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Death from the Skies
Dietmar Suss
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Description for Death from the Skies
The story of the mass bombing of British and German cities in World War II - and how these two very different societies tried to cope with the material devastation and psychological trauma that was visited upon them. Num Pages: 736 pages, 9 black and white in-text half-tones. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 168 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1208.
The German 'Blitz' that followed the Battle of Britain killed tens of thousands and laid waste to large areas of many British cities. And although the destruction of 1940-1 was never repeated on the same scale, fears that Hitler possessed a secret weapon of mass destruction never entirely died, and were partially realized in the VI and V2 raids of 1944-5. The British and American response to the 'Blitz', especially from 1943 onwards, was massive and incomparably more devastating - with apocalyptic consequences for German cities such as Hamburg, Dresden, and Berlin, to name but the most prominent. ... Read more
The German 'Blitz' that followed the Battle of Britain killed tens of thousands and laid waste to large areas of many British cities. And although the destruction of 1940-1 was never repeated on the same scale, fears that Hitler possessed a secret weapon of mass destruction never entirely died, and were partially realized in the VI and V2 raids of 1944-5. The British and American response to the 'Blitz', especially from 1943 onwards, was massive and incomparably more devastating - with apocalyptic consequences for German cities such as Hamburg, Dresden, and Berlin, to name but the most prominent. ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
736
Condition
New
Number of Pages
736
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199668519
SKU
V9780199668519
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About Dietmar Suss
Dietmar Süss is Professor of Modern History at the University of Augsburg. A prize-winning author and academic, he has published widely on the Third Reich, the Second World War, and themes post-war German history, and his books have been translated into several languages
Reviews for Death from the Skies
superb, sharply observed, and, it should be said, very deftly written ... Süss's investigation is so broad and so rich that it is impossible to do justice to his authoritative work in a short review ... this is a magnificent ... book, full of insight and careful judgement.
Peter Fritzsche, Seminar
Convincing and deeply researchd.
Robert Gellately, ... Read more
Peter Fritzsche, Seminar
Convincing and deeply researchd.
Robert Gellately, ... Read more