Editing Strategic bombing (section)

===Further reading===
* Biddle, Tami Davis. ''Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare: The Evolution of British and American Ideas about Strategic Bombing, 1914–1945'' (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics) (2004)
* [[Horst Boog|Boog, Horst]], ed. ''The Conduct of the Air War in the Second World War: An International Comparison'' (1992) 763 pp.; very important anthology by major researchers
* Boog, Horst, ed. ''Germany and the Second World War: Volume VII: The Strategic Air War in Europe and the War in the West and East Asia, 1943–1944/5'' (Oxford UP, 2006), 928pp official German history vol 7 [https://www.amazon.com/Germany-Second-World-War-Strategic/dp/0198228899/  excerpt and text search]; [https://archive.today/20130201020319/http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=115474949 online edition]
* [[Walter J. Boyne |Boyne, Walter J.]] ''Clash of Wings: World War II in the Air'' (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994).[https://archive.org/details/clashofwingsairp00boyn/page/343 Online access], {{isbn|0-671-79370-5}}
* Buckley, John. ''Air Power in the Age of Total War'' (Indiana University Press, 1999). {{isbn|0-253-33557-4 }}
* Clodfelter, Mark. "Aiming to Break Will: America's World War II Bombing of German Morale and its Ramifications", ''[[Journal of Strategic Studies]]'', June 2010, Vol. 33 Issue 3, pp.&nbsp;401–35
* Clodfelter, Mark. ''Beneficial Bombing: The Progressive Foundations of American Air Power, 1917–1945'' (University of Nebraska Press; 2010) 347 pp.
* Craven, Wesley Frank, and James Lea Cate. ''The Army Air Forces in World War II'' (7 vols 1948–1958; rpr. 1985), official US Army Air Force history
* Davis, Richard G. "Bombing Strategy Shifts, 1944–45", ''Air Power History'' 39 (1989) 33–45
* Futrell, Robert Frank. ''Ideas, concepts, doctrine: A history of basic thinking in the United States Air Force, 1907–1964''  (2 vols 1974)
* Grayling, Anthony C. ''Among the dead cities: The history and moral legacy of the WWII bombing of civilians in Germany and Japan'' (Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2009)
* Griffith, Charles. ''The quest: Haywood Hansell and American strategic bombing in World War II'' (1999) [https://books.google.com/books?id=VMjqpOmQbesC&q=hansell+air+war+plan online edition]
* Hansell, Jr., Haywood S. ''Air Plan That Defeated Hitler'' (1980) [https://books.google.com/books?id=yIvxVcOTmkEC&q=hansel+air+war+plan online version]
* Kennett, Lee B. ''A History of Strategic Bombing'' (1982)
* Koch, H. W. "The Strategic Air Offensive against Germany: the Early Phase, May–September 1940." ''The Historical Journal'', 34 (March 1991) pp.&nbsp;117–41. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2639710 online at JSTOR]
* Levine, Alan J. ''The Strategic Bombing of Germany, 1940–1945'' (1992) [https://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=15370919 online edition] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120716181759/http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=15370919 |date=2012-07-16 }}
* MacIsaac, David. ''Strategic Bombing in World War Two'' (1976) story of the official American Strategic Bombing Survey 
* {{cite journal|last=McCoy|first=A.W.|title=Reflections on History's Largest Air War|journal=Critical Asian Studies|date=2013|volume=45|issue=3|pages=481–489|doi=10.1080/14672715.2013.829670|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14672715.2013.829670}}
* Messenger, Charles. ''"Bomber" Harris and the Strategic Bombing Offensive, 1939–1945'' (1984), defends Harris
* Morris, Craig F. ''The Origins of American Strategic Bombing Theory'' (US Naval Institute Press, 2017), 272 pp.
* Neillands, Robin. ''The Bomber War: The Allied Air Offensive Against Nazi Germany'' (Overlook Press, 2001)
* Overy. Richard. "The Means to Victory: Bombs and Bombing" in Overy, ''Why the Allies Won'' (1995), pp.&nbsp;101–33
* {{Cite book|last=Patler|first=Nicholas|title="Is the U.S. Haunted by Its Nuclear Past? Dropping the atomic bomb crossed a moral threshold." The Progressive Christian (Winter 2009), pp. 15–19, 36}}
* {{Cite book|last=Patler|first=Nicholas|title="Book Reviews/Essay: A Twentieth Century History of Bombing Civilians, and A History of Bombing." Journal of Critical Asian Studies (March 2011), 153–56}}
* Sherry, Michael. ''The Rise of American Air Power: The Creation of Armageddon'' (1987), important study 1930s–1960s
* Smith, Malcolm. "The Allied Air Offensive", ''Journal of Strategic Studies'' (1990) 13#1 pp.&nbsp;67–83
* Spaight, James M. [https://archive.org/details/BombingVindicated ''"Bombing Vindicated"''] G. Bles, 1944. {{ASIN|B0007IVW7K}} (Spaight was Principal Assistant Secretary of the Air Ministry) (UK)
* {{cite journal|last=Trimble|first=Michael M.|title=Air Force Strategic Bombing and Its Counterpoints from World War I to Vietnam|url=https://ndupress.ndu.edu/Media/News/News-Article-View/Article/1682124/air-force-strategic-bombing-and-its-counterpoints-from-world-war-i-to-vietnam/|journal=Joint Force Quarterly|volume=91|date=2018|pages=82–89}}
* Verrier, Anthony. ''The Bomber Offensive'' (1968), British
* Webster, Charles and Noble Frankland, The Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany, 1939–1945 (HMSO, 1961), 4 vols. Important critical official history of RAF Bomber Command effort
* Werrell, Kenneth P. "The Strategic Bombing of Germany in World War II: Costs and Accomplishments", ''Journal of American History'' 73 (1986) 702–13;  [https://www.jstor.org/pss/1902984 in JSTOR]
* Werrell, Kenneth P. ''Death From the Heavens: A History of Strategic Bombing'' (2009) Good analysis
* Wetta, Frank J., and Martin A. Novelli. "Good Bombing, Bad Bombing: Hollywood, Air Warfare, and Morality in World War I and World War II." ''OAH Magazine of History'' 22.4 (2008): 25–29. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/25162196 online]

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