Dropping Their Eggs
Patrick Wright: The history of bombing, 23 August 2001
A History of Bombing
by Sven Lindqvist, translated by Linda Haverty Rugg.
Granta, 233 pp., £14.99, May 2001,1 86207 415 1 Show More
by Sven Lindqvist, translated by Linda Haverty Rugg.
Granta, 233 pp., £14.99, May 2001,
The Bomber War: Arthur Harris and the Allied Bomber Offensive 1939-45
by Robin Niellands.
Murray, 448 pp., £25, February 2001,0 7195 5637 6 Show More
by Robin Niellands.
Murray, 448 pp., £25, February 2001,
Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War
by Frances FitzGerald.
Touchstone, 592 pp., $17, March 2001,0 7432 0023 3 Show More
by Frances FitzGerald.
Touchstone, 592 pp., $17, March 2001,
“... technologists, to the person quaking on the ground beneath the planes. More or less absent from Robin Neillands’s The Bomber War, a defence of Bomber Harris, the victims keep appearing here, crowding out the ingenious scientists and the heroic airmen. Some are hardened corpses, melted in their own blackened fat in the shelters or laid out in rows ‘liked ... ”
