Article: Dresden: Tuesday, February 13, 1945

Article: Firestorm: Allied Air Power and the Destruction of ...
Parameters;  December 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Second World War. The word "Dresden" is invoked consistently ... well. The reasons for the Dresden raid's high profile are ... fleeing the fighting on the Eastern Front. In addition, David Irving ... influential book The Destruction of Dresden (which was originally published ...

Article: The man who tried to stop the Dresden raids.(Jim Rose)
History Today;  March 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... And that was that.' Dresden, though undefended, had ... and it was a transport hub. Dresden featured among targets listed ... of German troops to their eastern front. In his book Fall Out (1997 ... was not being routed through Dresden. The movements of Sixth Panzer ...

Article: BOOK REVIEW; Raid on Dresden still a nightmare
The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA;  February 14, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... night of Feb. 13 - what made Dresden a conflagration of apocalyptic ... weeks. Astoundingly, all of Dresden's anti- aircraft artillery ... moved to oil plants or to the eastern front to combat the Russians. As ... firebombs, was dropped on Dresden. On the ground, Nazi officials ...

Article: Learning from the horrors of Dresden
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  March 14, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... right's propaganda that Dresden was a city of peace. Most ... the bombing was inevitable. Dresden's train network continued ... troops and supplies to the eastern front. Its precision industries ... understandably lament the loss of Dresden. It makes me wonder whether ...

Article: Firestorm: The Bombing of Dresden, 1945/Among the Dead ...
Air & Space Power Journal;  July 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... However, while Cox argues that Dresden was a militarily significant ... Allied objectives for the Dresden raids was to create an obstacle ... attempts to reinforce the Eastern Front against the approaching Soviet ... contends that the bombing of Dresden was, in fact, a war crime ...

Article: ATTACK ON DRESDEN SCRUTINIZED 50 YEARS LATER DOUBTS ...
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  February 12, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... high, largely because of Dresden, that King George VI ... legitimate military purpose. Dresden was neither an industrial ... advancing Russians on the Eastern Front, Stalin insisted that a massive air attack on Dresden, which was crammed with ...

Article: Off target in Dresden
The Spectator;  October 15, 2005 ;     256 words ... ... Sir: If, as M.R.D. Foot says (Books, 1 October), Dresden was 'an important centre for the German armament industry and a key knot in communications towards the eastern front', why was the historic centre of the 'unarmed cultural ...