In the autumn of 2022, when I purchased the newly published book Drezno 1945. Ogień i mrok by Sinclair McKay (Kraków: ZNAK) in a Warsaw bookstore, I could not have anticipated how profoundly I would be moved by the story it told. The author vividly recounted the destruction of Dresden at the end of World War II, poignantly portraying the fates of well-known individuals who perished and those who endured the horrors of the carpet bombing.
The depictions of everyday life in Dresden, presented through a stylistically polished retrospective, came vividly to life for me—particularly as I visited the city at the beginning of 2023, still deeply engrossed in the book.
