Author: Copp, DeWitt S.,
Title: FORGED IN FIRE - Strategy and Decisions in the Air War over Europe 1940-45.
Description: Doubleday, New York, 1982, 1st edn. US, xviii, 531pp, 32pp half tone photo ills., grey paper covered boards backed with black cloth lettered in silver at spine, coloured decorated dustwrapper, fore-edge uncut, an examination of the military and political manoeuverings behind the role of USAAF air power in WW2 between the military commanders and the politicians, the battle to develop the B-17, the failure of the Army and Navy commanders at Pearl Harbor to use their air forces, the costly and unproductive raids on the U-Boat pens and overall the military belief in the strategy of daylight bombardment, lightly rubbed and faintly bumped at tips, faint foxing to edges, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, tiny nick at tail of spine, sl. sunning at edges, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

Keywords: war ww2 raf usaaf luftwaffe


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