Bad Advice And Bombs
Saturday, April 7, 2012 - 12:30
in Mathematics & Economics
A few months ago, I read Electric Universe by David Bodanis (ISBN 1400045509). There are two chapters on radar during the Second World War, #7 dealing with Britain’s defences and #8 dealing with the area bombing of Germany, a tactic down to ‘Bomber’ Harris, which to this day gives rise to doubt in Britain, such that we feel a conflict between honouring the bomber crews who sustained the heaviest proportion loss of all our armed forces, and disturbance at the methods of their commander, who went for mass slaughter of civilians rather than military or industrial targets. read more