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Article: BOOK REVIEW; Raid on Dresden still a nightmare
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- The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
- Article date:
- February 14, 2004
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Ash Wednesday, 1945. The German city of Dresden, the "Florence on
the Elbe," lies in smoldering ruins. Forty thousand women, children
and elderly men are dead - buried, asphyxiated, or incinerated -
following a single night of American and British firebombing near the
end of World War II. From that night onward, the memory of that
destruction has haunted Britons and Americans for whom Dresden, like
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, is a symbol of war run amok. British
historian Frederick Taylor spent more than a decade combing through
Nazi, American and British archives for his revisionist look at the
bombing in Dresden: Tuesday, February 13, 1945. In a lively, readable
narrative that promises to ...