The Air Raid on Halberstadt on 8 April 1945
On April 8, 1945, several American bomber squadrons were informed that their German targets were temporarily unavailable due to cloud cover. As it was too late to turn back, the assembled ordnance of more than two hundred bombers was diverted to nearby Halberstadt. A middle-sized cathedral town of no particular industrial or strategic importance, Halberstadt was almost totally destroyed, and a then-thirteen-year-old Alexander Kluge watched his town burn to the ground. Translated by Martin Chalmers, Kluge?s Air Raid is a touchstone event in German literature of the post-war era. Incorporating photographs, diagrams, and drawings, Klug…
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Weitere Autoren: Chalmers, Martin (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-85742-079-4
- EAN: 9780857420794
- Produktnummer: 13279676
- Verlag: Sea Boating
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 138 S.
- Masse: H20.3 cm x B14.1 cm x D2.0 cm 276 g
- Gewicht: 276
Über den Autor
Alexander Kluge is one of the major German fiction writers of the late twentieth century and an important social critic. As a filmmaker, he is credited with the launch of the New German Cinema movement. Martin Chalmers is a Berlin-based translator from Glasgow. He has translated some of the best-known German-language writers, including Herta Muller, Elfriede Jelinek, and Hans Magnus Enzensberger.
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