The needless destruction of Dresden on 13-14 February 1945

With the Second World War effectively won, an estimated 135,000 German people were killed for no military purpose on the orders of Winston Churchill and Bomber Harris. There is a statue of Churchill in Parliament Square and one of Bomber Harris on the Strand in central London. 

Here is an account of the needless destruction of Dresden on 13-14 February 1945, in Total War, Volume 2, by Peter Calvocoressi, Guy Wint (who went to Dulwich College) and John Pritchard, Penguin Books, 1973, pages 561 to 562.