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Battlefields in the Air: Canadians in the Allied Bomber Command

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This book gives a good overall view of the Canadian participation in the British Bomber campaign in World War II. The book has vignettes from Canadian aircrew, but also of Germans who were on the receiving end of their bombs. The book in it's brief 176 pages gives the reader a good feeling of what itwas to fly in the bombers over Germany at night during the war. He has many personal interviews interroven through out the book, these include stories from the author's father and uncle. The only negative is the book is a little slim for it's price. It also delves into the contoversey of carpet bombing and the ethics of the whole bomber campaign. On the whole the book is good, with old and new material included to give a good overview of what it was like to fly bombers in the war.