(2012), After the Dresden Bombing: Pathways of Memory, 1945 to the Present (Basingstoke, Houndmills: Palgrave/Macmillan), pp. 276.

Aleida Assmann (University of Konstanz): 'In this fascinating book, two things come together in rare combination: an exemplary historical site with the weight of global iconicity and a paradigmatic case study that in its broad range of perspectives and approaches sets new standards for cultural memory studies.'

Bill Niven (Nottingham Trent): 'Anne Fuchs has produced a book of great sensitivity on the cultural memory of the bombing of Dresden. She traces those cultural templates that were used, reused, modified and replaced in an attempt to come to terms with an event which ultimately, eluded representation or containment. Her interdisciplinary study provides an original, insightful and poignant narratology of traumatic memory'

Peter Fritzsche (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign): ' In this far-reaching, provocative and always illuminating book, Anne Fuchs explores how representations of Allied bombing made Dresden into a global icon that was at once tendentious and exhortative. ‘Dresden 1945’ resisted both political reflection by suppressing human agency and ideological instrumentalization by producing excessive nostalgia. Fuchs’s great contribution is to show how the terrible destruction of World War II created the compelling effects of ‘the aftermath of history’.