Alan Cooper (3)Recensioni
Autore di Air Battle of the Ruhr
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In this period Bomber Command flew 29,022 missions dropping 60,825 tons of bombs on Germany and lost 2,990 men killed. The nearly three thousand killed is a staggering number, but it is only when you see each name printed alongside his comrades that it really strikes home. Whatever one may think of the missions they were asked to fly, one cannot doubt the courage of those who did and it is a tragedy that it took so long for them to receive a memorial.
I have to say, though, that the rest of the book is a bit of a mess. It has a number of interesting facts and anecdotes, but they are written almost as a stream of consciousness, inserting snippets seemingly at random between other passages. What I think this book really needed was better editing to help the author build a narrative out of the superb material and recollections he has gathered. It's not a hard read but it is a confusing one and maybe not suited to the casual reader - if you have no clue about this field I think you'll struggle in places.