Publisher's Synopsis
During the last stages of WWII the United States Strategic Bombing Survey (USSBS) was formed to assess the effects of Allied bombing on the German war machinery and civilian population. The only direct testimonial by a member of the USSBS s Morale Division that has been recovered are the unflinchingly honest diaries and letters of famed anthropologist Alfred Métraux. These documents, collected here, constitute a poignant ethnography of the moral devastation of war and offer the reader a window into one of the most significant moments in modern history.
