Night Airwar
Book description
The night airwar over Western Europe was a long, intensive and costly airwar campaign. Theo Boiten tells this often harrowing and sometimes inspiring story using the personal accounts of over 70 veterans from both sides. The book is illustrated with many rare and previously unpublished photographs from the personal collections…
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1 author picked Night Airwar as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
The best thing about reading this book was that it shone a light–if you can forgive the pun–on the otherwise unseen world of the nighttime air battles over Germany.
Before I read it, I admit I thought of the night war as some sort of game of chess, somehow fought at a comfortable distance. Boiten’s book shredded that distance and brought me face-to-face with the reality of it all in a gratifyingly unsentimental way.
Perhaps the most powerful image it left me with was of young British (and allied) airmen suddenly being blown out of the sky by an enemy…
From Jon's list on the bombing of Nazi Germany–war miles in the sky!.
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