Firestorm : Allied airpower and the destruction of Dresden /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Random House,
c2006.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. "The bomber will always get through" : aerial bombardment : theory and history
- 2. The architects of destruction : the bomber barons and total air war
- 3. Weapons for the new age of warfare : the race for aerial superiority
- 4. The fatal escalation : air war against civilians
- 5. Vergel Tungswaffen : the V-weapons
- 6. Operation Thunderclap : run-up to the inferno
- 7. The target : Florence on the Elbe
- 8. Shrove Tuesday, 1945 : Dresden on the eve of the Apocalypse
- 9. A pillar of fire by night : bomber command takes the lead
- 10. A column of smoke by day : the American third wave
- 11. Ash Wednesday, 1945 : a city laid waste
- 12. "Mr. Prime Minister?" : questions in parliament and world opinion
- 13. From the ashes : Dresden is reborn.