Bomber Command

5 best books like Bomber Command (Max Hastings): Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944, Hero Found: The Greatest POW Escape of the Vietnam War, Fighter Boys: Saving Britain 1940, The Bombers and the Bombed: Allied Air War Over Europe 1940-1945, Dam Busters: The True Story of the Legendary Raid on the Ruhr

Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944

Author	Antony Beevor
ISBN	0670918660

The great airborne battle for the bridges in 1944 by Britain's Number One bestselling historian

On 17 September 1944, General Kurt Student, the founder of Nazi Germany's parachute forces, heard the growing roar of aeroplane engines. He went out on to his balcony above the flat landscape of...

Hero Found: The Greatest POW Escape of the Vietnam War

Author	Bruce Henderson
ISBN	0061571369

From the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of And the Sea Will Tell comes Hero Found: the incredible but true story of Dieter Dengler, the only pilot to escape captivity from a POW camp in the Laotian jungle during the Vietnam War. This amazing story of triumph over seemingly insurmountable odds...

Fighter Boys: Saving Britain 1940

Author	Patrick Bishop
ISBN	0006532047

In the summer of 1940, the future of Britain and the free world depended on the morale and skill of the young men of Fighter Command. This is their story.


The Battle of Britain is one of the most crucial battles ever fought, and the victory of Fighter Command over the Luftwaffe has always been...

The Bombers and the Bombed: Allied Air War Over Europe 1940-1945

Author	Richard Overy
ISBN	0670025151

The ultimate history of the Allied bombing campaigns in World War II

Technology shapes the nature of all wars, and the Second World War hinged on a most unpredictable weapon: the bomb. Day and night, Britain and the United States unleashed massive fleets of bombers to kill and terrorize occupied...

Dam Busters: The True Story of the Legendary Raid on the Ruhr

Author	James Holland
ISBN	0593066766

A combination of scientific innovation and heroism led to one of the lesser known but extremely important bombing raids of WWII. It was all due to the imagination of a civilian engineer/airplane designer named Barnes Wallis and his commitment to the idea of the destruction of the three major dams in...