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EAN: 9781844139286 ISBN: 184413928X Label: Pimlico Manufacturer: Pimlico Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 384 Publication Date: March 03, 2006 Publisher: Pimlico Release Date: March 03, 2006 Studio: Pimlico Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: On the night of 13th and 14th February 1945, the RAF bombed the German city of Dresden, causing devastating fires which obliterated the historic city centre and killed many thousands of people. Sixty years later, these raids remain one of the most notorious and also one of the most controversial episodes of the Second World War. Firestorm: The Bombing of Dresden, 1945 assembles a cast of distinguished scholars, including Sebastian Cox, Nicola Lambourne, Soenke Neitzel, Richard Overy and Hew Strachan, to review the origins, conduct, and consequences of the raids. Each contributor writes from his or her own perspective, offering the reader a panoramic reassessment of the evidence and the issues, including the question of whether or not the bombing of the city constitutes a war crime. Firestorm cogently demonstrates the reasons why Dresden has come to symbolize the military and ethical questions involved in the waging of total war. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Firestorm, the bombing of DresdenFirestorm: This book could have been written with far fewer words. The format of several different writers was intended to expand the perspective, but it was largely repetetive and judgemental. It was not all that enlightening. On a scale of one to five, it was about a two. Rating:  - A balanced description of the attack and its aftermath_Firestorm: The Bombing of Dresden, 1945_ consists of ten chapters (including the retrospect) by ten authorities on various aspects of the Dresden raids, from the post-WWI British military theory which in part justified the raids in the eyes of its planners, to the modern day reconstruction of the city's monuments. I found the multiple perspectives very useful, and a good supplement to the single-author volumes on the topic. For detailed information on the attack itself, read one (or, in the interest ... Read More Rating: - A Mixed BagThere are good and bad points about this book. Unfortunately, the bad outweighs the good by a bit. There are interesting factoids presented throughout the book, which periodically does illuminate some little-known aspects of the Allied bombing of Germany that in a sense culminated in Dresden. But the book is a mish-mash. Every now and again the author, in explaining topic A, mentions toic B, at which point we get a multi-page exegesis on Topic B. Unfortunately, Topic B is often at best tangential, ... Read More 
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