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Dresden de Sinclair McKay

Dresden

Autor Sinclair McKay
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 sep 2020

Apreciem modul în care Sinclair McKay reușește să transforme un subiect istoric extrem de controversat într-o narațiune umană vibrantă, fără a sacrifica rigoarea documentară. Această ediție a volumului Dresden se distinge prin utilizarea unor surse de arhivă neexploatate anterior, oferind o perspectivă mult mai clară asupra evenimentelor din februarie 1945. Autorul nu se limitează la analiza strategică a atacului aliat, ci construiește o cronică minut cu minut a dezastrului, de la lansarea primelor rachete de semnalizare până la formarea coloanelor de foc înalte de peste un kilometru.

Credem că forța acestei cărți rezidă în echilibrul dintre detaliul tehnic și cel emoțional. McKay ne poartă prin experiențele contrastante ale celor aflați la sol: de la suferința civililor și uimirea soldatului Kurt Vonnegut, până la dilemele morale ale echipajelor de bombardament. Comparabil cu The Dresden Firebombing de Tony Joel în ceea ce privește analiza impactului politic și a memoriei colective, volumul de față este însă mult mai ancorat în textura vieții cotidiene de dinainte și de după atac. În contextul operei sale, Dresden reprezintă piatra de temelie a explorărilor urbane ale lui McKay, fiind urmată de monumentala biografie a orașului Berlin. Dacă în lucrările sale despre criptografie, precum 50 Codes that Changed the World, autorul se concentra pe mecanismele secrete ale războiului, aici el analizează consecințele sale cele mai vizibile și devastatoare, oferind o mărturie despre supraviețuire și reconstrucție într-un peisaj care părea definitiv pierdut.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780241986011
ISBN-10: 024198601X
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 132 x 198 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor pasionați de istorie militară și socială care caută o analiză echilibrată a unuia dintre cele mai criticate momente ale celui de-al Doilea Război Mondial. Veți câștiga o înțelegere profundă a tragediei umane din spatele cifrelor statistice, explorând totodată modul în care un oraș își poate recupera identitatea după o distrugere aproape totală. Este o lectură esențială pentru a înțelege complexitatea morală a victoriei aliate.

Despre autor

Sinclair McKay este un istoric și jurnalist britanic de succes, cunoscut pentru capacitatea sa de a aduce la viață episoade complexe din istoria secolului XX. Autorul s-a impus în peisajul literar prin cercetările sale meticuloase asupra serviciilor de informații și a vieții urbane în timp de război. Pe lângă lucrările sale despre Dresda și Berlin, McKay a explorat fascinanta lume a decriptării în volume apreciate despre Bletchley Park. Stilul său se caracterizează printr-o combinație rară de precizie academică și empatie față de experiența umană individuală, transformând documentele de arhivă în narațiuni captivante și nuanțate.

Notă biografică

Sinclair McKay is the bestselling author of Dresden, The Secret Life of Bletchley Park, The Secret Listeners, Bletchley Park Brainteasers and Secret Service Brainteasers. He is a literary critic for the Telegraph and the Spectator and lives in London.

