Bomber Offensive: The Devastation of Europe (Ballantine's Illustrated History of World War II: Campaign Book No. 7)

160 pp. The Allied forces which undertook the bombing of Europe had been given a brief: Destroy the German war machine, "the economy which feeds it, the morale which sustains it, the supplies which nourish it and the hopes of victory which inspire it"; but they had to develop and try the methods of accomplishing this task and build up the necessary forces to implement policies as yet unproven.