This is a very good account of Bomber Command in the war, and as with all Max Hastings' books you learn a whole load that you didn't know, even if you thought you knew the period well.
The book concentrated overly on the mass of heavy bombers and on the moral question of area bombing. Hastings' thesis is that the heavy bomber campaign was anincredibly expensive war of attrition which did not hurt the Germans mortally. But at that it was preferable to other campaigns of attrition which would have cost much more in lives. Whatever Churchill had decided to pour his industrial and technical effort into, the Germans would have responded and some kind of attrition would have ensued.
