The Destruction of Dresden
by IRVING, DAVID
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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About This Item
William Kimber & Co 1963. First edition of controversial author's first book, imperial octavo, black boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 255pp, illus, VG (moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, lighter tanning elsewhere) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & scuffing)
Synopsis
There can be few operations of war as causeless, as purposeless, and as brutal as the attack on Dresden during the night of February 13th, 1945.
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- Title
- The Destruction of Dresden
- Author
- IRVING, DAVID
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- William Kimber & Co 1963
- Keywords
- Second World War Two WW2 Dresden revisionist military history
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- VG
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- Gilt
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- Edges
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- Octavo
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