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020    |z9781473542143 (ePub ebook) 
041    eng 
082 04 940.544|223 
092 0  940.54|bengelska 
100 1  Holland, James,|d1970-|eauthor 
245 10 Big Week :|bthe biggest air battle of World War Two /
       |cJames Holland 
264  1 London :|bBantam Press,|c2018 
264  4 |c©2018 
300    xxvii, 402 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
       |billustrations, maps ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
336    still image|bsti|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index 
520    In the early days of 1944, as the build-up to D-Day 
       intensified, an audacious plan was taking shape in the 
       form of Operation Argument a brutal & systematic strategy 
       to finally sledgehammer the Luftwaffe into submission and 
       ensure the skies were clear for the Allied invasion of 
       France later that summer. In one fatal stroke they planned
       to deplete not only the German air force, but also the 
       aircraft and munitions industry which supported it. On 
       Sunday 20th February, an airborne assault, the like of 
       which had never before been seen, was unleashed. The 
       Americans launched their first-ever thousand bomber raids 
       by day while the RAF attacked by night. What followed over
       that week was one of the largest and most dramatic air 
       battles ever witnessed. In the first ever narrative 
       history of Big Week, historian James Holland recounts the 
       story of that extraordinary and brutal battle, underpinned
       by painstaking research and analysis. In day-by-day and 
       often hour-by-hour detail, he follows the fortunes of some
       of the men & women who took part on both sides; commanders,
       pilots, air crew, ground staff, and civilians, revealing 
       in forensic and heart-stopping detail the conditions, fear
       and drama of war in the air. Big Week is the elemental 
       story of bomber against flak gun, of fighter against 
       fighter, in which tens of thousands of young men were 
       pitted against each other in a punitive, bludgeoning clash
       of arms. It was one hell of a week 
610 10 United States.|bArmy Air Forces|xHistory|yWorld War, 1939-
       1945 
610 10 Great Britain.|bRoyal Air Force|xHistory|yWorld War, 1939-
       1945 
610 10 Germany.|bLuftwaffe|xHistory|yWorld War, 1939-1945 
610 10 Andra världskriget 1939-1945|2sao 
610 17 Germany.|bLuftwaffe.|2fast 
610 17 Great Britain.|bRoyal Air Force.|2fast 
610 17 United States.|bArmy Air Forces.|2fast 
611 27 World War (1939-1945)|2fast 
648  7 1939-1945|2fast 
650  0 World War, 1939-1945|xAerial operations 
650  0 World War, 1939-1945|xCampaigns|zWestern Front 
650  7 Military campaigns.|2fast 
650  7 Military operations, Aerial.|2fast 
650  7 Militära operationer|2sao 
651  4 Storbritannien 
651  4 Förenta staterna 
651  4 Tyskland 
651  7 Western Front (World War (1939-1945)) 
655  7 History.|2fast 
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