Tobias Grey

Hitler didn’t start indiscriminate bombings — Churchill did 

Bombing in Europe was never a winning strategy, says Richard Overy in The Bombing War

The ruins of Hamburg after Allied bombing, July 1943. Getty Images
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  • The Bombing War: Europe 1939-1945

    Richard Overy

    Allen Lane, pp. 821

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