For More Information on Dresden

Internet Resources

• Museum Bombenkrieg. Shocking images of death and destruction in the German cities.
• Winston Churchill and Dresden. From the U.K. National Archives Learning Curve resource pages. Features several important documents from the U.K. National Archives.
• Apocalypse 1945: The Destruction of Dresden. By David Irving. This is the most important work on the subject, and it is available for free. Download the entire book in compressed PDF format.
• The Fire-bombing of Dresden: An eye-witness account. By Lothar Metzger.
• The Bombing of Dresden. Resource page of Spartacus Educational.
• The Laws of War. Many documents of the Hague and Geneva Conventions, provided online by the Avalon Project at Yale Law School.
• Royal Air Force Bomber Command 60th Anniversary. A commemorative site with much information.
• Was Winston Churchill a war criminal? By Paul Gallagher, in The Scotsman, 22 Nov. 2002.

Video Documentaries

• Firestorm over Dresden. A video produced in Germany in 1997, with English narration. Witnesses to the raid and its aftermath describe the events and the terror of what it was like to be in Dresden the night of the raid.
• Death by Moonlight: Bomber Command. A video produced by the National Film Board of Canada in 1991. Presents a partially dramatized history, describing the Allied bombing campaign from the perspective of Canadian airmen. Emphasizes the morally objectionable nature of the bombing.

Books

• David Irving, The Destruction of Dresden. London: William Kimber, 1963. Revised and expanded as Apocalypse 1945: the Destruction of Dresden. London: Focal Point, 1995. An important book.
• Alexander McKee, Dresden 1945: The Devil's Tinderbox. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1984.
• Phillip Knightley, The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist, and Myth Maker from the Crimea to Vietnam. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. Revised edition, from the Crimea to Kosovo, 2000.
• Martin Caidin, The Night Hamburg Died. New York: Ballantine Books, 1960.
• Charles Webster and Noble Frankland, The Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany, 1939 - 1945. 4 Volumes. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO), 1961. Vol.1, Preparation; Vol.2, Endeavour; Vol.3, Victory; Vol.4, Annexes and appendices. These volumes published by the British government constitute the official history of the bombing campaign.
• Denis Richards, The Hardest Victory - RAF Bomber Command in the Second World War. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1994.
• Henry Probert, Bomber Harris, His Life and Times: The Biography of Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Harris, the Wartime Chief of Bomber Command. London: Greenhill, 2001.
• Robin Neillands, The Bomber War: Arthur Harris and the Allied Bomber Offensive, 1939-1945. London: John Murray, 2001. Neillands whitewashes the bombings. He even goes so far as to say that the annihilation of Dresden was morally justified because, among other things, it was a major producer of cigarettes ("a vital product for maintaining wartime morale").
• Frederick Taylor, Dresden, Tuesday, February 13, 1945. New York: HarperCollins, 2004. Another inexcusable book by a British author, who maintains that the holocaust was justified.
• Jörg Friedrich, Der Brand - Deutschland im Bombenkrieg 1940-1945. Berlin: Propyläen Verlag, 2002. ISBN: 3549071655. Describes in detail the enormous suffering on the ground. See a report of this book here.
• Jörg Friedrich, Brandstätten - Der Anblick des Bombenkriegs. Berlin: Propyläen Verlag, 2003. ISBN: 3549072007. A book of photographs, documenting the awful destruction in Brandstätten (fire sites). Not for the faint-hearted. Includes pictures of charred, mutilated bodies of women and children.
• Christoph Kucklick, Der Feuersturm - Bombenkrieg über Deutschland. Ellert & Richter, 2003. ISBN: 3831901341.
• Matthias Gretzschel, Als Dresden im Feuersturm versank. Ellert & Richter, 2003. ISBN: 3831901759.
• Egbert A. Hoffmann, Als der Feuertod vom Himmel fiel. Hamburg im Sommer 1943. Wartberg, 2003. ISBN: 383131389X.
• Klaus Honold, Darmstadt im Feuersturm ... Die Zerstörung am 11. September 1944. Wartberg, 2004. ISBN: 3831314667.
• Guido Knopp, Der Jahrhundertkrieg. Econ, 2001. ISBN: 3430155169.

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