To Destroy A City: Strategic Bombing And Its Human Consequences In World War 2

To Destroy A City: Strategic Bombing And Its Human Consequences In World War 2

by Herman Knell
To Destroy A City: Strategic Bombing And Its Human Consequences In World War 2

To Destroy A City: Strategic Bombing And Its Human Consequences In World War 2

by Herman Knell

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Overview

Herman Knell was nineteen and living in Würtzburg in March of 1945 when hundreds of Allied planes arrived overhead, unleashing a torrent of bombs on the city. Würtzburg's tightly packed medieval housing exploded in a firestorm, killing six thousand people in one night and destroying 92 percent of the city's structures. Despite the fact that Würtzburg had no strategic value, the city emerged from World War II second only to Dresden in material destruction inflicted from the air. The experience led Knell to years of research on the history, development, and effects of the strategy of area bombing.To Destroy a City is the result of the author's long and unrelenting investigation. His analysis of this form of warfare, which reached its zenith during World War II, covers the history and the development of wide-area bombing since 1914, examines its wartime effectiveness and the consequences. But the extra dimension that Knell's book offers is his firsthand experience of the tension, fear, tentative defiance, and, finally, utter catastrophe of being on the receiving end of overwhelming air power. For Americans, who fortunately did not experience bombing during the war, this is essential reading.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780306811692
Publisher: Hachette Books
Publication date: 03/20/2003
Pages: 384
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Herman Knell emigrated to Canada after the war and became an engineer, publishing numerous papers in his field. His research on this book began in 1984, drawing on sources throughout the world. He currently lives in West Vancouver, British Columbia.
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