The Prophesying Nun of Dresden notes of the prophetic manuscripts. These writings, according to Baschera's novel, were mentioned for the first time by a certain Abbot Nicolas Holb in 1808 in Vienna. The author of the manuscripts, written in the form of letters, was a German nun and clairvoyant whose actual name is not known. Of her, it is only known that she was “a pious Religious born in Dresden in 1680 and died in 1706” and that “ . . . her convent was on the banks of the Elbe” River. Some of the letters were written in German, some more in Latin and
The Battle of Hamburg (book) The Battle of Hamburg (book) The Battle of Hamburg (subtitled: "The Firestorm Raid") is a book by the British military historian Martin Middlebrook describing the combined RAF Bomber Command and USAAF 8th Air Force attacks on the German city of Hamburg in the Summer of 1943. The raids were carried out under the codename "Operation Gomorrah" and the initial attack became infamous for creating the phenomenon known as a firestorm, which caused great destruction to the city and its inhabitants. The book attempts to give a non-partisan account and goes into well researched detail about the raid, which includes interviews