TY  - BOOK
AU  - Grayling, A. C.
TI  - Among the Dead Cities: The History and Moral Legacy of the WW II Bombing of Civilians in Germany
SN  - 0-8027-1565-6
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York
PB  - Walker & Company
KW  - Germany
KW  - World War II
KW  - Japan
KW  - 20th century
KW  - history
KW  - bombing
KW  - history 1940-1945
N2  - Is it ever right to target civilians in a time of war? Or do the ends sometimes justify the means? The twentieth century - the age of 'total war' - marked the first time that civilian populations came to be seen as legitimate military targets. At this policy's most terrible extreme came the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki but it is an issue that remains relevant today with the needs of the 'War on Terror' used to justify the use of drone strikes. In Amongst the Dead Cities, A.C. Grayling explores these moral issues in all their complexity with a detailed examination of the Allied bombing of German cities during World War 2. Considering the cases for and against the area bombing and the experiences of the bombed and the bombers, Grayling asks: was the targeting of civilians in Germany a crime? Now available in the Bloomsbury Revelations series, the book includes a new afterword by the author considering the issues in light of later conflicts up to the present day
UR  - https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/among-the-dead-cities-by-a-c-grayling-6101102.html
ER  -