Recenzii

Powerful . . . there is rage in his ink. McKay's book grips by its passion and originality. Some 25,000 people perished in the firestorm that raged through the city. I have never seen it better described
Churchill said that if bombing cities was justified, it was always repugnant. Sinclair McKay has written a shrewd, humane and balanced account of this most controversial target of the Anglo-American strategic bombing campaign, the ferocious consequence of the scourge of Nazism
Beautifully-crafted, elegiac, compelling - Dresden delivers with a dark intensity and incisive compassion rarely equalled. Authentic and authoritative, a masterpiece of its genre
Compelling . . . Sinclair McKay brings a dark subject vividly to life
One of my favourite historians
This is a brilliantly clear, and fair, account of one of the most notorious and destructive raids in the history aerial warfare. From planning to execution, the story is told by crucial participants - and the victims who suffered so cruelly on the ground from the attack itself and its aftermath
McKay's rich narrative and descriptive gifts provide us with an elegant yet unflinching account of that terrible night . . . a very readable and finely crafted addition to the literature on one of modern history's most morally fraught military operations
Masterful
Along with much affecting human detail, I particularly like the way it contextualises the city's obliteration with scenes from Dresden's rich history
Extraordinary . . . a remarkably faithful account
Painstakingly researched and fascinating
Lucid, well-researched and rich in detail
Fascinating, riveting, unsettling, and wonderfully rich in period detail
McKay brings that time vividly alive but he's also alive to the moral ambiguities
McKay recounts the story of Dresden's destruction through the recollections of those who miraculously survived, creating a kaleidoscope of experience . . . His prose, even when describing gruesome destruction, is often breathtakingly beautiful. This superbly rendered story allows the reader entry into the soul of an extraordinary city
A carefully researched, finely written and moving account of one of the great tragedies of 20th-century history
There have been many books on the bombing of Dresden (not least Kurt Vonnegut's novel, "Slaughterhouse Five"), but Sinclair McKay's account is a worthy addition. McKay's purpose is neither to condemn nor condone, but to record what happened and why. Above all, he rejoices in the modern city's resurrection
Accomplished
Rich and colourful . . . [there is] a vividness and poignancy that other accounts have lacked
McKay's book is better than narrative history. It is biography, but of place, rather than person. He makes Dresden come alive, before, during, and after the infernal 13th
A passionate and original account of the Allied bombing of Dresden in 1945, one of the most controversial evens of the Second World War
A weighty and considered investigation of events . . . an excellent book . . . providing a reliable, engaging, informative and, above all, sober narrative of events. The book will enable readers to make up their own minds - should they so desire - on the rights and wrongs of the matter. It is highly recommended
This minute-by-minute retelling tackles the big questions, but also - by drawing on the letters and diaries from the Dresden City Archive - never loosed sight of the experiences of people who witnessed, and suffered, the attach first-hand
It's a wonderful book, so absorbing, thoughtful and thought provoking, I didn't want it to end
The story of the Allied bombing of Dresden in 1945 is well known, but McKay's searing account is in a league of its own. His research is first-class, his writing elegant and emotive. He is brilliant at portraying the city's prewar beauty, grimly powerful on the horror of the firestorm, and moving and thoughtful about Dresden's rise from the ashes. By the end, I was itching to jump on a flight to Germany. That tells you about the skill and spirit of this terrific book

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A Times/Sunday Times Book of the Year

'Powerful . . . there is rage in his ink. McKay's book grips by its passion and originality. Some 25,000 people perished in the firestorm that raged through the city. I have never seen it better described' Max Hastings, Sunday Times

In February 1945 the Allies obliterated Dresden, the 'Florence of the Elbe'. Explosive bombs weighing over 1,000 lbs fell every seven and a half seconds and an estimated 25,000 people were killed. Was Dresden a legitimate military target or was the bombing a last act of atavistic mass murder in a war already won?

From the history of the city to the attack itself, conveyed in a minute-by-minute account from the first of the flares to the flames reaching almost a mile high - the wind so searingly hot that the lungs of those in its path were instantly scorched - through the eerie period of reconstruction, bestselling author Sinclair McKay creates a vast canvas and brings it alive with touching human detail.

Along the way we encounter, among many others across the city, a Jewish woman who thought the English bombs had been sent from heaven, novelist Kurt Vonnegut who wrote that the smouldering landscape was like walking on the surface of the moon, and 15-year-old Winfried Bielss, who, having spent the evening ushering refugees, wanted to get home to his stamp collection. He was not to know that there was not enough time.

Impeccably researched and deeply moving, McKay uses never-before-seen sources to relate the untold stories of civilians and vividly conveys the texture of contemporary life. Dresden is invoked as a byword for the illimitable cruelties of war, but with the distance of time, it is now possible to approach this subject with a much clearer gaze, and with a keener interest in the sorts of lives that ordinary people lived and lost, or tried to rebuild.

Writing with warmth and colour about morality in war, the instinct for survival, the gravity of mass destruction and the manipulation of memory, this is a master historian at work.

'Churchill said that if bombing cities was justified, it was always repugnant. Sinclair McKay has written a shrewd, humane and balanced account of this most controversial target of the Anglo-American strategic bombing campaign, the ferocious consequence of the scourge of Nazism' Allan Mallinson, author of Fight to the Finish

'Beautifully-crafted, elegiac, compelling - Dresden delivers with a dark intensity and incisive compassion rarely equalled. Authentic and authoritative, a masterpiece of its genre' Damien Lewis, author of Zero Six Bravo

'Compelling . . . Sinclair McKay brings a dark subject vividly to life' Keith Lowe, author of Savage Continent

'This is a brilliantly clear, and fair, account of one of the most notorious and destructive raids in the history aerial warfare. From planning to execution, the story is told by crucial participants - and the victims who suffered so cruelly on the ground from the attack itself and its aftermath' Robert Fox, author of We Were There