Dan’s research and book list:
A history of strategic bombing
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American Airpower Strategy in World War II: Bombs, Cities, Civilians, and Oil
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The Fire: The Bombing of Germany, 1940-1945
To Destroy a City: Strategic Bombing and Its Human Consequences in World War II
The Night Tokyo Burned
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War: The New Edition
On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
The Laws of War: Constraints on Warfare in the Western World
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The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West
Blood, Tears, and Folly: An Objective Look at World War ll
London At War
The Command of The Air (USAF Warrior Studies)
The War in the Air
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Hell to Pay: Operation DOWNFALL and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947
2194 Days of War: An Illustrated Chronology of the Second World War
Experience of War: An Anthology of Articles from Mhq : The Quarterly Journal of Military History
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History: Vol. 2. No. 4. (Summer 1990)
cccarlocoppola1 –
Extremely difficult subject to tackle but Dan does a fantastic job
Thomas –
wow……This podcast should be mandatory for all humans to listen to.
David –
I love this episode because even though he didn’t set out to do this, he details the events that gave birth to the US Air Force. So much of his research list was required reading back when I was an academy cadet, but his telling of the story focuses unapologetically on the early evolution of strategic bombing. Anyone interested in the development of modern air power needs to know this story.
Kewee65 –
Excellent treatment of an emotionally charged event. Dan takes you into the mindset of the people and governments of the time, exploring the extreme inhumanity that preceded the dropping of Little Boy and Fat Man. It puts a very different perspective on the end of the war and is a careful lesson not to be taken in by the kneejerk reaction we have today against the nuclear weapons of World War Two. Required reading for, well, everyone.