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(From The Yomiuri Shimbun/Daily Yomiuri)
New Paperbacks / Dresden
Colin Donald Special to The Daily Yomiuri
Yomiuri
Dresden
By Frederick Taylor
John Murray 8.99 pounds
Another wartime anniversary has just passed: 60 years since Allied bombers laid waste to Dresden, "Florence on the Elbe," the beautiful cultural capital of Saxony, one of the cradles of German culture, and a place where 30,000 people died in one night in a firestorm that paralleled the one inflicted on Tokyo. Known as "the raid that went horribly right," the destruction was so intense because the weather conditions were so perfect, the city was …