In March 1945, the German government ordered its press to publish a falsified casualty figure of 200,000 for the
Among the American POWs who were in Dresden during the raid was novelist Kurt Vonnegut, who conveyed his experience in his classic antiwar novel ...
It is oft repeated that Churchill “ordered” the firebombing of Dresden as a “vicious payback” for the German bombing of Coventry (which Churchill is often ...
American author Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007), who was a prisoner of war in Dresden during the Allied attack and tackled the controversial event in ...
Ordered by Deputy Chief of the Air Staff Norman Bottomley to bomb the city
Bombing of Dresden, during World War II, Allied bombing raids on
The attack on Dresden began on 13 February 1945. Close to 800 RAF aircraft - led by pathfinders, who dropped flares marking out the bombing ...
I had been in fights where the ground in front of me was littered with the remains of young men who had once been full of the joy of living, ...
The raid, which came a month after the firebombing of Dresden, brought
The firebombing of Tokyo on March 9, 1945 marked the beginning of