Targeting the Reich: Allied Photographic Reconnaissance over Europe, 1939-1945 [Hardcover]

Dr Alfred Price (Author)

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Publication Date: February 19, 2006

Reconnaissance was the key to air power in World War II and, inevitably, the Allied campaign to destroy Germany's means of waging war depended on an accurate of the identity and precise location of each particular target. The best way of obtaining such information from occupied Europe was by aerial photography. This valuable book, compiled and arranged by the leading authority on World War II aviation, brings together some of the most fascinating results of those aerial sorties over Europe. It includes more than 150 clear and precise photographs of targets - whether factories, railway yards, warships or troop concentrations - and Dr Price's captions to each image describe the significance of each picture and expose some of the clues which reveal the target's significance. Targeting the Reich is an authoritative and enthralling study of aerial warfare and a key to understanding the importance of reconnaissance in the grueling campaign to bomb Germany into submission.

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Dr. Alfred Price has written many books on aviation and related subjects, including "War in the Fourth Dimension" (1853674710) and "Battle of Britain Day" (1853674192). Greenhill Books

Product Details

• Hardcover: 144 pages
• Publisher: Greenhill Books; 1st edition (February 19, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1853675466
• ISBN-13: 978-1853675461
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 7.7 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,749,904 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This review is from: Targeting the Reich: Allied Photographic Reconnaissance over Europe, 1939-1945 (Hardcover)

Certainly this is not a book for everyone, but I have a considerable liking for aerial photographs. I like the unconventional perspective such photographs give to places and events. Algred Price's "Targeting the Reich: Allied Photographic Reconnaissance Over Europe, 1939-45" provides a succinct text overview of British and US aerial reconnaissance techniques and technology, but the main focus of the book is the more than 150 photographs taken during reconnaissance missions, startling in their clarity and drama. We see bombing raids in progress, Nazi warships and airfields, camouflaged factories, V-1 launch sites ... Some of the photographs display what I can only call artistic merit, especially those with features casting sharp, dark shadows or those with extraordinary patterns of water wave action or land tracks. The terror and destruction of war is transformed into a harsh beauty.