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The first paperback book I ever bought was the Pan Books edition of The Dam Busters, followed by Enemy Coast Ahead and the autobiography of Leonard Cheshire. Since those days the reputation of bomber command, and of its Commander‐in‐Chief Sir Arthur Harris, has fluctuated (to put it kindly) in accordance with changing perceptions of recent history and changing attitudes to the policies behind the bombing operations. But whatever its motives or background circumstances, the bombing campaign of World War II is rarely out of the news or out of discussion, as controversies about strategic bombing rage this way and that...

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