Bombing civilians
Subtitle: a twentieth-century history
By: edited by Marilyn B. Young and Yuki Tanaka.
Contributors: Young, Marilyn Blatt.; Tanaka, Toshiyuki, 1949-
Publisher: New Press; Distributed by W.W. Norton
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9781595583635
Subjects: Military history, Modern -- 20th century; Civilian war casualties -- History -- 20th century; Bombing, Aerial -- History -- 20th century; World War, 1939-1945 -- Casualties; World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American
Description: From the Publisher: A groundbreaking historical analysis of indiscriminate bombing from the advent of aircraft to the present war in Iraq.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: British "humane bombing" in Iraq during the inter-war era / by Yuki Tanaka; title: The bombing campaigns in World War II : the European theatre / by Ronald Schaffer; title: The bombing war in Germany, 2005-1940 : back to the future? / by Robert G. Moeller; title: A forgotten holocaust : U.S. bombing strategy, the destruction of Japanese cities, and the American way of war from the Pacific War to Iraq / by Mark Selden; title: Were the atomic bombings of Hiroshima/Nagasaki justified? / by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa; title: Strategic bombing of Chongqing by Imperial Japanese army and naval forces / by Tetsuo Maeda; title: Bombing civilians from the twentieth to the twenty-first centuries / by Marilyn B. Young; title: The United States and strategic bombing : from prophecy to memory / by Michael Sherry; title: Bombing and the morality of war / by C.A.J. Coady; title: Aerial bombardment of civilians : the current international legal framework / by Timothy L.H. McCormack and Helen Durham.