Dresden: A Survivor's Story, February 1945
Autor Victor Gregg Cu Rick Strouden Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 feb 2019
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781448217489
ISBN-10: 1448217482
Pagini: 64
Dimensiuni: 111 x 178 x 5 mm
Greutate: 0.04 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Reader
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1448217482
Pagini: 64
Dimensiuni: 111 x 178 x 5 mm
Greutate: 0.04 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Reader
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
Exclusive video interview with Victor Gregg and Dan Snow taken in Dresden in 2018 available on Dan Snow's online subscriber channel History Hit.
Notă biografică
Victor Gregg was born in London in 1919 and joined the army in 1937, serving first in the Rifle Brigade in Palestine and North Africa, notably at the Battle of Alamein, and then with the Parachute Regiment, at the Battle of Arnhem. As a prisoner of war he survived the bombing of Dresden to be repatriated in 1946. The story of his adult years, Rifleman, was published by Bloomsbury in 2011, the prequel, King's Cross Kid, in 2013 and the final part of his trilogy, Soldier, Spy: A Survivor's Tale, in 2016; all were co-written with Rick Stroud. Victor Gregg died in 2021, aged 102.Rick Stroud is a writer and television director who has directed such actors as Pierce Brosnan, John Hurt, Ian Holme, David Suchet, Celia Imrie and Joanna Lumley. Earlier in his career he was the associate producer of Brideshead Revisited. He has won an Emmy and been nominated for a BAFTA. He is the author of The Book of the Moon and The Phantom Army of Alamein: How the Camouflage Unit and Operation Bertram Hoodwinked Rommel, and with Victor Gregg has written Rifleman and King's Cross Kid. He is currently working on a book about the kidnapping by the SOE of General Kreipe from his headquarters on Nazi occupied Crete. He lives in London.
Cuprins
1. Note of Remembrance2. Grim Truth3. Overture to Hell4. Slaughter of the Innocents5. Aftermath6. The General7. Day Four8. Day Five9. Day SixAfterword: Was this the greatest war crime of all?A Note on the AuthorsAlso Available by the Author
Recenzii
Victor Gregg is the most remarkable spokesman for the war generation. Searingly honest in his appraisal of what that conflict did to the world, on society and, above all, on himself.
This is a small but extremely thought-provoking book about the Allied bombing of Dresden in eastern Germany, written by a soldier who was a prisoner of war and who was there and whose life, upon witnessing such horror, was re-evaluated. Whether you think the bombing was justified (after Coventry had suffered similar) or not, this is such a moving record written from a soldier's perspective about his enemies and the suffering that such bombing created. Read, think and read again.
It is an engaging tale and the author writes with a witty sarcasm that keeps the narrative flowing.
This is a small but extremely thought-provoking book about the Allied bombing of Dresden in eastern Germany, written by a soldier who was a prisoner of war and who was there and whose life, upon witnessing such horror, was re-evaluated. Whether you think the bombing was justified (after Coventry had suffered similar) or not, this is such a moving record written from a soldier's perspective about his enemies and the suffering that such bombing created. Read, think and read again.
It is an engaging tale and the author writes with a witty sarcasm that keeps the narrative flowing.