'Are We Beasts' Churchill And The Moral Question Of World War II 'Area Bombing'
This historical reassessment of the World War II British bombing campaign notes that though in 1940 Churchill declared that he was waging &quote;a military and not a civilian war&quote; to destroy &quote;military objectives&quote; and not &quote;women and children,&quote; within eighteen months both types of targets would be struck by Bomber Command. The author searches for the reasons in &quote;three contiguous realms&quote; of strategic influence: moral (and legal), political, and military. The study concludes that although for much of the war &quote;area bombing&quote; of cities was a &quote;trag…
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- ISBN: 978-1-78289-729-3
- EAN: 9781782897293
- Produktnummer: 27965279
- Verlag: Lucknow Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 0 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 876 KB
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