Jörg Friedrich (1) (1944–)

The amount of information compiled by the author is both the main strentgh and the biggest flaw of the book.

In one hand the thorough review of the facts brings light over every detail from the reactions of the german populace, to the material damage inflected by the bombs to the war effort, the defensive systems, all the books and art works lost ... but sometimes the book becomes nothing more than a listing, for example, of numbers of houses burnt in the different cities and becomes really boring losing its touching side in the process.… (more)