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Dresden: A Survivor's Story, February 1945 by Rick Stroud, Victor Gregg (Paperback, 2019)

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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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Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-13
9781448217489
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Author
Rick Stroud, Victor Gregg
Publication Name
Dresden: a Survivor's Story, February 1945
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2019
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
64 Pages

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178mm
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111mm
Item Weight
41g

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Rick Stroud, Victor Gregg
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United Kingdom

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4 out of 5 stars
by gallen019125 Mar, 2022
Horror at it's very worst
The smallest and shortest book I have ever bought. It is a bit pricey as I read it in half an hour. However, it is a true story and is certainly gripping. Much of it is quite horrific and it is not for the squeamish. The horrors of war are here for all to see. Even the British are capable of war crimes.
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5 out of 5 stars
by ronwb6127 Feb, 2019
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No holds barred, a real first hand account of what War really means instead of the Hollywood versions portrayed by the likes of John Wayne etc. Makes you think when the victors only put the losing side on trial at Nuremberg for war crimes as if the allies never committed any atrocities against civilians.
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by vicgr1010 Jul, 2019
this was in my opinion a War Crime of the greatest magnitude
Its all 100% factual, this is how it was, the truth about mass genocide , Victor
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5 out of 5 stars
by vegbloke14 Mar, 2019
Short but powerful.
Very thin book, won't take long to read but the content is very intense.
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by spurs124712 Mar, 2020
Dresden book
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