Name: Inferno: The Devastation of Hamburg, 1943
Price: 15.29 GBP
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Author: Keith Lowe
ISBN: 9780241964248

portada Inferno: The Devastation of Hamburg, 1943

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Penguin

Author

Keith Lowe

Synopsis "Inferno: The Devastation of Hamburg, 1943"

In the last days of July 1943, British and American planes dropped 9,000 tons of bombs with the intention of erasing the German city from the map. The resultant firestorm burned for a month and left 40,000 civilians dead.Inferno is a searing account of terrifying destruction: of how and why the Allies dropped a hail of high-explosive and incendiary bombs; of blizzards of sparks, hurricane-force winds and 800-degree temperatures; of survivors cowering in basements or struggling along melting streets; of a city and its people near annihilated from above.Inferno is an epic story of human devastation and survival against impossible odds.