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The ultimate history of the Allied bombing campaigns in World War II Technology shapes the nature of all wars, and the Second World War hinged on a most unpredictable weapon: the bomb. Night after night, Britain and the United States unleashed massive fleets of bombers to kill and terrorize occupied Europe, destroying its cities. The grisly consequences call into question how moral a war the Allies fought. The Bombers and the Bombed radically overhauls our understanding of World War II. It pairs the story of the civilian front line in the Allied air war alongside the political context that shaped their strategic bombing campaigns, examining the responses to bombing and being bombed with renewed clarity. The first book to examine seriously not only the well-known attacks on Dresden and Hamburg but also the significance of the firebombing on other fronts, including Italy, where the crisis was far more severe than anything experienced in ...;Prologue: Bombing Bulgaria -- The sorcerers apprentice: Bomber Command 1939-42 -- The Casablanca Offensive: the Allies over Germany 1943-4 -- The Battle of Germany, 1944-5 -- The logic of total war: German society under the bombs -- Italy: The war of bombs and words -- Bombing friends, bombing enemies: Germanys new order -- Epilogue: Lessons learned and not learned: bombing into the post-war world.

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THE BOMBERS AND THE BOMBED

Richard Overy is a professor at the University of Exeter, UK. A leading expert in World War II history, he has written and edited more than thirty books, including Why the Allies Won, Russias War, and The Twilight Years. In 2001 he was awarded the Samuel Eliot Morison Prize of the Society for Military History. In 2010 he won the Doolittle Award from MIT for his lifetime contribution to aviation history. He is a fellow of the British Academy and a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Praise for Richard Overys The Bombers and the Bombed

There will be debate over the bombing campaign in Europe for years to come.... In the future, though, that debate will have to take into account the facts and the arguments marshaled by Overy in The Bombers and the Bombed, which immediately becomes an essential part of the literature of World War II. The conclusions it reaches about strategic bombing will have to be reckoned with by any nation that takes it upon itself to bomb another into submission, if not oblivion, and anyone who takes those conclusions seriously will be hard-pressed to argue the efficacy of that strategy.

Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post

Magnificent... The Bombers and the Bombed is exhaustively researched, well written, and definitive. This welcome volume will be of interest to any reader who wants a detailed overview of the Allied bombing campaign.

The Christian Science Monitor

Painstakingly researched and clearly written, this excellent book will interest both experts and readers seeking an introduction to its analytically and morally complex subject.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer

First comprehensive analysis of the Allied strategic bombing offensive in Europe.

Publishers Weekly

Overy delivers an insightful analysis of how all nations reversed their abhorrence of killing civilians when it became unavoidable. Overy provides an eye-opening and often distressing account.... For a far more expansive view that includes those on the receiving end [of the bombing], Overy is the choice.

Kirkus Reviews

Superb... Overy has presented a very strong case in support of his view.

Booklist

Magnificent... Must now be regarded as the standard work on the bombing war... It is probably the most important book published on the history of the Second World War this century.

The Guardian (London)

This tremendous book does what the war it describes signally failed to do. With a well-thought-out strategy and precision, it delivers maximum force on its objectives.... The result is a masterpiece of the historians art.

The Times (London)

It is unlikely that a work of this scale, scope, and merit will be surpassed.

Times Higher Education (London)

What distinguishes Mr. Overys account of the bombing war from lesser efforts is the wealth of narrative detail and analytical rigor that he brings to bear.

The Economist

Hard to surpass. If you want to know how bombing worked, what it did, and what it meant, this is the book to read.

The Times Literary Supplement (London)

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First published in Great Britain as The Bombing War: Europe 19391945 by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd. 2013

First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, 2014

Published in Penguin Books 2015

Copyright 2013 by Richard Overy

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from Collected Poems by John Betjeman. Copyright 1955, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1968, 1970, 1979, 1981, 1982, 2001 the Estate of John Betjeman. Reprinted by permission of John Murray (Publishers).

Excerpts from Englands Hour by Vera Brittain. Reprinted by permission of Mark Bostridge and T. J. Brittain-Catlin, literary executors of the estate of Vera Brittain, 1970.

Illustrations are courtesy of the RAF Museum, Hendon (). I am grateful to all the archives involved for kind permission to reproduce these images.

THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS HAS CATALOGED THE HARDCOVER EDITION AS FOLLOWS:

Overy, R. J.

The bombers and the bombed : Allied air war over Europe, 19401945 / Richard Overy.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-698-15138-3

1. World War, 19391945Aerial operations, Allied. 2. World War, 19391945EuropeAerial operations, Allied. 3. World War, 19391945Aerial operations, AlliedMoral and ethical aspects. 4. Bombing, AerialEuropeHistory20th century. 5. Bombing, AerialSocial aspectsEuropeHistory20th century. 6. Civil defenseSocial aspectsEuropeHistory20th century. 7. Bombing, AerialGermanyHistory20th century. 8. Bombing, AerialEurope Public opinion. 9. Public opinionEurope. 10. World War, 19391945Europe. I. Title. II. Title: Allied air war over Europe 19401945.

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Cover design: Jason Gabbert

Cover photograph: Berlin, East Germany, September 1, 1948, Popperfoto/Getty Images

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Oh bountiful Gods of the air! Oh Science and Progress!

You great big wonderful world! Oh what have you done?

John Betjeman, 1940

CONTENTS
PREFACE

Between 1939 and 1945 hundreds of European cities and hundreds more small townships and villages were subjected to aerial bombing. During the course of the conflict a staggering estimate of around 600,000 European civilians were killed by bomb attack and well over a million more were seriously injured, in some cases physically or mentally disabled for life. The landscape of much of Europe was temporarily transformed into a vision of ruin as complete as the dismal relics of the once triumphant Roman Empire. To anyone wandering through the devastated urban wastelands immediately after the end of the war, the most obvious question to ask was: How could this ever have been agreed to? Then a second thought: How would Europe ever recover?

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