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Fire and Fury by Randall Hansen Allied bombing Germany 1942-45 w/dust jacket
Fire and Fury by Randall Hansen
Hard cover with dust jacket
Copyright 2008
The Allied bombing of Germany 1942-1945
CONTENTS
Prefaceix
1. The day Hamburg died3
2. The Blitz: Bombing civilians and destroying houses
3. Bomber Harris takes over
4. The Americans
5. Building the mighty Eighth
6. Burn, Germany, burn
7. Killing the Boche
8. Cologne
9. Goring and Speer
10. Churchill, Roosevelt, and the future of bombing
11. The Ruhr
12. Busting dams
13. England, July 27, 1943: "Let us open the window"
14. To destroy Hamburg
15. Under the bombs117
16. Speer's nightmare123
17. The Battle of Berlin141
18. What the British knew153
19. Taking out the Luftwaffe169
20. Germany's Achilles' heel179
21. Oil and baby killing189
22. Harris's and Spaatz's orders207
23. Portal pleads229
24. Speer despairs, Harris threatens, Portal blinks241
25. American area bombing247
26. A crescendo of destruction259
27. Doubts269
28. As the last bombs fell273
29. Conclusion279
Acknowledgments299
Notes301
Selected Bibliography329
Index339
When does war end...and slaughter begin?
That is the question that drives this
compelling reexamination of the Allied
aerial bombing campaign and the suffering
of German civilians during World War II.
During the Second World War, American and British air forces dropped nearly two million tons of bombs on Germany, destroying some sixty cities, killing more than half a million German citizens, and leaving eighty thousand aircrew dead.
For decades, observers have minimized the difference between the two campaigns, according equal responsibility to the Americans and the British. In this controversial study, acclaimed historian Randall Hansen shows that painting the American and British campaigns with the same brush is both unfair and historically inaccurate.
The terrible truth is that most of the British bombing was carried out against the expressed demands of the Allied military leadership, leading to the needless deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians and prolonging the war.
By contrast, American precision bombing almost brought the Germans to their knees. Throughout the war, the U.S. campaign was infused with a particularly American fusion of determination, optimism, and moralityand played an integral and largely unrecognized role in securing Allied victory in the skies over Europe.
Here, for the first time, the story of the American ind British air campaigns is toldand the cost accounted forfrom all angles: political, nilitary, and civilian. Above all, Hansen's book .eminds usat a time of uncertainty about U.S. nterventions abroadof the basic idealism and Tinciple that underpin the history of U.S. military ower.
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