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Fire and fury : the Allied bombing of Germany, 1942-1945
Hansen, Randall
Adult Nonfiction D786 .H277 2009
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| Contents | Page |
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| Preface | p. ix |
| 1 - The day Hamburg died | p. 3 |
| 2 - The Blitz: Bombing civilians and destroying houses | p. 17 |
| 3 - Bomber Harris takes over | p. 27 |
| 4 - The Americans | p. 33 |
| 5 - Building the mighty Eighth | p. 41 |
| 6 - Burn, Germany, burn | p. 51 |
| 7 - Killing the Boche | p. 63 |
| 8 - Cologne | p. 69 |
| 9 - Goring and Speer | p. 73 |
| 10 - Churchill, Roosevelt, and the future of bombing | p. 83 |
| 11 - The Ruhr | p. 91 |
| 12 - Busting dams | p. 95 |
| 13 - England, July 27, 1943: "Let us open the window" | p. 105 |
| 14 - To destroy Hamburg | p. 109 |
| 15 - Under the bombs | p. 117 |
| 16 - Speer's nightmare | p. 123 |
| 17 - The Battle of Berlin | p. 141 |
| 18 - What the British knew | p. 153 |
| 19 - Taking out the Luftwaffe | p. 169 |
| 20 - Germany's Achilles' heel | p. 179 |
| 21 - Oil and baby killing | p. 189 |
| 22 - Harris's and Spaatz's orders | p. 207 |
| 23 - Portal pleads | p. 229 |
| 24 - Speer despairs, Harris threatens, Portal blinks | p. 241 |
| 25 - American area bombing | p. 247 |
| 26 - A crescendo of destruction | p. 259 |
| 27 - Doubts | p. 269 |
| 28 - As the last bombs fell | p. 273 |
| 29 - Conclusion | p. 279 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 299 |
| Notes | p. 301 |
| Selected Bibliography | p. 329 |
| Index | p. 339 |
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