Why read The Battle of Hamburg?

Book cover of The Battle of Hamburg: The Firestorm Raid

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Martin Middlebrook enjoys an international reputation with his superbly researched compelling accounts of major turning points in the two World Wars. An absorbing account of the battle of Hamburg, based on the accounts of those who experienced it on both sides - in the air and on the ground. 'Documentary…

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1 author picked The Battle of Hamburg as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Jon Trigg

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I was enraptured by this book. It took me right into the middle of one of the defining events of the air war over Germany in a way that no other book did, not even Sinclair McKay’s superb Dresden.

Through Middlebrook’s book, I saw the bombing of Germany’s second city through the eyes of the British bomber crews, the helpless German fighter pilots, and the people of Hamburg itself. It made me realise how close bombing came at that point in the war to causing a German collapse–totally absorbing.

From Jon's list on The best books about the bombing of Nazi Germany–war miles in the sky!.