Tobias Grey

Hitler didn’t start indiscriminate bombings — Churchill did 

Bombing in Europe was never a winning strategy, says Richard Overy in The Bombing War

The ruins of Hamburg after Allied bombing, July 1943. Getty Images 
issue 26 October 2013
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  • The Bombing War: Europe 1939-1945

    Richard Overy

    Allen Lane, pp. 821

‘I cannot describe to you what a curious note of brutality a bomb has,’ said one woman who lived through the initial German raids on London during the second world war. This woman’s ambivalent reaction to having a bomb rip through her bedroom typified the shocking reality of a different type of war to any that had ever been fought before.

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