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Lowe Keith
Книга "Inferno: The Devastation of Hamburg, 1943"
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Inferno Inferno The Devastation of...
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Inferno Inferno The Devastation of Hamburg, 1943 ...
PART ONE Hamburg 1. City on the R...
2. The Anglophile City I am the enemy you killed, my friend ...
3. City of Rebellion All that is solid melts into air, all tha...
4. The Rise of the Nazis Clear the streets for the brown batta...
5. Hamburg Prepares for War Truly, I live in dark times! ...
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of the city centre, complete with imitation streets and false buildings. The idea was that Br...
PART TWO Darkness Falls from the Air ...
7. The Grand Alliance … they have sown the wind, and they shal...
8. The British Plan Technology is making gestures precise and ...
9. The First Strike I know death hath ten thousand several doo...
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Ten minutes later the flight engineer in each of the leading aircraft climbed over the main s...
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the crews were not only British. The Polish airmen in Bomber Command had a reputation for bei...
10. The Devastation Begins The fronts draw nearer, the nights ...
11. The Americans Join the Fray There is many a ...
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in larger numbers. The Hamburg and Kiel wings would look out for each other on the way home. ...
12. The Luftwaffe Strikes Back No plan su...
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they approached the coast of Europe they lapsed into silence, as all eyes concentrated on com...
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and level until they had taken their target photographs. Only then could they follow the grou...
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lost seven planes that afternoon, six from the same squadron, the 544th, which was all but wi...
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the prop wash of another B-17 while he was coming in to land, and the sudden turbulence tosse...
13. The Americans Again They know that if a flaming bullet com...
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The 303rd BG, which was supposed to be leading the Klöckner wing, failed to find either of it...
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areas received dozens of direct hits simultaneously, but apart from those who were in the are...
14. The Eye of the Storm First the left a...
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polish was flowing down the road: residents had to step barefoot through the hot liquid to ge...
15. Concentrated Bombing The guiding principle of bombing acti...
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of raids. Over the course of their four raids on the city the RAF attacked in turn from the n...
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but he would never come and look up. I remember saying, ‘For Christ’s sake, Smithy, look at t...
16. Firestorm What if the breath that kindled those grim fires...
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probably not have spread further. A feature of firestorms is that, because all the winds blow...
17. The ‘Terror of Hamburg’ A stream of haggard, terrified ref...
18. Coup de Grâce I am in blood S...
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had been so effective when it was first introduced just five nights ago, was already losing i...
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and Barmbek, causing huge destruction in the north-east of the city. The original target to t...
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sheer insanity of the war that had overtaken them: the Jakobi Friedhof, a huge graveyard on t...
19. The Tempest For my part, I have walk’...
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not see to pull out of his attacking run and crashed into Flight Sergeant J. A. Couper’s 75 S...
PART THREE The Aftermath 20. City...
21. Survival Look not behind thee… lest t...
22. Famine Eating no longer seemed a pleasant ne...
23. The Reckoning You can’t have this kind of wa...
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normally associated with conventional bombing: it was more akin to the annihilation that woul...
24. Redemption This only is denied even to God, The power to m...
1. Churchill and Roosevelt at the Casablanca Conference, where the Com...
Appendix A Chronology of Hamburg ...
Appendix B Chronology of the Second World War ...
Appendix C Chronology of ‘Operation Gomorrah’ ...
Appendix D Comparison of British, American and German T...
Appendix E British Order of Battle, 24 July 1943 ...
Appendix F American Order of Battle, 24 July 1943 ...
Appendix G Luftwaffe Order of Battle of Fighters in the...
Appendix H Air Force Casualties ...
Appendix I Tables of Stat...
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Appendix J Aircraft Specifications ...
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Appendix K Financial Cost of the Hamburg Bombings ...
Notes The following abbreviations have been used throughout: BBSU...
Archives Consulted 1 Archives in Britain ...
Select Bibliography 1 Published books and booklets ...
Acknowledgements I am extremely grateful to the staff at the many insti...
Index Aachen 107 Abromeit, Friedrich 159 absurdity 259 ...
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