2004, ISBN: 9780747570783

Gebundene Ausgabe

london: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2004. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Appears to be unread. No faults first printing. At 9.51pm o… Mehr…

london: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2004. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Appears to be unread. No faults first printing. At 9.51pm on Tuesday, 13 February 1945, Dresden's air-raid sirens sounded as they had done many times in the previous five years, until then most always a false alarm. Ten minutes later the first marker flares were dropped by Mosquitos of 627Squadron. No searchlights probed the skies above the unprotected target city; the guns had mostly been moved East to counter the Russian advance. By the next morning, 796 RAF Lancasters and 311 USAAF Liberators had dropped more than 4,500 tones of high explosives and incendiary devices. More than 25,000 inhabitants (possibly many more) perished in that terrifying firestorm, and 13 square miles of the city's historic centre, including incalculable quantities of treasure and works of art, lay in ruins. It was Ash Wednesday 1945. Almost a lifetime later, the name of the city continues to echo uneasily in our collective memory, and controversy about Dresden's destruction continues. In this fascinating new study, Frederick Taylor has researched deeply in the German, British and American archives, and talked to the British and American bomber crews and to the city's survivors, including Jews working as slave labourers in the munitions and radar factories, refugees, members of the German armed services, or civilians, to reveal the most complete portrait ever attempted of the city and its fate., Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2004, 5<

2004, ISBN: 9780747570783

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ISBN: 9780747570783

Hardback. Very Good., 3