Dresden by Frederick Taylor

Dresden by Frederick Taylor

"A picture markedly different from conventional accounts." --New York Times Book Review

The dramatic and controversial account that completely re-examines the Allied attack on Dresden

For decades it has been assumed that the Allied bombing of Dresden was militarily unjustifiable, an act of rage and retribution for Germany's ceaseless bombing of London and other parts of England.

In Dresden, Frederick Taylor's groundbreaking research offers a completely new examination of the facts, and reveals that Dresden was a highly-militarized city actively involved in the production of military armaments and communications concealed beneath the cultural elegance for which the city was famous. Incorporating first-hand accounts, contemporaneous press material and memoirs, and never-before-seen government records, Taylor documents unequivocally the very real military threat Dresden posed, and thus altering forever our view of that attack.

Frederick Taylor is the author of the international bestsellers Dresden and The Berlin Wall, which have been translated into other languages, as well as the editor and translator of The Goebbels Diaries: 1939-1941. He has given talks all over the world and starred in several major television documentaries, most recently The Rise and Collapse of the Berlin Wall on the History Channel and The Wall: A World Divided on PBS. He lives in Cornwall, England, and is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.