A real triumph: shocking, yet sensitive and supremely fair-minded. This is a wonderful book about hellish events.
-- Richard Holmes
The story of that hellish summer night is one Lowe tells well, unbliningly, exactly as he should...a tour de force * Sunday Times *
Compelling, startling and gripping. The definitive account of a great tragedy -- A.C. Grayling * Financial Times *
Admirable, impeccably researched and engagingly written...deserves its place on the shelves * Daily Telegraph *
Brilliantly researched. Lowe has produced many new first-hand accounts which give a human face to a tale of epic destruction * Daily Express *
Scrupulous...sensitive to all the paradoxes of the bombing war -- Richard Overy * Literary Review *
Exemplary * Observer *
Altogether a terrific book and work of research -- Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown, WWII pilot and author of 'Wings on My Sleeve'
Well written, meticulously researched...gripping and holds the attention effortlessly - Keith Lowe says he found it a compelling subject on which to write, I found it compelling to read * British Army Review *
Balanced, thoughtful, engaging...
Inferno is well researched and well written. Admirably balances the testimony of the bombers and the bombed * History Today *
Total war, Lowe shows in this extraordinary study of the bombing of Hamburg in 1943, is experienced in every sense and assails every conceivable emotion * Scotsman *
Thoughful, scrupulous, intelligent.
Inferno, humane, at times impassioned, constitues a powerful indictment of all policies that dissociate means from ends * Independent *
Meticulously researched...a powerful reminder of the human face of war * Choice *
