The largest part of the tonnage dropped by the British through the rest of the war was directed at the centers and most built-up parts of cities—not at factories or military installations, which tended to be on the outskirts—although high officials continued, falsely, to deny this to Parliament and the public every year of the war. When it came to killing civilians, practice preceded intention; but a change in intention did make quite a difference. It was possible to kill more people from the air than the Germans had succeeded in doing in the London Blitz or the British had attempted to do by
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