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, a native Oregonian, spent 30 years as a reporter and editor with The Wall Street Journal, the last 14 as managing editor and then executive editor. As a reporter he wrote many of the long, front-page stories that have made The Journal famous. For 10 years after his retirement there he published and edited a weekly newspaper in Coquille, Oregon. He became interested in Sacagawea's son, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, when he discovered that, although Pomp lived a long, exciting life, he'd been only the subject of essays. Taylor thought he deserved more.

This book contains what he found.

Taylor lives with his wife, Georga, on the Southern Oregon coast.

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ISBN 13	9780060006761
ISBN 10	0060006765
Title	Dresden
Author	Frederick Taylor
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Year published	2004-02-03
Number of pages	544
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