One didn't dare to inhale for fear of breathing it in. It was the sound of eighteen hundred airplanes approaching Hamburg from the south at an unimaginable height. We had already experienced two hundr
The novelist Hans Erich Nossack was forty-two when the Allied incendiary bombardments of German cities began, and he watched the destruction of Hamburg - the city where he was born and where he would
These essays by Ireland's leading economic historian range widely over topics associated with the Ireland's Great Famine of 1846-52. Ireland's Great Famine includes four previously unpublished essays,
