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To Destroy A City: Strategic Bombing And Its Human Consequences In World War 2 by Herman Knell (Hardcover, 2003)
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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.Product Identifiers
PublisherHachette Books
ISBN-139780306811692
eBay Product ID (ePID)91472391
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SubjectGovernment, History
Publication Year2003
Number of Pages384 Pages
Publication NameTo Destroy a City: Strategic Bombing and Its Human Consequences in World War 2
LanguageEnglish
TypeTextbook
AuthorHerman Knell
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height235 mm
Item Width155 mm
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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorHerman Knell
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- 29 Jan, 2023
Doesn't do what it says on the tin.
It is advertised as being about the bombing of Wuzberg, but actually only has about one chapter on that particular raid. The rest is just a re-hash of other histories about the strategic air war. The author says there is no reason for him to detail the Wuzberg attack, as there are four other books about it; which is true, but they are all in German. So an opportunity missed. Also some basic errors, both in English language and factually. Two out of five is being generous.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
