Fred will be busy from now on concentrating on writing commitments. Under a new two-book contract with Bloomsbury Publishing/Bloomsbury USA he is due to complete a dramatic account of the German hyperinflation of 1923, The Downfall of Money,and then to write a new book on the German bombing of Coventry in November 1940. Both books are also contracted to appear under the prestigious imprint of the Siedler Verlag in German translation.

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On Sunday November 13 Fred visited Coventry to participate in ceremonies commemorating the 71st anniversary of the first great German air raid on the city, which took place on the night of November 14/15 1940. Some 600 civilians are thought to have died, and great swathes of this historic British city were destroyed. Both of the November 13 events -- the Remembrance Day service in the morning and the brief prayers at the communal grave for the raid's dead that same afternoon -- were remarkable for their dignity, lack of rancour, and hearfelt desire for reconciliation. Representatives from the German city of Kiel, twinned with Coventry (on the right in picture 3), also attended both events.

"Frederick Taylor is one of the brightest historians writing today." -- Newsweek

"Taylor has great narrative gifts, as he showed in his books on the bombing of Dresden and the history of the Berlin Wall. Here his account of the last days of the war is brilliantly told … this is an enthralling narrative about a crucial period of modern Europe's history" -- The Observer

“A deeply compelling study of the peace enforced on Germany by the Allied victors at the close of World War II … Hard-hitting yet evenhanded, Taylor’s work holds tremendous relevance for our time.” – Kirkus Reviews (starred)

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