Royal Air Force, 1939-1945

Richards, Denis

H.M.S.O.

This three-volume work, presented in a slip-case, provides the official World War II history of RAF operations and the policy which governed them. Subjects covered include the Battle of Britain and the Blitz; the U-boat war and anti-shipping operations; and victory in Burma and the Far East.

Royal Air Force 1939-1945 Three Volume Set

History

World

HMSO

RAF Bomber Command in the Second World War dramatically recreates the gruesome and protracted battle fought for over five years in the night skies, in which over half the aircrew became casualties.

RAF Bomber Command in the Second World War: The Hardest Victory

Military

Penguin Uk

THE HARDEST VICTORY - RAF Bomber Command in the Second World War.

Europe

W.W.Norton&Company

The Hardest Victory: RAF Bomber Command in the Second World War

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

Fifty years after the historic air battle between Germany and Great Britain, two historians collaborate to bring the battle to life again in an account of the turning point of World War II

The Battle of Britain: The Greatest Air Battle of World War II

Hough, Richard Alexander

The work of the RAF Bomber Command in the Second World War has come under fire from a whole generation of historians since the 1960s. They claim that the RAF offensive against Germany was immoral, because so many civilians were killed. And wasteful, because so many of the attacks were not aimed at specific military targets. In this new book Denis Richards describes the Command's difficulties and failures, but redresses the balance by making clear the magnitude of the Bomber Command's achievement. The narrative moves forward on a broad front. The operations and their results are seen against the wider background of the policies and personalities involved, the overall organization, the intelligence sources, and the technical developments. The story proceeds from the leaflet raids in the early months of the war and the attacks on the German fleet in 1939, through the disasters of the occupation of Norway and the fall of France, to the Command's role in the triumph of the Battle of Britain. Then comes the gradual adoption of "area bombing" leading to the "Thousand" raids of 1942 and the great "Battles" of 1943 - the crushing blows against German oil and transportation and the German fleet. Stressing the great contribution made by Dominion and Allied air crews and the essential interdependence of the British and American air operations, and drawing on his correspondence with some 200 surviving aircrew and groundcrew, Richards offers fresh insights into the human element in the long and bloody business of bombing Britain's enemies. His account of the Bomber Command's achievement provides a revised interpretation of the battle fought virtually every night for almost five and a half years. The total casualty-roll, including the wounded, amounted to more than one in the two men who flew with the Bomber Command: truly it was "The Hardest Victory."

Offspring of the Vic

Originally published in 1958.The history of Morley College provides an illuminating case-history of the growth and spread of adult education in the second half of the nineteenth and early years of the twentieth centuries. Morley College is unique in that it was one of the first of such institutions to proclaim and inculcate absolute sex and class equality. It has always been guided by democratic principles in the sense that the students have been encouraged to play a definite part in the administration of the college – an ethos which continues to this day.

Offspring of the Vic: A History of Morley College

Reference

Routledge

Portal of Hungerford: The life of Marshal of the Royal Air Force, Viscount Portal of Hungerford, KG, GCB, OM, DSO, MC

Heinemann

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