A Times/Sunday Times Book of the YearPowerful . . . there is rage in his ink. McKays book grips by its passion and originality. Some 25,000 people perished in the firestorm that raged through the city. I have never seen it better described Max Hastings, Sunday TimesIn 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 minutebyminute 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.Along the way we encounter, among many others across the city, a Jewish woman who thought the English bombs had been sent from heaven, novelist Kurt Vonnegut who wrote that the smouldering landscape was like walking on the surface of the moon, and 15yearold Winfried Bielss, who, having spent the evening ushering refugees, wanted to get home to his stamp collection. He was not to know that there was not enough time.Impeccably researched and deeply moving, McKay uses neverbeforeseen sources to relate the untold stories...

Binding: Paperback;400 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: HBJD; Weight: 428 g; Dimensions: 129 x 196 x 32

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