THE NIGHT HAMBURG DIED
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Characteristics
Book cover finish | Hardcover ( square back binding ) |
Special features | Original edition ( O.E. or Or.E ) |
Condition | Used acceptable |
Number of pages | 158 |
Published date | 1960 |
Size | 17.14 x 19.68 x 1.2 cm |
Author | Martin Caidin |
Editor | Ballantine books |
Description
On the night of July 24/25, 1943, nearly 800 British heavy bombers launched one of the most massive raids of the war against the German city of Hamburg. Overpowering and confusing the German fighter forces, they unleashed 2300 tons of high explosive and incendiary bombs. Within thirty minutes, they had sown the seeds of thousands of fires in the most thickly populated districts. Ravaging and gutting, the angry flames leaped from block to block until a pillar of fire towered thousands of feet above the dying city. Winds caused by the fire up-rooted trees, ripped the roofs off houses. Now Hamburg was a roaring inferno, a gigantic torch visible for a hundred miles. It was the greatest fire in the history of the world—no force of man or nature could extinguish this cauldron of flame, no one caught in its path could survive. It would sear and consume the city until there was nothing left to burn... Drawn from official German and Allied records, THE NIGHT HAMBURG DIED is the full story of the holocaust of fire that wiped a city off the map and struck terror into the hearts of the German people.