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Dresden A Survivors Story Victor Gregg

Name: Dresden A Survivors Story Victor Gregg
SKU: BELL-8126576
Price: 31.00 USD
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

File Extension: EPUB

File size: 2.62 MB

Pages: 52

Author: Victor Gregg

ISBN: 9781448211456, 144821145X

Language: English

Year: 2013

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Dresden A Survivors Story Victor Gregg by Victor Gregg 9781448211456, 144821145X instant download after payment.

'Victor Gregg is the most remarkable spokesman for the war generation' Dan Snow
In Slaughterhouse-Five,
Kurt Vonnegut fictionalised his time as a prisoner of war in Dresden in
1945. Vonnegut was imprisoned in a cellar while the firestorm raged
through the city, wiping out generations of innocent lives. Victor Gregg
remained above ground throughout the firebombing. This is his true
eyewitness account of that week in February 1945.
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 to Dresden for
execution.
Before Gregg could be executed, 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 in four air
raids over two days in February 1945. 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.
In Gregg's
first-hand narrative, personal and punchy, he describes 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.