Firestorm: Allied Airpower and the Destruction of Dresden .

On February 13 and 14, 1945, three successive waves of British and U.S. aircraft rained down thousands of tons of high explosive and incendiary bombs on the largely undefended German city of Dresden. Night and day, Dresden was engulfed in a vast sea of flame, a firestorm that generated 1,500-degree temperatures and hurricane-force winds. Thousands suffocated in underground shelters where they had fled to escape the inferno above. The fierce winds pulled thousands more into the center of the firestorm, where they were incinerated. By the time the fires burned themselves out, many days later, a great cityknown as the Florence on the Elbelay in ruins, and tens of thousands, almost all of them civilians, lay dead.

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Date: 2021

Upload Date: 6/6/2022 12:12:56 AM

Format: epub

Pages: 368

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Language: English

ISBN / ASIN: 0679435344

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