The Bombing War: Europe 1939-1945

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First published 2013

Copyright © Richard Overy, 2013

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The epigraph is from John Betjeman, Collected Poems, copyright © 2006 the Estate of John Betjeman, reproduced by permission of John Murray (Publishers). The quotations from Vera Brittain England’s Hour are reproduced by permission of Mark Bostridge and T. J. Brittain-Catlin, literary executors of the estate of Vera Brittain, 1970.

Front cover: View of the City of London taken from the roof of St. Paul’s Cathedral showing the devastation and burning buildings following the Blitz of the 29th December 1940. (Photograph © Mirrorpix / The Bridgeman Art Library)

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ISBN: 978-0-141-92782-4