Target Leipzig

A gripping account of the RAF's attempt to destroy a Messerschmitt factory in 1944, and the carnage and confusion that unfolded on a dark winter night. Seventy-nine heavy bombers failed to return from the catastrophic raid on the industrial city of Leipzig on the night of February 19 20, 1944. Some 420 aircrew were killed and a further 131 became prisoners of war. It was at that time the RAF's ...