| Description |
viii, 291 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
British "humane bombing" in Iraq during the interwar era / Yuki Tanaka -- The bombing campaigns in World War II : the European theater / Ronald Schaffer -- The bombing war in Germany, 2005-1940 : back to the future? / Robert G. Moeller -- A forgotten holocaust : U.S. bombing strategy, the destruction of Japanese cities, and the American way of war from the Pacific War to Iraq / Mark Selden -- Were the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki justified? / Tsuyoshi Hasegawa -- Strategic bombing of Chongqing by Imperial Japanese army and naval forces / Tetsuo Maeda -- Bombing civilians from the twentieth to the twenty-first centuries / Marilyn B. Young -- The United States and strategic bombing : from prophecy to memory / Michael Sherry -- Bombing and the morality of war / C.A.J. Coady -- Aerial bombardment of civilians : the current international legal framework / Timothy L.H. McCormack and Helen Durham |
| Summary |
"From the British bombing of Iraq in the early 1920s to more recent conflicts in Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Lebanon, this collection analyzes in detail the history of indiscriminate bombing, examining the fundamental questions of how this theory justifying mass killing originated and why it has been employed as a compelling military strategy for decades, both before and since the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki." "Leading experts Yuki Tanaka and Marilyn B. Young have brought together a group of distinguished scholars from Japan, the United States, and Europe to offer major new arguments on indiscriminate bombing, including Japanese historian Tsuyoshi Hasegawa's claim that it was the Soviet invasion rather than the atomic bombs that compelled the Japanese to surrender in the Pacific War. With examinations of the devastating effects of war from above, Bombing Civilians will be essential reading for anyone concerned about the morality of war and international law."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-271) and index |
| Subject |
Military history, Modern -- 20th century.
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Civilian war casualties -- History -- 20th century.
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Bombing, Aerial -- History -- 20th century.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Casualties.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American.
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| Author |
Tanaka, Toshiyuki, 1949-
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Young, Marilyn Blatt.
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| LC no. |
2008027814 |
| ISBN |
9781595583635 hardback |
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