Review Article: Memories of the Air War: Jörg Friedrich, The Fire: The Bombing of Germany, 1940—1945, New York, Columbia University Press, 2006, translated by Allison Brown; 532 pp.; ISBN 9780231133807 A.C. Grayling, Among the Dead Cities: Was the Allied Bombing of Civilians in World War II a Necessity or a Crime? London, Bloomsbury, 2006; xii + 361 pp.; ISBN 9780747576716 Bill Niven (ed.), Germans as Victims: Remembering the Past in Contemporary Germany, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006; ix + 292 pp.; ISBN 9781403990426 Malte Thießen, Eingebrannt ins Gedächtnis. Hamburgs Gedenken an Luftkrieg und Kriegsende 1943 bis 2005, München, Dölling und Galitz, 2007; 506 pp.; ISBN 9783937904559

In: Journal of contemporary history, Band 43, Heft 2, S. 333-342