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Dresda: martedì 13 febbraio 1945 di Frederick Taylor (2004, copertina rigida)-
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Specifiche dell'oggetto
- Condizione
- ISBN
- 9780060006761
- Book Title
- Dresden : Tuesday, February 13 1945
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.2 in
- Genre
- History
- Topic
- Military / World War II, Europe / Germany, Military / Strategy, Military / Afghan War (2001-)
- Item Weight
- 30 oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 544 Pages
Informazioni su questo prodotto
Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0060006765
ISBN-13
9780060006761
eBay Product ID (ePID)
6019020
Product Key Features
Book Title
Dresden : Tuesday, February 13 1945
Number of Pages
544 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2004
Topic
Military / World War II, Europe / Germany, Military / Strategy, Military / Afghan War (2001-)
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
30 oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2003-057139
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
In narrative power and persuasion, [Taylor] has paralleled in DRESDEN what Antony Beevor achieved in STALINGRAD., Taylor carefully debunks .... the 'pervasive postwar myth' ... What emerges is a picture markedly different from conventional accounts., The enigmatic past and the patient muse of history are brilliantly served ... by this blockbuster of a book., Anyone who thinks that during World War Two Dresden manufactured just chinaware must read this penetrating book., Compelling ... [Taylor] puts the assault in its proper context to reveal the inherent moral tangle of total war., Compelling ... Mr. Taylor makes a persuasive case that Dresden was not an innocent bystander in the tragedy that was WWII., Deeply affecting ... a bracing rebuke to the myths and propaganda that have painted over the memory of this tragedy., Well-researched, objective and compassionate...Frederick Taylor convincingly sets the record straight., Fascinating....a fine, revealing work of revisionist history. He has also given us a deeply haunting human drama.
Dewey Decimal
940.54/2132142
Synopsis
Published to coincide with the bombing, this dramatic and controversial account completely re-examines the Allied attack on Dresden For decades it has been assumed that the Allied bombing of Dresden was militarily unjustifiable, an act of rage and retribution for Germany's ceaseless bombing of London and other parts of England. Now, Frederick Taylor's groundbreaking research offers a completely new examination of the facts, and reveals that Dresden was a highly-militarized city actively involved in the production of military armaments and communications concealed beneath the cultural elegance for which the city was famous. Incorporating first-hand accounts, contemporaneous press material and memoirs, and never-before-seen government records, Taylor documents unequivocally the very real military threat Dresden posed, and thus altering forever our view of that attack., The bombing began shortly after 10:00 P.M. on February 13, 1945. In the fifteen hours that followed, 1,100 American and British heavy bombers dropped more than 4,500 tons of high-explosive bombs and incendiary devices, leaving the ancient city of Dresden -- "the Florence of the Elbe" -- in flaming ruins and claiming the lives of thousands of its citizens. Twelve weeks later the German surrender was in hand, signaling the end of World War II. Yet today the bombing of Dresden is embedded in our collective consciousness not as the toppling blow to Nazi Germany but as one of history's cruelest wartime atrocities, a vicious and militarily unjustifiable act of vengeful retribution against a peaceful, beautiful, defenseless city somehow removed from the war-making machinery that had otherwise consumed all of Germany. What really happened at Dresden -- both the facts of the events themselves and the reasons behind the remarkable legacy of propaganda that has left us in the dark about those events for nearly sixty years -- is the subject of Frederick Taylor's ground breaking study. After careful research into British, American, and German archives (including recently discovered documents, now available after decades of communist censorship) and interviews with both bombers and survivors, Taylor -- a bilingual scholar, translator, and writer -- has created the most complete portrait ever assembled of the city, its people, and those involved in its fate. Many of his findings require a revelatory shift in how we understand these events. For instance, he demonstrates that the numbers of dead -- frequently cited in excess of 100,000 -- were greatly exaggerated, for propaganda purposes, by Josef Goebbels (Taylor estimates the actual death toll at between 25,000 and 40,000) charges that Allied pilots overhead shot down German civilians as they fled toward safety were patently false contrary to popular belief, Dresden was a city of considerable military importance, both as a transportation hub and a major producer of armaments and military provisions. Dresden: Tuesday, February 13, 1945 is the first truly informed and fair-minded history of the bombing that lives in infamy. Frederick Taylor's book, a responsible and long-overdue corrective to a sixty-year-long legacy of misinformation masquerading as fact, will be remembered for generations both as a work of enduring scholarship and as a moving, compassionate narrative of a human tragedy of historic significance.
LC Classification Number
D757.9.D7T39 2004
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