Dresden 1945: The Devil's Tinderbox Charles Lutton - Institute for Historical Review
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v06/v06p247_Lutton.html <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001loZ0UYVb7YxD_2fbAEgVGRHpOnPuD2EmWK0241_AnRzBgpAQxfhSmFMg0ltQhZ_0DP0vcAp48YUPn8cKuMiqq82dxXhzpBCgl8YsZ5YV_h6wg3Gz4dW1_JyPK1Bc7GPdUYdOf7pmCx20wY18ALBJ7ewzNPUPPkNXe1c5jvOIgQRxHwTg5_9HtWvKzPzE2Wc-B3hVdx4x21gAaymCMvMSVg==&c=k7OErxG9fq77jDLYAajSAEWmA3hK2Y5_k3cKIS0s4pnR2Ki_OOKhXw==&ch=-1IzqhabjiqZ37U5eokclki_UxkKTQfcoEOmnVSaPeoLEW8-K36gAw==> The destruction of the virtually undefended German city of Dresden by bombers of the Royal Air Force and U.S. Army Air Force, in mid-February 1945, remains one of the most controversial episodes of the Second World War ... British military historian, Alexander McKee, has produced a new account of the Dresden bombing, based in part upon an examination of official records recently declassified, as well as interviews from survivors of the attack and Allied airmen who flew in the raids. McKee had doubts about the efficacy of area bombing when, as a soldier with the 1st Canadian Army, he witnessed the results of the Allied bombing of "friendly" French towns
