
The Firebombing of Dresden: The History and Legacy of the Allies' Most Controversial Attack on Germany
*Includes pictures*Includes survivors' accounts of the attacks*Discusses the various debates over the morality and necessity of targeting Dresden*Includes footnotes and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents"We saw terrible things: cremated adults shrunk to the size of small children, pieces of arms and legs, dead people, whole families burnt to death, burning people ran to and fro, burnt coaches filled with civilian refugees, dead rescuers and soldiers, many were calling and looking for their children and families, and fire everywhere, everywhere fire, and all the time the hot wind of the firestorm threw people back into the burning houses they were trying to escape from. I cannot forget these terrible details. I can never forget them.” - Lothar Metzger, survivorIn the middle of February 1945, the Allies were steadily advancing against the Germans from both east and west, with British and American forces having repulsed the German offensive during the Battle o