Strike Hard, Strike Sure: Epics of the Bombers. by Barker, Ralph - 1963

London: Chatto and Windus, 1963. Octavo, red boards (hardcover), gilt letters, x, 210 pp. Neat former-owner bookplate; otherwise, Fine in a Very Good, mylar protected dust jacket with lightly rubbed edges. From dust jacket: Many thousands of words have been written and many more uttered, about the conception of the bomber offensive in World War II, the strategy and tactics of Bomber Command, the choice of target systems, the methods of attack, the evaluation of bombing results and implications of the national war effort, both Allied and enemy. Surprisingly little has been told of the men who flew these bombers, who faced and sustained a loss rate never before borne by any military force of comparable size in history. Here at last is the story of some of those men, and of the stirring actions in which they took part...