The Bombing War

[rich]

Richard Over's new book, a door-stopper about the air campaign in the
second world war has been getting rave reviews. could shed some insight on
things Pynchon

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/sep/27/bombing-war-europe-richard-overy-review

If the blitz was the first independent strategic bombing offensive, it was
followed soon by a much larger offensive on the part of the British, where,
exceptionally, military doctrine favoured the independent use of bombers.
The strategy was developed following attempts to suppress colonial
uprisings, where long distances and poor communications had made it
difficult to deploy ground forces effectively. Bomber Command, above all
under Arthur Harris, became, in Overy's words, a "sorceror's apprentice",
whose activities eventually far outran the control of its political masters.
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