Freelance author Lowe presents the 1943 Hamburg firestorm raids as a case study in WWII's defining characteristic: the tension between desire to destroy at random and will to restrain that desire.

THIS starkly revealing book details the bombing of Hamburg in the summer of 1943, from the point of view of the bombers and the Germans they sought to obliterate. Over ten days, the Allies drenched ...

It’s been some of the most striking imagery to come out of the Camp Fire. Taken from the air, drone footage shows home after home burned to their foundations, surrounded by still-green trees largely ...

Towards the end of July 1943, leaflets began falling from the sky above the city of Hamburg. Children playing in the streets whispered that the leaflets were poisoned, and ran home for fire tongs to ...

BERLIN (AP) — King Charles III commemorated the more than 30,000 people, mostly German civilians, who were killed in the Allied bombing of Hamburg almost 80 years ago as he visited the northern city ...