This week Hamburg looks back at the worst air attack on the city during the Second World War 75 years ago, which engulfed the city in flames. From July 24th to August 3rd, 1943 the allied forces ...

The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Monday March 26 2007 American and British planes bombed Hamburg in 1943. We referred to the RAF bombers as ...

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 ...

The aerial bombing in the summer of 1943 devastated the people port and buildings of Hamburg reducing a once prosperous city to nothing more than a pile of ashes Whilst Allied bombers pounded the city ...

Britain's King Charles III commemorated German victims of World War II during a historic visit to Hamburg on Friday. King Charles laid a wreath at St. Nikolai Memorial, a landmark church destroyed in ...

'Bomber' Harris or 'Butcher' Harris? Keith Lowe, author of Inferno, an exemplary analysis of the week-long bombing of Hamburg which killed more than 40,000 in 1943, masterminded by Air Chief Marshall ...

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 ...