Before February, 1945, Dresden was a city largely untouched by war. It was also an undefended city, packed with refugees fleeing from the advancing Russians. More people were to die there than at Hiroshima or Nagasaki. In one of the most devastating raids on Germany almost 2,000 Allied bombers dropped 3,000 tons of bombs, including 650,000 incendiaries, on the centre of Dresden. The result was a fire-storm that virtually erased the city and killed 135,000 people. These are the facts that lie at the centre of this account of ...
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Before February, 1945, Dresden was a city largely untouched by war. It was also an undefended city, packed with refugees fleeing from the advancing Russians. More people were to die there than at Hiroshima or Nagasaki. In one of the most devastating raids on Germany almost 2,000 Allied bombers dropped 3,000 tons of bombs, including 650,000 incendiaries, on the centre of Dresden. The result was a fire-storm that virtually erased the city and killed 135,000 people. These are the facts that lie at the centre of this account of the Dresden raid. The author also examines the reasons why Dresden was selected for destruction and the planning that led to the attack.
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Good in Fair dust jacket. Slightly leaning, with foxing to the top of the page edges. The dust jacket is foxed, with a stain and closed tear to the front panel. Publisher's price of $4.95 to the front flap. Pale blue cloth with black endpapers. Introduction by Ira C. Eaker.; 255 pages.
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Very good in Fair jacket. 255, [5] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Appendices. Sources. Index. The dust jacket has substantial soiling, wear, tears, and small chips. Introduction by Lt. General Ira C. Eaker, USAF (Ret.). Eaker was the first U. S. Army Air Corps Bomber Commander in Europe and rose to command the Eighth Air Force from October 1942 to January 1944. Foreword by Air Marshal Sir Robert Saundby. This is an early work, increasingly scarce, by an author who has since become a controversial figure in terms of the Holocaust and the Second World War in general. Good in good dust jacket. DJ has wear, soiling, edge tears and chips. The Destruction of Dresden is a 1963 book by British author, in which he describes the February 1945 Allied bombing of Dresden in World War II. The book, having long being praised and held in high esteem, became an international bestseller during the 1960s debate about the morality of the World War II area bombing of the civilian population of Nazi Germany. Derived from a Kirkus review: This account, which is handled with understatement, is nearly as decimating as its subject which is horror-fleshly horror and the genocide which follows in the wake of war. Dresden was bombed as a terroristic action and 135, 000 people died. The author claims this as the single most inhumane act of the war, and only the extermination of the Jews was more dreadful quantitatively. For those who will not flinch from the facts presented here-it is an important record, both as a reminder of the past and a warning for the future. David John Cawdell Irving (born 24 March 1938) is an English author who has written on the military and political history of World War II, especially Nazi Germany. Irving's works include The Destruction of Dresden (1963), Hitler's War (1977), Churchill's War (1987) and Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich (1996). He was recognized for his knowledge of Nazi Germany and his ability to unearth new historical documents, which he held closely but stated were fully supportive of his conclusions. His 1964 book The Mare's Nest about Germany's V-weapons campaign of 1944-45 was praised for its deep research. After serving in 1959 as editor of the University of London Carnival Committee's journal, Irving left for West Germany, where he worked as a steelworker in a Thyssen AG steel works in the Ruhr area and learned the German language. He then moved to Spain, where he worked as a clerk at an air base. By 1962, Irving was engaged to write a series of 37 articles on the Allied bombing campaign, Und Deutschlands Städte starben nicht ("And Germany's Cities Did Not Die"), for the German boulevard journal Neue Illustrierte. These were the basis for his first book, The Destruction of Dresden (1963), in which he examined the Allied bombing of Dresden in February 1945. By the 1960s, a debate about the morality of the carpet bombing of German cities and civilian population had already begun, especially in the United Kingdom. There was consequently considerable interest in Irving's book, which was illustrated with graphic pictures, and it became an international bestseller. In the first edition, Irving's estimates for deaths in Dresden were between 100, 000 and 250, 000-notably higher than most previously published figures. These figures became widely accepted in many standard reference works.
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