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100			_aHolland, James, _d1970- _eauthor. _95028
245	1	0	_aBig Week : _bthe biggest air battle of World War Two / _cJames Holland.
260			_aLondon : _bBantam Press, _c2018.
300			_axxvii, 402 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations, maps ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aIn the early days of 1944, as the build-up to D-Day intensified, an audacious plan was taking shape in the form of Operation Argument a brutal & systematic strategy to finally sledgehammer the Luftwaffe into submission and ensure the skies were clear for the Allied invasion of France later that summer. In one fatal stroke they planned to deplete not only the German air force, but also the aircraft and munitions industry which supported it. On Sunday 20th February, an airborne assault, the like of which had never before been seen, was unleashed. The Americans launched their first-ever thousand bomber raids by day while the RAF attacked by night. What followed over that week was one of the largest and most dramatic air battles ever witnessed. In the first ever narrative history of Big Week, historian James Holland recounts the story of that extraordinary and brutal battle, underpinned by painstaking research and analysis. In day-by-day and often hour-by-hour detail, he follows the fortunes of some of the men & women who took part on both sides; commanders, pilots, air crew, ground staff, and civilians, revealing in forensic and heart-stopping detail the conditions, fear and drama of war in the air. Big Week is the elemental story of bomber against flak gun, of fighter against fighter, in which tens of thousands of young men were pitted against each other in a punitive, bludgeoning clash of arms. It was one hell of a week.
610		0	_aUnited States. _bArmy Air Forces _xHistory _yWorld War, 1939-1945. _942028
610		0	_aGreat Britain. _bRoyal Air Force _xHistory _yWorld War, 1939-1945. _942029
610		0	_aGermany. _bLuftwaffe _xHistory _yWorld War, 1939-1945. _942030
611		0	_aWorld War (1939-1945) _2fast _920299
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _xAerial operations. _942031
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _xCampaigns _zWestern Front. _942032
650		0	_aMilitary operations, Aerial. _2fast _942033
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