Middlebrook, Martin, — THE NUREMBERG RAID 30-31 March 1944.
Fontana, London, 1975, 1st in imprint, trade paperback, 369pp, 14pp (of 16) half tone photo ills., maps/diagrams in text, photo montage wrappers, a background history of Bomber Command's raids on Germany up to March 1944 and a meticulous account of the raid on Nuremberg on 30-31 March 1944, the RAF's worst defeat of WW2 Strategic Bomber Offensive when 96 Lancasters and Halifaxes were lost out of a total of 779 bombers despatched, mainly to German night fighters, with 500 aircrew killed and 150 taken prisoner, sl. slant to spine with light vertical creasing, rubbed at extrems. esp. head of spine, light creasing at cnrs., edges tanned, lacks one leaf of illustrations and another detached and loosely inserted, good reading copy,
