Dresden: Tuesday, February 13, 1945

Frederick Taylor

Harper Collins, 21 апр. 2009 г. - Всего страниц: 560

Published to coincide with the bombing, this dramatic and controversial account completely re-examines the Allied attack on Dresden

For decades it has been assumed that the Allied bombing of Dresden was militarily unjustifiable, an act of rage and retribution for Germany’s ceaseless bombing of London and other parts of England.

Now, Frederick Taylor’s groundbreaking research offers a completely new examination of the facts, and reveals that Dresden was a highly-militarized city actively involved in the production of military armaments and communications concealed beneath the cultural elegance for which the city was famous. Incorporating first-hand accounts, contemporaneous press material and memoirs, and never-before-seen government records, Taylor documents unequivocally the very real military threat Dresden posed, and thus altering forever our view of that attack.

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Пользовательский отзыв  - expatscot - LibraryThing

Incredibly good. The holistic picture of the attack on Dresden is laid out in almost forensic detail so that you really feel you understand the situation that the attack happened within and the impact ...

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Taylor's book on Dresden is really three books in one - a history of Saxony, a history of aerial bombardment and finally a history of the bombing of Dresden in the Second World War. He would have done ...

Содержание

• PROLOGUE Saxons: 1
• PART ONE FLORENCE ON THE ELBE: 9
• Blood and Treasure: 11
• The Twin Kingdom: 18
• Florence on the Elbe: 30
• The Last King of Saxony: 36
• The Saxon Mussolini: 45
• A Pearl with a New Setting: 55
• First the Synagogue Burns Then the City: 62
• Laws of the Air: 76
• Call Me Meier: 92
• Blitz: 102
• Fire and the Sword: 112
• The Reichs Air Raid Shelter: 135
• A City of No Military or Industrial Importance?: 148
• PART TWO TOTAL: 167
• Ardennes and After: 169
• Thunderclap and Yalta: 179
• Intimations of Mortality: 193
• Time and Chance: 207
• Shrove Tuesday: 225
• TallyHo: 241
• Air Raid Shelter the Best Protection: 251
• The Perfect Firestorm: 274
• Catastrophe: 284
• Ash Wednesday: 316
• Aftermath: 333
• PART THREE AFTER THE FALL: 345
• City of the Dead: 347
• Propaganda: 360
• The Final Fury: 373
• The War Is Over Long Live the War: 382
• The Socialist City: 395
• The Sleep of Reason: 401
• AFTERWORD Commemoration: 419
• APPENDIX A The Massacre on the Elbe Meadows: 429
• APPENDIX B Counting the Dead: 443
• Legends of the Fall: 449
• Endnotes: 457
• Sources and Bibliography: 488
• Index: 497

Об авторе

Frederick Taylor studied history and modern languages at Oxford University and Sussex University. A Volkswagen Studentship award enabled him to research and travel widely in both parts of divided Germany at the height of the Cold War. Taylor is the author of Dresden and has edited and translated a number of works from German, including The Goebbels Diaries, 1939-1941. He is married with three children and lives in Cornwall, England.

Библиографические данные

• Название: Dresden: Tuesday, February 13, 1945
• Автор: Frederick Taylor
• Издание: перепечатанное
• Издатель: Harper Collins, 2009
• ISBN: 0061908177, 9780061908170
• Количество страниц: Всего страниц: 560