THE FIRE AND THE DARKNESS: The Bombing of Dresden, 1945

This pulse-pounding work of history looks at the life of the city in the days before one of the most devastating attacks of WWII, tracks each moment of the bombing, and considers the long period of reconstruction and recovery. A calculated annihilation in a war that was almost over, McKay takes a complex human view of this terrible night and its aftermath. 24 pages of photos.