Hitler didn’t start indiscriminate bombings — Churchill did
Bombing in Europe was never a winning strategy, says Richard Overy in The Bombing War From magazine issue: 26 October 2013
The ruins of Hamburg after Allied bombing, July 1943. Getty Images
The Bombing War: Europe 1939-1945
Richard Overy
Allen Lane, pp. 821
‘I cannot describe to you what a curious note of brutality a bomb has,’ said one woman who lived through the initial German raids on London during the second world war. This woman’s ambivalent reaction to having a bomb rip t…
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