Type of bind: Paperback
EAN num: 9781844139286
ISBN number: 184413928X
Label: Pimlico
Manufacturer: Pimlico
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 384
Printing Date: March 03, 2006
Publishing house: Pimlico
Release Date: March 03, 2006
Sale Popularity Level: 2334493
Studio: Pimlico
Other books you might be interested in perusing:
Editor's Notes and Comments:
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.
User popularity level:
Rated by buyers 
-
Firestorm: 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.
Rated by buyers 
-
_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 of balance, several) of these other volumes. For the larger historical/philosophical/legal aspects of the attack, I'd recommend this book.
Rated by buyers -
There 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, and at worst almost irrelevant, to the main subjects addressed in the book. It's as if the author either wanted to add words and pages for the sake of increasing volume or to show off his knowledge regarding diverse subjects. Not well edited.
Find other books like this one:
