Journey's End ─ Bomber Command's Battle from Arnhem to Dresden and Beyond

In February 1945, British and American bombers rained down thousands of tons of incendiaries on the city of Dresden, creating one of the greatest firestorms in history, killing?an estimated 25,000 people, and wiping?one of the most beautiful cities in Europe from the map. The controversy that erupted shortly afterwards, and which continues, has long overshadowed the other events of the bomber war, and blighted the memory of the young men who gave their lives to fight in the skies over Germany. This book seeks neither?to condemn the bombing nor to excuse it, but simply to put it in its proper context as a particularly devastating set of raids in a much larger campaign. Kevin Wilson has interviewed?more than 100?people, some of whom flew on the Dresden raids, and many more who experienced other aspects of bombing, both in the air and on the ground. As the final volume in his bomber war trilogy, it chronicles the climactic period in a conflict that caused devastation and tragedy on both sides.