The RAF's Road to D-Day: The Struggle to Exploit Air Superiority, 1943-1944

By the summer of 1943, the Third Reich’s fate seemed sealed. The combined might of Britain and the Commonwealth nations, the United States and the Soviet Union had made a Germany victory impossible. All that remained to decide was how the Allies should complete their victory. Would strategic bombing decide the outcome or would ground and air forces working together play the more significant role?

Greg Baughen follows the air and land battles in Italy, France and Germany between 1943 and earl...