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Dresden : the fire and the darkness / Sinclair McKay.
By: McKay, Sinclair [author.]
Publisher: [London] : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2020Description: xxv, 369 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white)Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780241389683Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations | World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives | Dresden (Germany) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945DDC classification: 940.542132142
Contents:
Preface : the city in time -- I. The approaching fury -- The days before -- In the forests of the Gauleiter -- The dethroning of reason -- Art and degeneracy -- The glass man and the physicists -- 'A sort of little London' -- The science of doomsday -- The correct atmospheric conditions -- Hosing out -- The devil will get no rest -- II. Schreckensnacht -- The day of darkness -- Five minutes before the sirens -- Into the abyss -- Shadows and light -- 10:03 p.m. -- The burning eyes -- Midnight -- The second wave -- From among the dead -- The third wave -- III. Aftershock -- Dead men and dreamers -- The radiant tombs -- The meanings of terror -- The music of the dead -- Recoil -- 'The Stalinist style' -- Beauty and rememberance.
| Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 940.542132142 MCK (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 018201 |
Preface : the city in time -- I. The approaching fury -- The days before -- In the forests of the Gauleiter -- The dethroning of reason -- Art and degeneracy -- The glass man and the physicists -- 'A sort of little London' -- The science of doomsday -- The correct atmospheric conditions -- Hosing out -- The devil will get no rest -- II. Schreckensnacht -- The day of darkness -- Five minutes before the sirens -- Into the abyss -- Shadows and light -- 10:03 p.m. -- The burning eyes -- Midnight -- The second wave -- From among the dead -- The third wave -- III. Aftershock -- Dead men and dreamers -- The radiant tombs -- The meanings of terror -- The music of the dead -- Recoil -- 'The Stalinist style' -- Beauty and rememberance.