world war 2

They set to work at once,
sowing the sky with fire. Bursts of light flashed everywhere in the
darkness like Christmas trees, lifting their flame high into the night,
then fell back to earth in whistling bouquets of jagged flame. Barely
quarter of an hour after the raid started, the fire, whipped by the
wind, began to scythe its way through the density of that wooden city.
As they fell, cylinders scattered a kind of flaming dew that skidded
along the roofs, setting fire to everything it splashed, and spreading  read more »