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The Battle of Hamburg
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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The Bombers
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Air Raid: The Bombing of Coventry
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Why the Allies Won
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The Devil's Tinderbox: Dresden 1945
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Air Power in the Age of Total War
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The Army Air Forces in World War II,
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Der Bombenkrieg gegen Deutschland
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Notabene 1945: Ein Tagebuch
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Der Luftkrieg in Dresden: Vorgeschichte, Zerstörung, Folgen
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DRESDEN
. Copyright © 2004 by Frederick Taylor. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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*
The Nazi jargon phrase for allegedly racially pure Germans. From now on in the text, quotation marks will no longer be added. This in no way implies acceptance or validation of the term.

*
See Appendix A.

*
For a more detailed discussion of the argument over casualty figures see Appendix B.

*
See Appendix C for details of these tales.

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