Author:Keith Lowe
In the last days of July 1943, British and American planes dropped 9,000 tons of bombs with the intention of erasing the German city from the map. The resultant firestorm burned for a month and left 40,000 civilians dead.
Inferno is a searing account of terrifying destruction: of how and why the Allies dropped a hail of high-explosive and incendiary bombs; of blizzards of sparks, hurricane-force winds and 800-degree temperatures; of survivors cowering in basements or struggling along melting streets; of a city and its people near annihilated from above.
Inferno is an epic story of human devastation and survival against impossible odds.
A real triumph: shocking, yet sensitive and supremely fair-minded. This is a wonderful book about hellish events.
The story of that hellish summer night is one Lowe tells well, unbliningly, exactly as he should...a tour de force
—— Sunday TimesCompelling, startling and gripping. The definitive account of a great tragedy
—— A.C. Grayling , Financial TimesAdmirable, impeccably researched and engagingly written...deserves its place on the shelves
—— Daily TelegraphBrilliantly researched. Lowe has produced many new first-hand accounts which give a human face to a tale of epic destruction
—— Daily ExpressScrupulous...sensitive to all the paradoxes of the bombing war
—— Richard Overy , Literary ReviewExemplary
—— ObserverAltogether a terrific book and work of research
—— Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown, WWII pilot and author of 'Wings on My Sleeve'Well written, meticulously researched...gripping and holds the attention effortlessly - Keith Lowe says he found it a compelling subject on which to write, I found it compelling to read
—— British Army ReviewBalanced, thoughtful, engaging...Inferno is well researched and well written. Admirably balances the testimony of the bombers and the bombed
—— History TodayTotal war, Lowe shows in this extraordinary study of the bombing of Hamburg in 1943, is experienced in every sense and assails every conceivable emotion
—— ScotsmanThoughful, scrupulous, intelligent. Inferno, humane, at times impassioned, constitues a powerful indictment of all policies that dissociate means from ends
—— IndependentMeticulously researched...a powerful reminder of the human face of war
—— ChoiceAn outstanding and important book, compelling and deeply troubling
—— Peter Eade , Country LifeA hybrid of history and multiple biography, movingly chronicles the women's ordeal... [it] bears eloquent witness to the moral and material ruin of collaborationist in France
—— Ian Thomson , SevenA remarkable achievement of biographical and oral research and with a brilliant narrative and description
—— History TodayA highly fractured tale intended to resemble the crumbling nature of Money’s existence post war. Nothing is over-laboured. Each word resounds with sultry, heat-oppressive Georgia.
—— SpectatorMorrison's writing is so deft that even barely sketched characters leap off the page
—— Sunday TelegraphHome is a powerful reminder of the impact the past plays on the present
—— The TimesMorrison can say more in one word than most novelists manage in an entire book. Superb
—— Glasgow Sunday HeraldBursting with poetic language and horrific events this is a penetrating insight to the African-American experience
—— The LadyIt is a powerful set-up, building suspense and a mounting sense of anxiety
—— GuardianToni Morrison’s mesmerising prose manages to be both elegiac and visceral at the same time
—— Mail on Sunday
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