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BOMBER COMMAND

Max Hastings,
author of over twenty books, was born in 1945. He was a scholar at Charterhouse and University College, Oxford, before working as foreign correspondent for newspapers and BBC television, reporting from over fifty countries. He was editor of the
Daily Telegraph
for almost a decade, and then for six years edited the
Evening Standard
. He has won many awards for his journalism, particularly for his dispatches from the South Atlantic in 1982. He was knighted in 2002.

 

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DAS REICH

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THE DAM BUSTERS

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DEFEAT INTO VICTORY

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THE LONELY LEADER

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THE OVERLORD

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F/Sgt Herbert Ruse (
on the left
) of 37 Squadron being briefed for an operation. On the right is the squadron CO, W/Cdr Joe Fogarty.

Harry Jones of 37 Squadron in a German hospital after being shot down on 18 December 1939.

Marshal of the RAF Lord Trenchard.

Sir Edgar Ludlow-Hewitt, C-in-C of Bomber Command 1937–40.

Sir Richard Peirse, C-in-C of Bomber Command 1940–42.

Sir Archibald Sinclair, Secretary of State for Air 1940–45. He was leader of the Liberal Party until he went to the House of Lords as Viscount Thurso.

A Halifax of Bomber Command sets out for Germany.

The face of the enemy: Germany’s armament workers continued to produce the tools for the survival of the Third Reich almost until the end, their will unbroken by bombing. Here a factory group is addressed by Albert Speer.

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