The Berlin Raids: The Bomber Battle, Winter 1943-1944

The Berlin Raids tells the controversial story of the RAT Bomber Command's most prolonged campaign in the Second World War. Their Commander-in-Chief, Sir Arthur 'Bomber' Harris, set out to 'wreck Berlin from end to end' and 'produce a state of devastation in which German surrender is inevitable. To these ends more than 10,000 aircraft dropped over 30,000 tons of bombs during nineteen major raids between August 1943 and March 1944. But Berlin was not destroyed and the RAF lost more than 600 ...