German novelist Nossack's brief (63 pages in this edition) contemporary account of the 1943 destruction of Hamburg by Allied bombardment is one of the small number of works available in English that ...

THIS starkly revealing book details the bombing of Hamburg in the summer of 1943, from the point of view of the bombers and the Germans they sought to obliterate. Over ten days, the Allies drenched ...

Hitler’s defeat did not end WWII, writes historian Lowe (Inferno: The Fiery Devastation of Hamburg, 1943) in this horrific account of years of violence and misery that immediately followed the war.

The nephew of a Burnbank man, whose aircraft went missing during WW2, joined together with German historians to solve the mystery of his uncle’s disappearance. Peter Lyon and his family had always ...

Hamburg 1943. A young German soldier cries out to God as his city burns. Giles Fraser finds out how he will go on to radically transform Christian ideas of God. Show more Giles Fraser hears about the ...

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2012. Pp. xix, 460. Illus, maps, notes, index. $30.00. ISBN: 1250000203. Savage Continent is a grim work. In it, novelist and historian ...