A Dream, A Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

This absorbing narrative tells how, during the Second World War, an eccentric Dutch inventor and a group of young American airmen developed precision bombing to destroy enemy infrastructure while minimizing civilian casualties. It also reveals how their approach was overruled by Churchills advisor Frederick Lindemann and RAF supremo Arthur Bomber Harris, in favour of carpet bombing cities to break enemy morale.