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In February 1945 the Allies obliterated Dresden, the 'Florence of the Elbe'. Explosive bombs weighing over 1,000 lbs fell every seven and a half seconds and an estimated 25,000 people were killed. Was Dresden a legitimate military target or was the bombing a last act of atavistic mass murder in a war already won? From the history of the city to the attack itself, conveyed in a minute-by-minute account from the first of the flares to the flames reaching almost a mile high - the wind so searingly hot that the lungs of those in its path were instantly scorched - through the eerie period of reconstruction, bestselling author Sinclair McKay creates a vast canvas and brings it alive with touching human detail
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Dresden, Sinclair McKay
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2020
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- Titel
- Dresden
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Sinclair McKay
- Verlag
- Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2020
- Einband
- Hardcover
- Seitenzahl
- 400
- ISBN10
- 0241389682
- ISBN13
- 9780241389683
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Historisches Thema, Geschichte, Militärgeschichte, Kriege, Deutschland, Zweiter Weltkrieg
- Bewertung
- 4,25 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- In February 1945 the Allies obliterated Dresden, the 'Florence of the Elbe'. Explosive bombs weighing over 1,000 lbs fell every seven and a half seconds and an estimated 25,000 people were killed. Was Dresden a legitimate military target or was the bombing a last act of atavistic mass murder in a war already won? From the history of the city to the attack itself, conveyed in a minute-by-minute account from the first of the flares to the flames reaching almost a mile high - the wind so searingly hot that the lungs of those in its path were instantly scorched - through the eerie period of reconstruction, bestselling author Sinclair McKay creates a vast canvas and brings it alive with touching human detail