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"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,...
Assigned to a sanitary clean-up crew after the bombing, POW Vonnegut had to dig into shelters and basements which “looked like a streetcar full of people who simultaneously had heart failure. Just people sitting in their chairs, all dead”—robbed of oxygen by the all-consuming firestorm. ...
The destructive capability of a bomb is determined by a variety of factors, and the bombs that were dropped on Dresden had something unique that was developed for large scale bombing in World War II: phosphorus. Thisincendiary chemicalfed the flames into a monstrous firestor...
bombing during the war (Feb., 1945). Although deaths from the bombing and firestorm have been estimated at between 35,000 and 135,000 (and sometimes higher), an official German historical investigation reported (2010) that up to 25,000 died. Among the city's famous landmarks, all damaged...
Bombing of Dresden, during World War II, Allied bombing raids on February 13–15, 1945, that almost completely destroyed the German city of Dresden. The raids became a symbol of the ‘terror bombing’ campaign against Germany, which was one of the most c
a firestorm developed, incinerating tens of thousands of people. The U.S. Eighth Air Force followed the next day with another 400 tons of bombs and carried out yet another raid by 210 bombers on February 15. It is thought that some 25,000–35,000 civilians died in Dresden in the air ...
creating a great firestorm that destroyed most of the city and killed numerous civilians. Later that day, as survivors made their way out of the smoldering city, more than 300 U.S. bombers began bombing Dresden’s railways, bridges and transportation facilities, killing thousands more. On Februa...
Firestorm: the Bombing of Dresden 1945 Web Maintainers Note: This reviewer combined his review of Firestorm: The Bombing of Dresden, 1945 edited by Paul Addison and Jeremy A. Crang with his revi... J Crang - 《Air & Space Power Journal》 被引量: 9发表: 2006年 Firestorm: The Bombing ...