The air raid on Halberstadt on 8 April 1945 / Alexander Kluge ; translated by Martin Chalmers.

On April 8, 1945, several American bomber squadrons were informed that their German targets were temporarily unavailable due to cloud cover. As it was too late to turn back, the assembled ordnance of more than two hundred bombers was diverted to nearby Halberstadt. A mid-sized cathedral town of no p...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Luftangriff auf Halberstadt am 8. April 1945. English
Main Author: Kluge, Alexander, 1932- (Author)
Other Authors: Chalmers, Martin (Translator)
Language:English
Language of the Original:
German
Published: London ; New York : Seagull Books, 2014.
Series:German list.
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945 > Germany > Halberstadt.
Bombing, Aerial > Germany > Halberstadt.
Halberstadt (Germany) > History.
World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations.
Military operations, Aerial.
Germany > Halberstadt.
Luftangriff.
Halberstadt.
1939-1945
Geschichte 1945
History.
Genre:
History.
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Physical Description:138 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The air raid on Halberstadt on 8 April 1945
  • Dragonflies of death
  • Commentary on 'dragonflies of death'
  • The dragonfly
  • The long paths to knowledge
  • What does 'really' mean in retrospect?
  • Love 1944
  • Cooperative behaviour
  • Fires inside people
  • Zoo animals in the air raids
  • What holds voluntary actions together?
  • Fire-brigade Commander W. Schönecke reports
  • The run-up to the catastrophe
  • Inexplicable reactions in sandstone rock
  • How the 'flying fortresses' disappeared in Lake Constance
  • The gleam in the enemy's eye
  • Total toothache
  • News of star wars
  • W.G. Sebald: between history and natural history. On the literary description of total destruction. Remarks on Kluge.