Fire and Fury - The Allied Bombing of Germany and Japan

Informationen zum Autor Randall Hansen is Director of the Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies and a Chair in Politics at the University of Toronto. He was a Commonwealth Scholar at Nuffield College, a Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church, and a Tutorial Fellow at Merton College Oxford, where he ran the PPE school. He has held visiting fellowships at UCLA, the Institute for Political Science (Sciences Po), Paris, the Humboldt University, Berlin and Trinity College, Dublin. His last book, The Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany, 1942-5 was published in 2008 to great acclaim and was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award. He has given public lectures throughout Europe and North America, and regularly speaks on local, national and international radio. He divides his time between Toronto and Berlin. Klappentext During World War II, Allied bombing obliterated every major German and Japanese city. Based on extensive archival sources, interviews with bombing survivors, airmen, and published first-hand accounts, the book looks at the bombing campaign from an avowedly human perspective - Allied, German and Japanese. Zusammenfassung During World War II, Allied bombing obliterated every major German and Japanese city. Based on extensive archival sources, interviews with bombing survivors, airmen, and published first-hand accounts, the book looks at the bombing campaign from an avowedly human perspective - Allied, German and Japanese.

Product details

• Authors: Randall Hansen
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9780571288687
• ISBN: 978-0-571-28868-7
• No. of pages: 544
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 40 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, Second World War, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Second World War, 1939-1945, War and defence operations, War & defence operations