| Title:
Target
Berlin – Mission 250: 6 March 1944 by Jeffrey Ethel
& Alfred Price |
|
Description:
On
6 March 1944 the Americans launched their first large-scale
daylight raid on Berlin, the capital of Hitler's Reich.
The price they paid for their audacity was high: sixty-nine
heavy bombers and eleven escort fighters failed to return,
the highest number in any raid mounted by the 8th Air
Force.
This account of the mission is a compellingly readable,
skillfully researched, minute-by-minute description. It
is also the first book on the subject to look at events
from the perspective of both sides, drawing on material
from over 160 USAAF personnel, Luftwaffe pilots, civilians
and German flak gunners.
Target Berlin captures the excitement and drama of the
operation, bringing to the fore the mounting horror of
a mission plagued by misfortune, strong defences and bad
luck. The gripping narrative also sheds light on what
it was like to be in Berlin as the bombs began to fall.
|
| Author:
Jeffrey
Ethell was an aviation enthusiast, expert and author of
note. Dr Alfred Price has written many books on aviation
and related subjects, including War in the Fourth Dimension
and Battle of Britain Day. He was a member of the R.A.F.
as aircrew logging some 4,000 flying hours. |
| Binding:
Hardcover. |
| Date
Published:
First published 1981. |
Edition:
This
edition1981. |
| Jacket
Condition: Very
good condition with blue cover and silver writing on spine.
Pictured dust cover is in very good condition. |
| Book
Condition:
Very good condition containing 212 pages, 32 of which contain
black and white photographs others contain illustrations.
Has “Happy Christmas 1982” written on inside cover. |
| Publisher:
Book Club Associates. |
| ISBN:
: No ISBN but CN 2039. |
| Size
& Weight: 24
cm x 15.5 cm (H x W) 2.3 cm thick. |
