Bombing Germany: Sources

Primary Sources (In addition to embedded YouTube videos)

United States Strategic Bombing Survey: Oil Division, Final Report.  1947.  Hathi Trust https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015011672485.

United States Strategic Bombing Survey: Maybach Motorworks, Friedrichshafen, Germany.  1947.  Hathi Trust https://hdl.handle.net/2027/msu.31293022403996

Frankland, Noble,  et. al.  The Combined Bomber Offensive: Classical and Revolutionary, Combined and Divided, Planned and Fortuitous.  With Commentary, notably by Allied and German Air Power Leaders in World War II.  Office of Air Force History, Headquarters, U.S. Air Force.  1968 Online edition at Air War College, Maxwell Alabama.  http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/cbo-afa/cbo00.htm.

Nossack, Hans Erich: The End: Hamburg, 1943. Joel Agee, trans. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Secondary Sources

“An Interactive Archive of Images and Information.” American Air Museum in Britain.  http://www.americanairmuseum.com/

Crane, Conrad. American Airpower Strategy in World War II: Bombs, Cities, Civilians, and Oil.  Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2016.

Friedrich, Jörg.  The Fire: The Bombing of Germany, 1940-1945.  New York: Columbia University press, 2008.

Holman, Brett. Air-Minded: Airpower and British Society,1908-1941 (Mostly).  https://airminded.org/

Miller, Donald.  Masters of the Air: America’s Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany.  New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007.

Overy, Richard.  The Bombing War:  Europe, 1939-1945. London: Penguin UK, 2014.

Sherry, Michael.  The Rise of American Air Power: The Creation of Armageddon.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987.

Tooze, Adam.  Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy.  New York: Penguin, 2008.

Photos

Imperial War Museum (Great Britain).

Bundesarchiv (Federal German Archives).

Life Magazine & Google Images.

Many of the photographs here were taken by Margaret Bourke-White, working for Life Magazine during and after World War II.

U.S. National Archives

Vintage Everyday Blog www.vintag.es

Project Gutenberg.  www.gutenberg.org.

Library and Archives of Canada