Bombsite

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Bomb damage to the City of London in 1945

A bombsite is the wreckage that remains after a bomb has destroyed a building or other structure.

World War II bombsites

After

Anderson
' type nearby.

In London,

Dresden suffered a previously unprecedented level of destruction.[6]

In literature and media

The rubble of

The Third Man, written by Graham Greene, an author who would return to this bombsite motif again in his 1954 short story "The Destructors
".

See also

References

  1. ^ Clark, Fred (8 May 2005). "Bombed Houses and Bomb Sites". WW2 People's War: An archive of World War Two memories – written by the public, gathered by the BBC. BBC. Archived from the original on 12 October 2011. Retrieved 8 September 2010.
  2. ^ Hill, Roy J. (19 February 2009). "Britain at War: Bomb sites were interesting". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 11 May 2009. Retrieved 8 September 2010.
  3. ^ Schofield, John; Johnson, William Gray; Beck, Colleen M. (2004). Materiel Culture: The Archaeology of Twentieth-Century Conflict. One World Archaeology. Vol. 44. Taylor and Francis. .
  4. ^ Stephan, Hans (January 1959). "Rebuilding Berlin". The Town Planning Review. 29 (4). Liverpool University Press: 207–226.
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    .
  5. ^ New Society. 59. New Society Ltd.: 217–218 1982. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. ^ "Photo Gallery: Dresden's Postwar Ambitions Divide Architects". Der Spiegel.

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