The Bombing of Germany

The Bombing of Germany. Hans Rumpf. Translated from the German by Edward Fitzgerald. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963. First U.S. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 256 pp. Very Good in a Good dust jacket. First U.S. edition of Hans Rumpf’s significant German perspective on the Allied strategic bombing campaign against Germany during the Second World War. Translated by Edward Fitzgerald, the book examines the bombing offensive, its methods and effects, and the moral and historical questions raised by aerial warfare against cities and civilian populations. Rumpf’s account was among the early German challenges to prevailing assessments of the campaign’s methods and results. An important period work for collectors and readers of World War II history, strategic bombing, air warfare, RAF Bomber Command, the U.S. Army Air Forces, German civilian experience, military ethics, European history, and postwar historiography. Condition: Very Good book in a Good dust jacket. The book is clean, tight, and well preserved with light wear consistent with age. The jacket shows heavy discoloration and wear, especially at top and bottom of spine.…