Big Week, 9780552173506
Paperback
Air battle to end the air war, remembered at last.

Big Week

the biggest air battle of world war two

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  • Paperback

    576 pages

  • Release Date

    18 February 2019

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Summary

Big Week: The Forgotten Air Battle That Changed the Course of WWII

It was to be the battle to end the air war once and for all.

During the third week of February 1944, the combined Allied air forces launched their first-ever round-the-clock bomber offensive against Germany.

The aim was to smash the main factories and production centers of the Luftwaffe and at the same time draw the German fighter force up into the air and into battle.

Big Week is the…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780552173506
ISBN-10:0552173509
Author:James Holland
Publisher:Transworld Publishers Ltd
Imprint:Corgi Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:576
Release Date:18 February 2019
Weight:417g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm x 36mm
About The Author

James Holland

James Holland is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning historian, writer, and broadcaster. The author of a number of best-selling histories including most recently The Savage Storm and Cassino ‘44, he is also the author of ten works of fiction and a dozen Ladybird Experts. He is the co-founder of the annual Chalke Valley History Festival which is now in its twelfth year, and he has presented - and written - many television programmes and series for the BBC, Channel 4, National Geographic and the History and Discovery channels. With Al Murray, he has a successful Second World War podcast, We Have Ways of Making You Talk, which also has its own festival, and is a research fellow at St Andrew’s University and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

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