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A gripping account of the disastrous 10,000 bomber raid on Hitler's lair, told for the first and final time. In March 1944 - as part of Bomber Command's 'Battle of Berlin' to decimate Hitler's capital city - the RAF attacked the spiritual home of the Nazi Party - Nuremberg. The raid that began on the evening of 30 March 1944 was a run-of-the-mill operation for the by then 'Thousand-Bomber' raids the RAF and United States Air Force were undertaking every week - as would be seen with Dresden's destruction in late 1944. What makes this operation so significant was that it would be the costliest in terms of aircraft losses that RAF Bomber Command suffered in a single night attack during the whole of the Second World War. The average attrition rate of a night raid was twenty planes, but, during this raid the British lost 96 Lancaster, and Halifax, bombers shot down and a further 10 written-off after landing, making a total of 106 aircraft lost (nearly 700 men killed or missing) and resulted in one pilot being awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross. In addition, Nuremberg suffered comparatively light damage and the raid has since come to be seen by historians as a comparative failure. This

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Author

Nichol, John, 1963-

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers Limited; HarperCollins Publishers

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780007486861

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, History, Humanities

Rating

4.23 / 5 (22 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14