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The Air War Through German Eyes

How the Luftwaffe Lost the Skies over the Reich

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The Air War Through German Eyes

By: Jonathan Trigg
Narrated by: Kris Dyer
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Starting with leaflet drops in 1940, the aerial offensive against the Nazis' homeland grew into a huge armada that pulverised much of Germany, seriously damaging her ability to make war and killing hundreds of thousands. By day, the Flying Fortresses of the Mighty Eighth US Airforce confronted the day fighters of Luftflotte Reich, and then it was the turn of Bomber Command's Lancasters to fight off the deadly predators of the Nachtjagd (night hunters). The tactics and technology of Allied escort fighters evolved quickly though the war years, as they did for the defending German fighters. For the Allied airmen who fought this war, the price was frighteningly high. For those who opposed them–in the air and on the ground–it was even higher.

As the bombing increased, Nazi high command was forced to devote more and more resources to try and defeat the Allied campaign, just when those same resources were desperately needed elsewhere, both on the Russian Front and, after D-Day on 6 June 1944, on the new Western Front.

Written from the "other side" and told as much as possible through the words of the veterans, this is an important book on one of the most controversial campaigns of the Second World War.

©2024 Jonathan Trigg (P)2024 W.F. Howes Ltd Military Military & War World War II War
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The author was enthusiastic. He sounded convincing and made the audio beyond interesting for the average listener

The tone of voice was excellent

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Why would one select someone wo read a book full of German words without checking he knew how to pronounce them? If it is possible to utterly mangle a pronunciation, this reader will do it, and to such a degree that it's occasionally impossible to guess what the German word is. Dreadful.

A good story marred by a truly dreadful reader

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