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Dresden - A Survivor's Story, February 1945 (Paperback)
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Dresden - A Survivor's Story, February 1945 (Paperback)
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'Victor Gregg is the most remarkable spokesman for the war
generation' Dan Snow In Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
fictionalised his time as a prisoner of war in Dresden in 1945.
Vonnegut was imprisoned in a cellar while the firestorm raged
through the city, wiping out generations of innocent lives. Victor
Gregg remained above ground throughout the firebombing. This is his
true eyewitness account of that week in February 1945. Already a
seasoned soldier with the Rifle Brigade, Gregg joined the 10th
Parachute Regiment in 1944. He was captured at Arnhem where he
volunteered to be sent to a work camp rather than become another
faceless number in the huge POW camps. With two failed escape
attempts under his belt, Gregg was eventually caught sabotaging a
factory and sent to Dresden for execution. Before Gregg could be
executed, the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army
Air Forces dropped more than 3,900 tons of high-explosive bombs and
incendiary devices on Dresden in four air raids over two days in
February 1945. The resulting firestorm destroyed six square miles
of the city centre. 25,000 people, mostly civilians, were estimated
to have been killed. Post-war discussion of whether or not the
attacks were justified has led to the bombing becoming one of the
moral questions of the Second World War. In Gregg's first-hand
narrative, personal and punchy, he describes the trauma and carnage
of the Dresden bombing. After the raid, he spent five days helping
to recover a city of innocent civilians, thousands of whom had died
in the fire storm, trapped underground in human ovens. As order was
restored, his life was once more in danger and he escaped to the
east, spending the last weeks of the war with the Russians.
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