Table of Contents
Foreword
Prologue: Norfolk and Heligoland Bight, 18 December 1939
Chapter I In the Beginning, Trenchard: British Bomber Policy, 1917–40
Chapter II 82 Squadron, Norfolk, 1940–41
Chapter III 10 Squadron, Yorkshire, 1940–41
Chapter IV Crisis of Confidence, 1941–42
Chapter V The Coming of Area Bombing, 1942
Chapter VI 50 Squadron, Lincolnshire, 1942
1. Harris Conducts an Overture
2. Operations
Chapter VII Protest and Policy, 1942–43
1. Dissent
2. Casablanca—The Airmen Victorious
3. The Tools of Darkness
Chapter VIII 76 Squadron, Yorkshire, 1943
1. The Ruhr
2. Hamburg
3. Courage
Chapter IX The Other Side of the Hill: Germany 1940–44
1. The Destruction
2. The Defenses
Chapter X Bomber Command Headquarters, Buckinghamshire
Chapter XI Conflict and Compromise, 1943–44
1. The Battle of Berlin
2. The American Breakthrough
Chapter XII Pathfinders: 97 Squadron, Lincolnshire, 1944
Chapter XIII “A Quiet Trip All Round”: Darmstadt, 11/12 September 1944
Chapter XIV Saturation
Chapter XV The Balance Sheet
Appendix A Bomber Command sorties dispatched and aircraft missing and written off, 1939–45
Appendix B Specifications and performance of the principal aircraft of Bomber Command and Luftwaffe night-fighters, 1939–45
Appendix C Letter to Sir Norman Bottomley, Deputy Chief of Air Staff, from Sir Arthur Harris
Appendix D Comparison of British and German production of selected armaments, 1940–44
Appendix E Schedule of German cities subjected to area attack by Bomber Command, 1942–45
Appendix F Comparison of Allied and German aircraft production, 1939–45
Bibliography and a note on sources
Notes and references
Glossary of ranks, abbreviations and codenames
AcknowledgmentsIndex
