Title: Comprehensive, well rounded and researched.
Product review: This is perhaps the emergent "revisionist" view of the Dresden bombing. Irving produced the initial, horrifying, description of the mass destruction of the allied attacks - Taylor places them in a more pragmatic wartime context, but also looks at the history of Dresden itself and shows it to be not quite the cultured, non-military city of the earlier histories of the bombings. Dresden was undefended through lack of preparedness, the RAF were by Feb 1945 professional and skilled in area destruction. The need to appease Stalin remains unanswered. Dresden had its centre ripped out - and visually still suffers today.
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