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To Destroy A City: Strategic Bombing And Its Human Consequences In World War 2

Door Herman Knell

Categorie	WO II
Boeknummer	#327887-XE7
Titel	To Destroy A City: Strategic Bombing And Its Human Consequences In World War 2
Auteur	Knell, Herman
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	New York : Da Capo Press
Jaar van uitgave	2003
ISBN10	0306811693
ISBN13	9780306811692
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated with b/w photographs, 8vo.
Samenvatting	Herman Knell was nineteen and living in Würtzburg in March of 1945 when hundreds of Allied planes arrived overhead, unleashing a torrent of bombs on the city. Würtzburg's tightly packed medieval housing exploded in a firestorm, killing six thousand people in one night and destroying 92 percent of the city's structures. Despite the fact that Würtzburg had no strategic value, the city emerged from World War II second only to Dresden in material destruction inflicted from the air. The experience led Knell to years of research on the history, development, and effects of the strategy of area bombing. To Destroy a City is the result of the author's long and unrelenting investigation. His analysis of this form of warfare, which reached its zenith during World War II, covers the his... (Lees verder)tory and the development of wide-area bombing since 1914, examines its wartime effectiveness and the consequences. But the extra dimension that Knell's book offers is his firsthand experience of the tension, fear, tentative defiance, and, finally, utter catastrophe of being on the receiving end of overwhelming air power. For Americans, who fortunately did not experience bombing during the war, this is essential reading.
Pagina's	373
Conditie	Redelijk — Black permanent marker line on top cut (circa 7cm). Else fine.
Prijs	€ 8,00

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