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Bomber Harris: His Life and Times: The Biography of Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Harris, the Wartime Chief of Bomber Command
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Aerospace Power Journal
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July 1, 2002
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- Hughes, Tom
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Bomber Harris: His Life and Times: The Biography of Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Harris, the Wartime Chief of Bomber Command by Henry Probert. Stackpole Books (http://www.stackpolebooks.com/Stackpole books.storefront), 5067 Ritter Road, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania 17055-6921, 2001, 432 pages, $34.95.
History records Arthur Harris as Bomber Harris, one of the most controversial figures of World War II. The wartime commander of Britain's Bomber Command, Harris personified the controversial area bombardment of German cities from early 1942 to Nazi capitulation in May 1945. Both during the war and afterwards, some people vilified this bombing policy as immoral and strategically ...