Britain Under Fire: Bombing of Britain's Cities, 1940-45

The suffering of the civilian population in the Second World War was a new and disturbing aspect of war. Would national morale be affected? Would the will to fight be sapped? Hitler's Luftwaffe caused huge devastation to human life and property, yet the emergence of defiant spirit was something our enemies never bargained for. Charles Whiting's superb account of the Nazi's attempt to bring a nation to its knees through the bombing campaigns.