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To Destroy a City: Strategic Bombing and its Human Consequences in World War II.(Book Review)
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March 1, 2004|
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TO DESTROY A CITY: Strategic Bombing and its Human Consequences in World War II, Herman Knell, Da Capo Press, NY, 2002, 352 pages, $32.50.
Herman Knell, a retired Canadian citizen, was a teenage German boy during World War II. The Allies "area bombed" his hometown of Wurzburg, Germany, during the last weeks of World War II, killing 5,000 civilians and leaving 90,000 homeless.
Knell's personal experiences of losing his family home in one area and his family's business in another gave him a lifelong desire to find out why his particular city was bombed, even ...
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