AFTER the successful publication of my book The Destruction of Dresden on April 1, 1963 -- which was accompanied by a serialisation in the then fledgling Sunday Telegraph newspaper -- I learned that the British Air Ministry had subjected my two brothers, both Royal Air Force officers, to critical comment and ease their position, I decided to write a book about one of RAF Bomber Command’s most successful operations, the August 1943 strike against Hitler’s secret rocket plant at Peenemünde, on the Baltic coast. Of the legitimacy of this particular attack there could.
