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After the Dresden bombing : pathways of memory, 1945 to the present

Comprising approx. 125,000 words, this interdisciplinary monograph of the memory of the bombing of Dresden puts forward an entirely novel theory of historical 'impact narratives', based on in-depth analysis of postwar memory discourse across an unusually extensive range of materials, including photography, journalism, architectural journals, the built environment, documentaries, TV dramas, fiction, poetry and fine art. It combines original archival research in the Dresden city archives and the Kupferstich-Kabinett with the enquiry into the remediation of the bombing from 1945 to the present. The range of sources across 70 years of history and the interdisciplinary and methodological complexity merit double-weighting.