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Stories Set in Dresden
Dresden is a Baroque city on the Elbe river in eastern Germany. Firebombed in a single February night in 1945, then rebuilt stone by numbered stone, it owns one date the way few cities do. Slaughterhouse-Five made that night immortal. Open Dresden on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
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Browse 10 books and 6 movies set in Dresden.
The Danish Girl
When Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to fill in as a portrait model Einar discovers the person she's meant to be and begins living her life as Lili Elbe. Having realized her true self and with Gerda's love and…
Slaughterhouse-Five
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time, Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world's great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy…
Memphis Belle
The "Memphis Belle" is a World War II bomber piloted by a young crew on dangerous bombing raids into Europe. The crew only have to make one more bombing raid before they have finished their duty and can go home. In the…
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, natural historian, percussionist, romantic, Great Explorer, jeweller, detective, vegan, and collector of…
Slaughterhouse-Five
Billy Pilgrim a veteran of the Second World War finds himself mysteriously detached from time so that he is able to travel without being able to help it from the days of his childhood to those of his peculiar life on a…
I Will Bear Witness 1933-41 A Diary of the Nazi Years
The publication of Victor Klemperer's secret diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. "In its cool, lucid style and power of observation," said The New York Times, "it is the…
Dresden
At a Dresden hospital in 1945 nurse Anna Mauth (Felicitas Woll) cares for badly injured British pilot Robert Newman (John Light) whom Anna believes to be a German deserter. As Allied forces close in Anna grows close to…
Errors of the Human Body
Canadian scientist Dr Geoff Burton takes up a position at a new institute in wintry Dresden in order to contribute to their most important project—a human regeneration gene—that also has the potential to make something…
The Danish Girl
Now a major motion picture starring Eddie Redmayne and directed by Tom Hooper, THE DANISH GIRL is a shockingly original novel about one of the most unusual and passionate love stories of the 20th century.Loosely…
An Elephant in the Garden
A thrilling and moving novel about an extraordinary animal caught up in a very human war, for anyone who loved The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips or The Butterfly Lion…By the award-winning former Children’s Laureate and…
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