 Battles
With the Luftwaffe, The Bomber Campaign Against Germany 1942-45
Authors: Theo Boiten & Martin Bowman
Harper Collins Publishers
ISBN 0-00-711363-3
Sale Price: $15.00
I periodically haunt the sales tables at the local Barnes & Nobles
Book store. This time I found this new hard-bound book on the sale table
there.
The book is 9' x 11.5" format and 236 pages long.
It is a collection of first-hand accounts from WWII veteran air crews,
that offer fresh looks at the daily air war that raged over Europe from
1942 to 1945. It retraces not only the course of events of the war years
as experienced by both Allied and Axis pilots, but also offers vivid descriptions
of weaponry, aircraft and tactical developments during the extensive bombing
campaign against Germany.
It is heavily illustrated with some 300 black and white photos, many
of which have never been published before. The book is a fascinating account
of the realities of air-combat during World War II and well worth the
relative few bucks.
I found the short biographies of the pilots interesting (some I had
never heard of before) and there is numerous nose arts for Allied aircraft
I had not seen before either.
Highly recommended.
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