SECOND HAND BOOKS

804728/22 - THE NUREMBERG RAID

By Martin Middlebrook - Published Allen Lane, 1973

Bomber Command's raid on Nuremberg in early 1944 should have been a routine 'maximum effort' operation. It wasn't: it was a major disaster. The target was only lightly damaged and 96 of the 779 bombers dispatched went missing. Martin Middlebrook recreates the events of the night of 30-31 March in astonishing detail. He consults archives, corresponds with the raid's planners, interviews RAF and Luftwaffe aircrew as well as the German civilians in the areas that were bombed. It is a meticulous, dramatic and often controversial account. It is also a moving testimony to the bravery of both the RAF's bomber crews and their opponents.

Reasonable condition.  Some marks to outer edges of pages, some wear to top and bottom of spine, price clipped but otherwise pages are clean and unmarked and generally a good copy.