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On the Natural History of Destruction Amy Thielen or at-dusk runsBy: W. G. Sebald Published by Random House Publishing Group, 2004 02 17 During World War Two, 131 German cities and towns were targeted by Allied bombs, a good number almost entirely flattened. Six hundred thousand German civilians dieda figure twice that of all American war casualties. Seven and a half million Germans were left homeless. Given the astonishing scope of the devastation, W. G. Sebald asks, why does the subject occupy so little space in