DRESDEN, Germany -- Dresden is often associated with the past. Sitting at the midway point between Prague and Berlin, the city is famous for hosting the oldest Christmas market in Germany, for its ...

Winston Churchill had called for increased air raids against the population centers to swamp German authorities. This policy reminds many today of the war in Gaza – forgetting the Dresden history. The ...

Dresden’s conservatism has helped give rise to the far-right Pegida protests Dresden, the city where I lived for 10 years, has to be the only place in the world where a convicted criminal can invite ...

A statue on the tower of City Hall looking down at the ruins wrought by the Allied firebombing of February 13, 1945 Richard Peter senior, Archive Photos The bombing of Dresden in February 1945 is ...

Rising from the conservative courtyard of the Military History Museum of Dresden, a gleaming metallic wedge heads straight for the wall of the original 1873 Saxon armory building. Without pausing, ...

An interior shot of the Museum of Military History. 'This viewing platform is within Libeskind's meteorite and the view of Dresden, the fantastical city of rococo and gothic that was splintered like ...

Libeskind’s five-story addition slices through the 1873 arsenal that houses the museum. Studio Daniel Libeskind’s new home for the Museum of Military History in Dresden, Germany, opened to the public ...

Hi, I'm looking for suggestions for books to read prior to our trip to Berlin and Dresden. History (not too dry) or historic novels would be great, or biographies (again, not too dry please). Thanks.