Things left out of the Proposal Part 1 - Intentions

Due to word constraints quite a lot of research and other things have not been included in the Proposal.


Intentions:
Further Research into David Irving:
My dealings into the man himself are quite one-sided, be it for valid reasons. In order to gain an objective view for myself I believe I should ask the most well known Irving supporter, David Irving. I want to ask him his methods for acquiring the information presently in his book.

Alexander Mckee:
 Mckee was a prominent figure in British history in the last century because of his discovery of the Mary Rose. His book of Dresden supports the claims of Dresden the tragedy. However since I have not read it I cannot know his source work and would like to see where his evidence comes from, possibly Irving?

A.C Grayling:
Grayling comes from a philosophical background and as a humanist wrote about the bombing of Dresden in a different manner, he is for all intent and purposes not a historian. His views on Dresden will offer a change because it focuses more so on ethics.

Kurt Vonnegut:
Slaughterhouse Five is to say simply, interesting. Vonnegut is a supremely disturbed individual caused by his experiences both personal and those of the war. I want to focus on the biographical side of his novel, he stops at various points to give his experiences of war and the bombing, the narrative side of time travelling, abducting aliens isn't going to necessarily be the focal point of my studies.

Frederick Taylor:
now considered the foremost expert on the bombings, he overturned the idea of Dresden the innocent victim, establishing the premise that Dresden, like most other German cities during the war, was contributing to the war effort via production. Taylor uses newly uncovered primary sources from East Germany to prove that Dresden was industrially active throughout the war, seemingly reacting to the downfall of Irving and his writings.

Michael Burleigh:
Moral Combat is an overview of World War II and the contentious issues in it, featuring the bombing of Dresden. To say that I have little knowledge on the book is an understatement.

Paul Addison and Jeremy A. Crang:
Firestorm is a great book due to it's multi-perspective view. It contains 10 different perspectives of the bombing, including German. Sonke Neitzal in it is heavily influenced by Frederick Taylor's Dresden, Tuesday February 13 1945, citing the book as his sources in the majority of his end notes. Hew Strachan likens bombing civilians to the naval blockade in WW1, after 9 different views of the bombing it is summed up by Paul Addison in the chapter, Retrospect. A further analyse of the book will give me greater insight into to debate and the more moderate side of the debate.