Richard Overy
To The Death
The End: Hitler’s Germany, 1944–45
By Ian Kershaw
Allen Lane/The Penguin Press 564pp £30 order from our bookshop
During the course of the Second World War the Allies spent a good deal of time trying to work out how bombing might bring a country to collapse. In Italy’s case there is a good argument for suggesting that bombing helped to give the impetus to the overthrow of Mussolini and the Italian surrender in September 1943.
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