Word: infernos
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Gustave D ore's Inferno has been the standard visualization of Hell ever since 1861. For graphic-minded moderns, as for Victorians, the illustrations have three sure-fire hellfire appeals: they tell the story, make a clear moral point, radiate the literal horror of a waxworks...
...from midnight till dawn H.E. bombs and incendiaries fell all over the City. ... In a little time great tawny clouds of smoke, rolling in a sumptuous Baroque exuberance, had hidden the river completely and there we were on the dome, a Classical island in a more than Romantic Inferno. It was far and away the most astonishing spectacle I have ever seen...
...first wave of Marines was in its boats, the second wave was climbing down the nets in half-moonlight. At 5 a.m. the sky lit up like the crack of doom: battleship guns were pounding Betio. Soon light and heavy cruisers joined the concert of inferno. Ashore, flames spurted hundreds of feet high. Surely, the Marines thought, mortal men could not stand such pounding...
...English officer who said he would take us on. First he wanted to make a volcano of his own. Taking an iron rod, he pierced the hot shell of a cauldron, showing us molten red inside with fiery stalactites dripping from the top. Here was Dante's Inferno in miniature. There was some thing demoniacal about it. Yet we were soon to see that magnified a thousand times...
Foreign workers returning home to Denmark and Sweden brought such descriptions of the Reich's second city, blasted by 10,000 tons of bombs in seven night raids by the R.A.F., two daylight attacks by U.S. bombers. Dante's Inferno, said one, was incomparable with Hamburg. Entire city districts were wiped out: St. Pauli, known to sailors the world over for its roller coasters, shooting galleries, beer halls and other places of amusement; Altona, the "Red district" of pre-Hitler days, where Communists and Nazis had fought bitter, bloody battles on the streets; the harbor with its huge...