David Irving's famous bestseller:

Apocalypse 1945: The Destruction of Dresden

The Times, London, Friday, April 13, 2007: "A well researched and dispassionate account"

The latest edition, 2007, is now available for sale and as a Free Download (1.5 MB) on this Website in Adobe Acrobat PDF format:

with maps and a Foreword by Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Saundby

WE HAVE uploaded two versions of this book. The original setting for the 1995 reprint; and the latest (2005) edition which is revised, corrected, has maps, and is in a friendlier typeface. Both are PDF files and can be read by Acrobat Reader.

Note that these files are all copyright works, and that it is absolutely prohibited to make any use of them other than for personal research or leisure reading.

 

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 Please note that some text is inadvertently omitted from the top of page 226 of some copies of the 2005 edition. Download the missing text (pdf).

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Index to Dresden air raid, February 13-14, 1945

Foreword to the original 1963 edition of The Destruction of Dresden, by Air Marshal Sir Robert Saundby

Jacket text , Apocalypse 1945: the Destruction of Dresden

An exlusive pictorial series from the book: THE BRITISH FIRE RAID ON DRESDEN KILLED A HUNDRED THOUSAND CIVILIANS IN TWO HOURS 

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