Dresden: A Survivor's Story (Kindle Single)

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Dresden: A Survivor's Story (Kindle Single)

In Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut fictionalised his time as a prisoner of war in 1945. Vonnegut was imprisoned in a deep cellar in Dresden while a firestorm raged through the city, wiping out generations of innocent lives. Victor Gregg remained above ground. This is his true story.

In four air raids over two days in February 1945, the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces dropped more than 3,900 tons of high-explosive bombs and incendiary devices on Dresden. The resulting firestorm destroyed six square miles of the city centre. 25,000 people, mostly civilians, were estimated to have been killed. Post-war discussion of whether or not the attacks were justified has led to the bombing becoming one of the moral questions of the Second World War.

Already a seasoned soldier with the Rifle Brigade, Gregg joined the 10th Parachute Regiment in 1944. He was captured at Arnhem where he volunteered to be sent to a work camp rather than become another faceless number in the huge POW camps. With two failed escape attempts under his belt, Gregg was eventually caught sabotaging a factory and sent for execution.

Gregg's first-hand narrative, personal and punchy, sees him through the trauma and carnage of the Dresden bombing. After the raid he spent five days helping to recover a city of innocent civilians, thousands of whom had died in the fire storm, trapped underground in human ovens. As order was restored his life was once more in danger and he escaped to the east, spending the last weeks of the war with the Russians.

Country	USA
Author	Victor Gregg
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	1
EISBN	9781448211456
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Bloomsbury Reader
Manufacturer	Bloomsbury Reader
NumberOfPages	47
PublicationDate	2013-02-13
Publisher	Bloomsbury Reader
ReleaseDate	2013-02-13
Studio	Bloomsbury Reader

Dresden: A Survivor's Story (Kindle Single)

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