Dresden 1945: The Devil’s Tinderbox

Mar 27, 2025

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Dresden after Allied firebombing, 1945

A review of Dresden 1945: The Devil’s Tinderbox, by Alexander McKee. New York: E.P. Dutton, Inc., 1982, 1984, with maps, photographs, index

by Charles Lutton

THE DESTRUCTION of the virtually undefended German city of Dresden by bombers of the Royal Air Force and U.S. Army Air Force, in mid-February, 1945, remains one …

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