Bombing of Dresden in World War II

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    “Did all of us feel interested in bombing buildings only when the men we slept with were urging us on?”
    —Jane Alpert (b. 1947)

    “Luxurious Man, to bring his Vice in use,
    Did after him the World seduce:
    And from the fields the Flow’rs and Plants allure,”
    —Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)

    “[John] Brough’s majority is “glorious to behold.” It is worth a big victory in the field. It is decisive as to the disposition of the people to prosecute the war to the end. My regiment and brigade were both unanimous for Brough [the Union party candidate for governor of Ohio].”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)