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Richard Overy

T H E B O M B I N G WA R

Europe 1939–1945

Contents

List of Illustrations

Maps

Abbreviations in the Text

Preface

Prologue: Bombing Bulgaria

1 Bombing before 1940: Imagined and Real

PART ONE

Germany’s Bombing War

2 The First Strategic Air Offensive, September 1940 to June 1941

3 Taking It? British Society and the Blitz

4 The Untold Chapter: The Bombing of Soviet Cities

PART TWO

‘The Greatest Battle’: Allied Bombers over Europe

5 The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: Bomber Command 1939–42

6 The Combined Bomber Offensive: Germany 1943–5

7 The Logic of Total War: German Society under the Bombs

8 Italy: The War of Bombs and Words

9 Bombing Friends, Bombing Enemies: Germany’s New Order

PART THREE

‘The Greatest Miscalculation’?

10 The Balance Sheet of Bombing

Epilogue: Lessons Learned and Not Learned: Bombing into the Post-War World

Illustrations

Bibliography and Sources

Notes

Acknowledgements

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