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  Bombing Civilians: A Twentieth-Century History
Price: $30.00
Edited by Yuki Tanaka and Marilyn B. Young
With contributions from scholars from Japan, the United States, and Europe, Bombing Civilians examines a crucial question: why did military planning in the early twentieth century shift its focus from bombing military targets to bombing civilians?
From the British bombing of Iraq in the early 1920s to the most recent conflicts in Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Lebanon, Bombing Civilians analyzes in detail the history of indiscriminate bombing, examining the fundamental questions of how this theory justifying mass killing originated and why it was employed as a compelling military strategy for decades, both before and since the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The book includes major new arguments, such as Japanese historian Tsuyoshi Hasegawa's bold claim that it was the Soviet invasion rather than the atomic bombs that compelled the Japanese to surrender in the Pacific War.
Combining historical and contemporary analysis, Bombing Civilians makes an important argument about international law and the morality of war.
291 pages, hardcover, ISBN 978-1-59558-363-5, The New Press, 2009.
What's related:
• Listen online to Banner Lectures about the Vietnam War experience
• Visit The Story of Virginia online exhibition
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