Target Berlin - Mission 250. 6th March 1944
Price Alfred Dr., Ethell Jeffrey
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Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Arms And Armour Press
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 1981
Edition: First Edition
Description: 212 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout.
Publishers Description: On March 6th, 1944 the Americans launched their first large-scale daylight raid on Berlin, the capital of Hitlers reich. The price they paid for their audacity was sixty-nine heavy bombers and eleven escort fighters failed to return, the highest number in any raid mounted by the 8th Air Force. This account of the mission is a compellingly readable, skillfully researched, minute-by-minute description. It is also the first book on the subject to look at events from the perspective of both sides, drawing on material from over 160 USAAF personnel, Luftwaffe pilots, civilians and German flak gunners. Target Berlin captures the excitement and drama of the operation, bringing to the fore the mounting horror of a mission plagued by misfortune, strong defenses and bad luck. The gripping narrative also sheds light on what it was like to be in Berlin as the bombs began to fall.
ISBN: 9780853689157
(215777)
