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Jörg Friedrich


Born
in Kitzbühel, Germany
August 17, 1944

Genre
History


Jörg Friedrich is a German author and historian. Friedrich is best known for his publication Der Brand (2002), in which he portrays the Allied bombing of civilian targets during World War II as systematic and in many ways pointless mass murder. An English translation, The Fire, was published in 2006 by Columbia University Press and met with widespread critical approval. For example, the New York Times said it "describes in stark, unrelenting and very literary detail what happened in city after city as the Allies dropped 80 million incendiary bombs on Germany..... There is... an edginess to Friedrich's writing and commentary, an emotional power."

Friedrich was formerly considered a left-wing antiwar activist and described as a student Trotsky ...more

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Average rating: 3.93 · 199 ratings · 37 reviews · 36 distinct works • Similar authors
The Fire: The Bombing of Ge...
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3.96 avg rating — 197 ratings — published 2002 — 25 editions
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Brandstätten: Der Anblick d...
4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions
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14/18: Der Weg nach Versailles
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Das Gesetz des Krieges: Das...
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Die Kalte Amnestie
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Das Urteil von Nürnberg
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Freispruch für die Nazi-Jus...
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Kritik der vernetzten Vernunft
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European Approaches to Inte...
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Hauptverwaltung Stadtwerke ...
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