Air raid
Kluge, Alexander, 1932-2012
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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 200 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-13-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 postwar era.
Main title:
Air raid / by Alexander Kluge ; translated by Martin Chalmers ; with an afterword by W.G. Sebald.
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Imprint:
London : Seagull, 2012.
Collation:
144 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Notes:
Translated from the German.
ISBN:
9780857420794 (hbk)0857420798 (hbk)
Dewey class:
940.5'421318
Local class:
940.5421
Language:
EnglishGerman
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BRN:
1631916