Sinclair McKay -"Drezno 1945. Ogień i mrok" Book

On February 13, 1945, the Western Allies carried out one of the most tragic air raids in history - the raid on Dresden. The historic city, pre-war home of artists and a pearl of architecture, was completely destroyed. 796 machines dropped 2680 tons of demolition and incendiary bombs on Dresden. Damage comparable to that caused by the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima was done. The fires and explosions killed 35,000 people.

Was this massacre avoidable? Why, at the end of the war, when the defeat of the Third Reich was a foregone conclusion, did the Allied command decide to take such a step?"

Why did the Allied command decide to take such a step?

Sinclair McKay shows the course of this action and the fate of the city. He gives voice to eyewitnesses who managed to survive the raid: the young boys, the doctor operating during the bombing, the airmen who carried out the attack. He also reaches out to American captives, among whom was Kurt Vonnegut, later author of the famous anti-war manifesto Slaughterhouse Number Five.

It is through their accounts and the recollections of dozens of others that we get an amazing picture of events that stays in the memory of every reader.

The book is written in Polish.

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Technical data
. Author: Sinclair McKay
Year of publication: 2022
Format: 150 x 235 mm
Number of pages: 448
Publisher: Sign of the Horizon