His book, Fire Sites, published at last week's Frankfurt Book Fair, argues
that the RAF's relentless bombing campaign against German cities in the
last months of the war served no military purpose.

This is a tired old argument. Of course the Allied bombing campaign
(it wasn't just British) served a miitary purpose. Every flak gun
aimed at the Lancasters and Fortresses was a flak gun that *wasn't*
aimed at the advancing American and Russian tanks. Every flak crew was
five men who weren't otherwise engaged in shooting at the troops on
the ground.


He claims that Winston Churchill's decision to bomb a shattered Germany
between January and May 1945 was a war crime.

We have so fixed history that soon anyone who defends himself will be
tried as awar criminal. Vide the European view of Israel.

(And it wasn't Churchill's decision any more than it was Roosevelt's.)

all the best -- Dan Ford
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