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I have just read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_bombing_during_World_War_II#The_British_later_in_the_war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_bombin
by webreac 10y ago
I have just read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_bombing_during_World_War_II#The_British_later_in_the_war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_bombing_during_World... that was very different from what my teacher said. For him, germans were far more effective than uk in bombing war production factories and uk was getting short of airplanes. Churchill has decided to focus more on german towns, causing the retaliation on London bombing. According to him, this plan has been a total success, uk was able to rebuild its war production factories and to catch up with Germany.
As history is always rewrote by winner, I was not able to confirm this story.
- lostlogin 10y agoI recommend "Britain's War Machine" by David Edgerton. Prior to hostilities Britain had an inferior military in many regards (but many superior tanks, ships and planes) but her manufacturing and resources available from Empire far exceeded those of Germany. It didn't take that long to get war production going, and by most measures of armament production Britain had overtaken Germany by 1941. It's a while since I read the book but it was quite eye opening to me too see the stats on how powerful Britain was when going into the Second World War. The story of the plucky underdog is a myth.