Title: Bombing civilians : a twentieth-century history /
Authors: Tanaka, Toshiyuki, 1949-; Young, Marilyn Blatt.
Publisher: New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Military history, Modern; Civilian war casualties History; Bombing, Aerial History; World War, 1939-1945 Casualties.; World War, 1939-1945 Aerial operations, American.
Abstract: From the Publisher: A groundbreaking historical analysis of indiscriminate bombing from the advent of aircraft to the present war in Iraq.
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.