Fire and Fury : The Allied Bombing of Germany, 1942-1945

from GeoKaras

Good description of the campaign and exploration of the bombing controversy over area vs. precision targets. Worth reading, if only for the extensive presentation of the correspondence between Portal and Harris. Portal, despite being the superior officer cannot budge Harris off of area bombing. H...

from bruchu

We'll Bomb them into the Stone Age It's one of the big philosophical questions of the twentieth century given the totality of destruction WWII had on humanity. In "Fire and Fury," scholar and professor Randall Hansen explores the ethical dimension of the use of area bombing by both the axis and t...

from quizshow77

Randall Hansen writes clearly and vividly, describing the British and American bombing campaigns against Germany in World War II. The plural in the previous sentence is one of his points: that the British and Americans conducted two separate and uncoordinated strategic bombing campaigns against G...