Looking for recommendations on books on the air war against Reich oil production

[Richard T. Eger]

Dear Frank,

Thanks for the recommendation. I just ordered it from Abebooks, as I find sometimes they are cheaper than Amazon.

Hopefully, it contains the impacts on the Luftwaffe and oil production over time. I like that it equally looks at the effort from both the Bomber Command and 8th and 15th Air Force perspectives. The other 2 books appear to be slanted from the British end. Also, I'm happy to see that it looks at the interaction and synergism of the transportation and oil targets.

What I'm trying to do is back up a bit and get a bigger picture of what was going on. In my research dealing with the Me 262, while the jet issue held interest of the Intelligence types, it was essentially a non-target in terms of its production. The best that I've come up with was it was felt the decentralization made it too hard to conduct an effective bombing campaign. But, my gut feel says there was more to it than that, thus the need for a bigger view. Much as in Haines' Command Decision, there were only 3 prime assembly sites for the Me 262, the attacking of them likely pretty much wiping out any chance to use the aircraft. All were forest assembly sites. One was very well documented, the other 2 not. Even the well documented one was never attacked.

Regards,
Richard

Correction: There were 4 prime Me 262 assembly sites, all in forests.