Marcus Gibson has signed a contract with Chiselbury for a ground-breaking study detailing for the first time the true scale of the war-winning impact of RAF Bomber Command during WW2.

The book, titled ‘Grand Slam: How RAF Bomber Command Won WW2’, forensically challenges the widely repeated claims that the campaign was ‘ineffective, costly and even a war crime’ and goes on to show, with painstaking analysis of British, American, Soviet and German archives, that it was in fact an undoubted game-changer in ensuring the ultimate defeat of the Nazi Regime.

It was not just the direct effect that the nightly bombing campaign wrought on German industrial production that had such an impact. It is also the knock-on effects that forced the Nazis to take actions and make decisions that ultimately were disastrous for their war effort.

These far-reaching consequences included drastically easing the Red Army’s advance in the East; the massive diversion of resources to make Hitler’s revenge V-weapons; and the necessity to build vast bomb-proof bunkers and factories across Europe.

Controversially Grand Slam proves conclusively that the raid on Dresden in February 1945 was entirely justified as a military-industrial target, and that very few German civilians were truly as innocent as many historians have claimed.

This book will be the first, comprehensive analysis that profiles the full spectrum of RAF Bomber Command’s achievements – and it will fundamentally change our view, once and for all, of the immensity of their contribution.