SLEDGEHAMMERS FOR TINTACKS
Written by Steve Darlow
Published by Grub Street
in 2002
ISBN: 1902304969
- Categorised in:
- MILITARY
- AVIATION
- AIR FORCE
- WORLD WAR II
SLEDGEHAMMERS FOR TINTACKS
Written by Steve Darlow.
Stock no. 2110772
1st.
2002.
Hardback.
Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.
Bomber Command Combats The V-1 Menace, 1943-1944. B/w photos. ISBN: 1902304969. Light bumping along bottom edge of front cover. Wrapper a little edge-creased.
Front cover
Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Prologue
- Chapter 1 The Threat
- Chapter 2 Sledgehammers - The RAF's Heavies
- Chapter 3 The Call to Arms
- Chapter 4 A New Threat
- Chapter 5 Vergeltung, Reprisal
- Chapter 6 Counter-Attack
- Chapter 7 Daylight Raids
- Chapter 8 Night Battle
- Chapter 9 The Pressure Builds
- Chapter 10 Caves and Combat
- Chapter 11 'You'll Keep Going Back'
- Chapter 12 No Let Up
- Chapter 13 New Policy, New Targets
- Chapter 14 Long Days and Nights
- Chapter 15 New Threats and City Targets
- Chapter 16 Closure
- Chapter 17 Final Analysis
- Appendix 1 Bomber Command Losses on Crossbow Operations
- Appendix 2 Bomb Tonnages Dropped by Allied Air Forces on Crossbow Targets
- Appendix 3 Daily Rate of Flying Bombs Fire and Weekly Averages
- Appendix 4 Bomber Command Attacks Ailly-le-Haunt-Clocher, 16/17,22/23 December 1943
- Sources
- Bibliography and Secondary Sources
- Notes
- Index