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Dresden [electronic resource] : the fire and the darkness

McKay, Sinclair2020
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In February 1945 the Allies obliterated Dresden, the 'Florence of the Elbe'. Explosive bombs weighing over 1,000 lbs fell every seven and a half seconds and an estimated 25,000 people were killed. Was Dresden a legitimate military target or was the bombing a last act of atavistic mass murder in a war already won? From the history of the city to the attack itself, conveyed in a minute-by-minute account from the first of the flares to the flames reaching almost a mile high - the wind so searingly hot that the lungs of those in its path were instantly scorched - through the eerie period of reconstruction, bestselling author Sinclair McKay creates a vast canvas and brings it alive with touching human detail.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Penguin Books, 2020.
Collation:
1 online resource (audio files (13 hr., 56 min., 14 sec.)) : digital, stereo
Notes:
Click on link below to go to East Sussex Digital LibraryDescription based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
Performers:
Narrated by Leighton Pugh.
ISBN:
9780241454091 (audio download)
Dewey class:
940.542132142
LC class:
D757.9
Language:
English
BRN:
2454424
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