A real triumph: shocking, yet sensitive and supremely fair-minded. This is a wonderful book about hellish events.
Richard Holmes The story of that hellish summer night is one Lowe tells well, unbliningly, exactly as he should...a tour de force
Sunday Times
Compelling, startling and gripping. The definitive account of a great tragedy
A.C. Grayling
Financial Times
Admirable, impeccably researched and engagingly written...deserves its place on the shelves
Daily Telegraph
Brilliantly researched. Lowe has produced many new first-hand accounts which give a human face to a tale of epic destruction
Daily Express
Scrupulous...sensitive to all the paradoxes of the bombing war
Richard Overy
Literary Review
Exemplary
Observer
Altogether a terrific book and work of research
Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown, WWII pilot and author of 'Wings on My Sleeve' Well written, meticulously researched...gripping and holds the attention effortlessly - Keith Lowe says he found it a compelling subject on which to write, I found it compelling to read
British Army Review
Balanced, thoughtful, engaging...Inferno is well researched and well written. Admirably balances the testimony of the bombers and the bombed
History Today
Total war, Lowe shows in this extraordinary study of the bombing of Hamburg in 1943, is experienced in every sense and assails every conceivable emotion
Scotsman
Thoughful, scrupulous, intelligent. Inferno, humane, at times impassioned, constitues a powerful indictment of all policies that dissociate means from ends
Independent
Meticulously researched...a powerful reminder of the human face of war
Choice