Cover ; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 Hoping the Bomber will always get through; Chapter 2 The Lion Tries His Wings, September 1939-February 1941; Chapter 3 Committing Britain to a Bomber War, Spring 1941-Spring 1942; Chapter 4 Unleashing the Whirlwind, February 1942-August 1943; Chapter 5 Berlin, 'the Big City'; Chapter 6 Achieving Victory, Spring 1944-May 1945; Chapter 7 Remembering and Misremembering, 1945-1999; Conclusion; APPENDIX A Bomber Command and the War Artists Scheme; APPENDIX B Journey Together (1945) and The Way to the Stars (1945).;The role of Bomber Command in the Second World War is still shrouded in mystery. This book provides a new story of the campaign and is both a military history and an investigation as to how the modern image has come about. There have been hundreds of books about the RAF and Bomber Command ranging from highly researched histories, technical studies of the aircraft, to popular works; as well as countless films, television shows and newspaper reportage. Mark Connelly draws together all the strands to look at the image created by this outpouring. Reaching for the Stars shows why Bomber Command, in.