Dresden: A Survivor’s Story - Victor Gregg Audiobook
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In 2011, Victor Gregg published Rifleman about his time on the front line in World War II. The experience of writing that memoir sparked long buried memories of his experience during the Dresden bombing. Whilst Kurt Vonnegut’s acclaimed Slaughterhouse-Five draws on his experience as a Prisoner of War imprisoned in a deep cellar in Dresden while the firestorm raged through the city, wiping out generations of innocent lives, Victor Gregg remained above ground. This is his story.
In four air raids between 13 and 15 February 1945, 772 Lancaster bombers of the British Royal Air Force and 527 of the United States Army Air Forces dropped more than 3,900 tons of high-explosive bombs and incendiary devices on Dresden. The resulting firestorm destroyed 15 square kilometres, or 6 square miles, of the city centre. 25,000 people, mostly civilians, were estimated to have been killed. Post-war discussion of whether or not the attacks were justified has led to the bombing becoming one of the moral issues of the Second World War.
An established soldier turning his uniform to the 10th Parachute Regiment in 1944, he was captured at Arnhem where he volunteered to be sent to a work camp rather than become another faceless number in the huge POW camps. With two failed escape attempts under his belt, Gregg was eventually caught sabotaging a factory and sent for execution. Gregg’s first-hand narrative, personal and punchy, sees him through the trauma and carnage of the Dresden bombing. After the raid he spent five days helping to recover a city of innocent civilians, thousands of whom had died in the fire storm, trapped underground in human ovens. As order was restored his life was once more in danger and he escaped to the east, spending the last weeks of the war with the Russians.
Harrowing and vivid, Gregg draws us in to the heart-wrenching, often futile attempts to save lives, and the tentative friendships and near-misses along the way.
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This post has 9 comments with rating of 5/5
April 22nd, 2023
Y’all only hate the Nazis cause they tried to do to other Europeans and Americans, what Europe and America did to the world.
April 22nd, 2023
You’re not that informed about what happened in Nazi Germany, are you?
April 22nd, 2023
Poka will never die!!!!! what….. Wrong book???? LOL
April 22nd, 2023
The_R: How to say “I’m an ignorant ass!” without saying “I’m an ignorant ass!”
April 22nd, 2023
Thanks heaps for sharing
April 22nd, 2023
Thanks again, rmoor.
April 24th, 2023
The fire bombing of Tokyo killed more people than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. We should have given the Dresden treatment to Berlin. And Frankfort. And Munich etc. You don’t want to die in a fiery conflagration? Don’t invade other countries while calling yourselves the master race. Simple.
May 22nd, 2023
What a disgusting comment by pbcaddy. The utter lack of humanity shown towards the ordinary citizens, young and old, who happened to be led by a regime he despises is, one would hope, at least in part jingoistic hyperbole. I’d like to think that he/she would not seriously endorse such a thing if it actually came down to it (indeed, listening to this book would, to anyone with the vaguest shred of compassion, invoke the opposite sentiment entirely). However, if those words were meant in all earnestness, then I must admit that one of the very rare scenarios where I would not consider the ‘Dresden treatment’ to be a terrible tragedy would be if it were to befall a fictional city inhabited entirely by pbcaddy clones.
August 5th, 2023
Hey Pezhead, you know those 6 million that were exterminated in the 1940s? They were “ordinary citizens” you demented jackass. Not seeing a lot of compassion for them in your post. You probably think that whole Holocaust thing was a hoax. You sound just that dumb.
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