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To Destroy A City - Strategic Bombing And Its Human Consequences In World War 2 (Hardcover, New)
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To Destroy A City - Strategic Bombing And Its Human Consequences In World War 2 (Hardcover, New)
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Herman Knell was nineteen and living in Wurtzburg in March of 1945
when hundreds of Allied planes arrived overhead, unleashing a
torrent of bombs on the city. Wurtzburg'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 Wurtzburg 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
history 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.
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