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Dresden : the fire and the darkness / Sinclair McKay.

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940.54213 MCKA
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940.54213 MCKA
 Adult Non Fiction   Paddington . On Loan . 3 May 2024
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ISBN 9780241389683 (hardback)
Author McKay, Sinclair author.
Title Dresden : the fire and the darkness / Sinclair McKay.
Publisher/Date London : Viking, [2020]
©2020
Pagination etc. xxv, 369 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Note In February 1945 the Allies obliterated Dresden, the 'Florence of the Elbe'. 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.
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives
Dresden (Germany) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945
Shelf Location 940.54213 MCKA
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