The Deaths of Others
Subtitle: The Fate of Civilians in America's Wars
By: John Tirman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780195381214
Subjects: Foreign public opinion; Civilians in war; Militarism; War and society; Military History; Military policy; Battle casualties
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [369]-401) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Death and remembrance in America's wars; title: American wars and the culture of violence; title: Strategic bombing in the Second World War; title: The Korean War : the hegemony of forgetting; title: The Vietnam War : the high cost of credibility; title: The Reagan doctrine : savage war by proxy; title: Iraq : the twenty years' war; title: Afghanistan : hot pursuit on terrorism's frontier; title: Three atrocities and the rules of engagement; title: Counting : a single death is a tragedy, a million deaths are a statistic; title: The epistemology of war.