Middlebrook, Martin, — THE NUREMBERG RAID 30-31 March 1944.
Fontana, London, 1975, 1st in imprint, trade paperback, 369pp, 16pp 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 with light vertical creasing to spine, a little rubbed at extrems., edges tanned, ink name/date half title, good plus,