Bomber command

Prologue

Norfolk and Heligoland bight, 18 December 1939

In the beginning, Trenchard: British bomber policy, 1917-40

Squadron, Norfolk, 1940-41

Squadron, Yorkshire, 1940-41

Crisis of confidence, 1941-42

The coming of area bombing, 1942

Squadron, Lincolnshire, 1942

Harris conducts an overture

Operations

Protest and policy, 1942-43

Dissent

Casablanca-the airmen victorious

The tools of darkness

Squadron, Yorkshire, 1943

The Ruhr

Hamburg

Courage

The other side of the hill: Germany 1940-44

The destruction

The defenses

Bomber Command Headquarters, Buckinghamshire

Conflict and compromise, 1943-44

The battle of Berlin

The American breakthrough

Pathfinders: 97 Squadron, Lincolnshire, 1944

"A quiet trip all round": Darmstadt, 11/12 September 1944

Saturation

The balance sheet

Appendix A: Bomber command sorties dispatched and aircraft missing and written off, 1939-45

Appendix B: Specifications and performance of the principal aircraft of Bomber Command and Luftwaffe night-fighters, 1939-45

Appendix C:

The target indicator board at Bomber Command HQ, High Wycombe, at the beginning of February 1945

Appendix D: Comparison of British and German production of selected armaments, 1940-44

Appendix E: Schedule of German cities subjected to area attack by bomber command, 1942-45

Appendix F: Comparison of Allied and German aircraft production, 1939-45.