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On the night of 13 and 14 February 1945, the RAF bombed the city of Dresden, causing devastating fires which obliterated the historic city centre and killed many thousands of people. Sixty years later these raids remain one of the most notorious, and also one of the most controversial, episodes in the history of the Second World War. "Firestorm: The Bombing of Dresden 1945" assembles a cast of distinguished ...

Assessment of the influence of the atomic factor on U.S.-Russian relations since the Hiroshima bombing under the Truman administration. Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-288). 317 pages 25 cm

Mevrouw Ten Have-Kasteel komt uit een gezin van 6 meisjes. Ze heeft het geallieerde bombardement op de Fokkerfabriek in Amsterdam Noord op 17 juli 1943 meegemaakt: zij was toen 10 jaar. De R.K. Ritakerk vierde die dag het 25-jarig bestaan van de parochie met een feestelijke mis. De kinderen van de R.K. scholen zaten klassegewijs in de kerk, toen de bommen vielen. Het meisje Kasteel ziet de inslag en ...

Geen titelpag. - Omslagtitel. v. ; 31 cm.

"World War II is enshrined in our collective memory as the good war - a victory of good over evil. However, the bombing war has always troubled this narrative as total war transformed civilians into legitimate targets and raised unsettling questions such as whether it was possible for Allied and Axis alike to be victims of aggression. In Bombing the City, an unprecedented comparative history of how ...

Copy documentation re the bombing of Schwarzheide concentration camp including various short articles on the subject; details of the units employed in the bombing raids; maps of the camp and environs;correspondence with archives re relevant holdings<br />German and English&nbsp;

Aerial shot from airplane with bomb craters very apparent. VS from lower altitude of bomb craters. Bill Mellor in plane, underexposed shot of another unidentified man in the plane. Aerial views of unidentified town and river.

Afkomstig uit AIR 41/55.

An interesting book about the development of the U.S. 8th Air Force in England and the combat air raids on the German ball-bearing plants by U.S. forces during the height of World War II. This August 17th,1943 raid is described moment-by- moment. Includes bibliographical references (pages 358-364) and index. viii, 373 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

A comparative analysis of the Holocaust and the Allied strategic bombing campaign against Germany and Japan during the Second World War. Far from equating the latter campaign with the Nazi murder of the Jews, and conscious of the unique features of the Holocaust, draws attention to striking parallels in the psychological, organizational, and scientific-technological factors that contributed to the ...

Subject: Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction: The Destruction of Dresden and the Excess of the Real -- Visual Mediations: Dresden in Postwar Photography and Fine Art -- Architectural Interventions I: West and East German Postwar Debates -- Architectural Interventions II: Dresden's Altmarkt and the Topology of Power -- Literary Voices I: The Built Environment and Memoryscapes in Brigitte Reimann ...

Publ. in collaboration with Media Institute for Southern Africa (MISA). 64 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-201) and index. 210 pages, 39 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

The French army in action: tanks, soldiers shooting, dead horses by the side of the road. German prisoners behind barbed wire. Close-ups of individuals as they are questioned and registered by their French captors. Scenes of destroyed buildings shot from a moving vehicle; French soldiers attempt to shoot down a plane. Refugees traveling along a road. Women and children are helped from a truck. One ...

(AT THE FRONT slate). Tanks and men around airfield. Military looking out of hatches of tank. Men stand around fire warming themselves. Coffee pot on fire. Armed half-track in FG as they guard airport. Men in half-track, two gunners and a wireless operator. Wireless operator types message, uses decoder. Half-track and trailer move away from camera on edge of airstrip. Panning past furrows on airstrip. ...

04:08:10 NR-85 Army Pictorial Service - Film Report (Silent) Effects of Bombing by USAAF in Italy, October 6, 1943. VS, Italian refugee women and children in flight, enter town, carrying their small belongings. CU, sign at improvised bridge: George Washington Bridge. LS, US Army truck moves through bomb-wrecked city passing ruined church and much debris. CU, religious statues in church. AV, town showing ...

Collectie 402: International Military Tribunal for the Far East > Bewijsstukken > Fase VI: Over de economische overheersing van China en Mantsjoerije; Fase XIII/XIV (burgers en krijgsgevangenen)

1425 P (14:00:44) Official Motion Picture Release - Bureau of PR #1589. Signal Corps. Aversa, Italy. Execution of German General Anton Dostler. Pan shot of Dostler accompanied by guards, walking down embankment steps to place of execution through early morning mists. HS, group including Chaplain walking to post on execution spot. Close shot and HS of Dostler being tied to post. LS, group of GIs lined ...

No. 634. Part 1, Italian Fascist symbols and flags as fascists celebrate Mussolini's 1922 march on Rome. Mussolini poses with Italian King Victor Emmanuel III, speaks from a balcony, and breaks ground for a new building. Scenes of highways, schools, Italians in Libya, and the Italian Army, Navy, and Air Force show Italy's progress under Mussolini. Gen. Badoglio poses. Part 2 maps the German front in ...