1947.

  A little bit about this book can be found below:   “BOMBER OFFENSIvE is the first important book about the war to be written by any of our Service chiefs. It is of historical value as a war document and of personal interest as the memoirs of an outstanding man. As Commander-in-Chief Bomber Command, Sir Arthur Harris was responsible for directing the policy of a bomber offensive, and his views on the controversial questions-whether the results of this were worth the expenditure of lives and materials or whether area bombing was morally justifiable will be read with universal interest. A feature of the book is the author's numerous reports of conversations with Mr. Churchill, Field-Marshal Smuts and other leading men, which took place at critical moments during the war. From 1939 Sir Arthur Harris was confident in Bomber Command as a potentially decisive weapon, and he now recounts the very complete story of how, from a nucleus of untrained men and obsolete machines, was built up the awe-inspiring force which could carry out the 1000-bomber raids. He tells of the lessons learned from German bombing; of what was achieved during the year of preparation and experiment before the main attack began in March 1943; of the success of particular operations such as the destruction of the Mohne and Eder dams, and of the bombing of Berlin. Finally, he is able to tell Of the actual results' discovered since the end of the war, and how far we were right in our estimates of the effect of air attack. In a last chapter ' Bomber ' Harris looks to the future, discussing the atomic bomb and the scope of Service responsibility in a scientific war.”   This is in good condition and a very interesting read.    This will be sent via Royal Mail 1st class signed for and dispatched within two working days.