'With
reference to David Irving, Frederick Taylor and other relevant
historians and writers, discuss the different perspectives in the
debate over the Bombing of Dresden.'
The
essay question that has been designed is based upon interest of
Allied Bombings of
Germany in WW2. This has been primarily spurred on by Kevin Wilson's
book, Men
of Air The Doomed Youth of Bomber Command.
The question has been brought about by research guided by the
Extension teacher who showed the large variety of sources available.
Other sources were discovered personally. Originally the essay was
meant to be an evaluation of the debate, then turned into an argument
centrally based around the influence of Irvings's book, The
Destruction of Dresden.
However a look in retrospect led to this idea being abandoned and a
return to discussing the argument.
The
process in which these sources have been assessed and used is thus:
Rather than immediately discounting them they are still presented in
the Essay. This suited the current question of the essay as it is a
discussion of the views. However, if a view was; inadequate or prove
wrong; or suffering major complications from the opinion of the
writer, it was stated so. The two sources that drove the essay and
the debate are David Irving's Destruction
of Dresden
and Frederick Taylor's
Dresden: Tuesday 13 February 1945
and other sources to compliment the theories of each on the various
sub topics of the essay. The source choices show a balanced side of
the debate, including more than just the view of historians for
diverse essay.
The
debate has in the essay been organised into 4 sub topics; the
contextual view of the raid, the legitimacy of Dresden as a target,
the legitimacy of the method by which the city was bombed and
casualty figures for the raid. These are repeated in the essay. The
essay then offers the different perspectives of those areas in an
objective manner.
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