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Free Download Bas Von Benda-Beckmann, "German Historians and the Bombing of German Cities: The Contested Air War "
English | ISBN: 9089647813 | 2015 | 292 pages | PDF | 1470 KB
Today, strategic aerial bombardments of urban areas that harm civilians, at times intentionally, are becoming increasingly common in global conflicts. This book reveals the history of these tactics as employed by nations that initiated aerial bombardments of civilians after World War I and during World War II. As one of the major symbols of German suffering, the Allied bombing left a strong imprint on German society. Bas von Benda-Beckmann explores how German historical accounts reflected debates on postwar identity and looks at whether the history of the air war forms a counternarrative against the idea of German collective guilt. Provocative and unflinching, this study offers a valuable contribution to German historiography.

Free Download Bombing to Provoke
by Jaganath Sankaran
English | October 8, 2024 | ISBN: 0197792642 | 224 Pages | epub | 1,11 MB

Free Download Allied Bombing Raids: Hitting Back at the Heart of Germany (Images of War) by Philip Kaplan
English | May 19, 2014 | ISBN: 1783462892 | 128 pages | MOBI | 59 Mb
‘Pilots – they are our new nobility. Not dukes or earls or lords, but pilots. Praise them and pray for their glorious survival’. – Lord Beaverbrook

Free Download On a MOVE: Philadelphia’s Notorious Bombing and a Native Son’s Lifelong Battle for Justice (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CCW7Z4HK | 2024 | 10 hours and 6 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 289 MB
Author: Mike Africa Jr., D. Watkins
Narrator: Mike Africa Jr.
The incredible story of MOVE, the revolutionary Black civil liberties group that Philadelphia police bombed in 1985, killing 11 civilians-by one of the few people born into the organization, raised during the bombing’s tumultuous aftermath, and entrusted with repairing what was left of his family. Before police dropped a bomb on a residential neighborhood on May 13, 1985, few people outside Philadelphia were aware that a Black-led civil liberties organization had taken root there. Founded in 1972 by a charismatic ideologue called John Africa, MOVE’s mission was to protect all forms of life from systemic oppression. They drew their ideology from the Black Panther Party and pre-dated animal and environmental rights groups like PETA and Earth First. MOVE emerged in an era when Black Philadelphians suffered under devastating policies brought by the long, doomed war in Vietnam, Mayor Frank Rizzo’s overtly racist police surveillance, and, eventually, President Ronald Reagan’s War on Drugs. MOVE members lived together in a collection of West Philadelphia row houses and took the surname Africa out of admiration for the group’s founder. But in MOVE’s lifestyle, city officials saw threats to their status quo.

Free Download Thomas Wildenberg – Destined for Glory: Dive Bombing, Midway, and the Evolution of Carrier Airpower
Naval Institute Press | 1998 | ISBN: 1557509476 | English | 288 pages | PDF | 100.32 MB
Explores the development of the tactics of carrier airpower from 1925 and argues that years of vision, experimentation, and practice by U.S. naval personnel resulted in the innovative and successful practice of dive bombing-which was the pivotal tactic allowing the U.S. to turn the tide of the war.

Free Download Combined Round the Clock Bombing Offensive: Attacking Nazi Germany (Images of War) by Philip Kaplan
English | May 19, 2015 | ISBN: 178346304X | 176 pages | PDF | 84 Mb
In World War Two, the most effective fighting units were usually small – submarine crews, infantry platoons, commandos, and bomber crews. Of these it could be said that the men who crewed the bombers caused more damage to the enemy and had a greater impact on the outcome of the conflict than any number of the rest. Most of the aircrews were volunteers (in the RAF, they all were), intelligent, fit, and highly trained. Each knew he was essential to the team; he knew that a mistake by anyone could mean the death of all. Their interdependence was a welding influence.

Free Download Bombing of London 1940-41: the Blitz and Its Impact on the Capital by John Conen
English | January 4, 2023 | ISBN: 1803134879 | 416 pages | PDF | 3.41 Mb
This is the story of the London Blitz of 1940-41 and is a combination of social and military history of this time. The title emphasises bombing over blitz as the word ‘Blitz’ has now taken on a much more general meaning associated with Britain’s wartime spirit. This book describes how the Blitz progressed from the daylight attacks of the summer of 1940 through to the major raids of the spring of 1941, and looks at exactly what happened in the metropolis in those years. During the course of these attacks thousands of bombs fell on London, many triggering an ‘incident, a bland word that on hundreds of occasions effectively resulted in a disaster which in peacetime would have made national headlines.

Free Download On a Move: Philadelphia’s Notorious Bombing and a Native Son’s Lifelong Battle for Justice by Mike Africa Jr.
English | August 6, 2024 | ISBN: 0063318873 | 304 pages | EPUB | 32 Mb
The incredible story of MOVE, the revolutionary Black civil liberties group that Philadelphia police bombed in 1985, killing 11 civilians-by one of the few people born into the organization, raised during the bombing’s tumultuous aftermath, and entrusted with repairing what was left of his family.

Free Download Colonel T. Tracey Goetz, "Determination And Effectiveness Of Wwii Strategic Bombing Strategy"
English | 2014 | ASIN: B06XGPXFGM | EPUB | pages: 56 | 0.5 mb
With the collapse of France in 1940, American (US) and British (UK) leadership became keenly aware that the continued security of their nations required the defeat of the Axis powers, particularly Germany. The Allies chose a strategy utilizing a combination of various military actions, most notably a combined bomber offensive (CBO). The CBO would be carried out through a combination of US daylight precision and UK night area bombing.

Free Download Bombing Hitler’s Hometown: The Untold Story of the Last Mass Bomber Raid of World War II in Europe
by Mike Croissant
English | March 26, 2024 | ISBN: 0806543043 | 463 pages | EPUB | 2.61 Mb