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Table of Contents:

• British "humane bombing" in Iraq during the interwar era / Yuki Tanaka
• The bombing campaigns in World War II : the European theater / Ronald Schaffer
• The bombing war in Germany, 2005-1940 : back to the future? / Robert G. Moeller
• A forgotten holocaust : U.S. bombing strategy, the destruction of Japanese cities, and the American way of war from the Pacific War to Iraq / Mark Selden
• Were the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki justified? / Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
• Strategic bombing of Chongqing by Imperial Japanese army and naval forces / Tetsuo Maeda
• Bombing civilians from the twentieth to the twenty-first centuries / Marilyn B. Young
• The United States and strategic bombing : from prophecy to memory / Michael Sherry
• Bombing and the morality of war / C.A.J. Coady
• Aerial bombardment of civilians : the current international legal framework / Timothy L.H. McCormack and Helen Durham.

Contributors:

Tanaka, Toshiyuki, 1949-

Young, Marilyn Blatt

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

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

World War (1939-1945)

1900-1999

Bombing, Aerial

Military history, Modern

Battle casualties

Civilian war casualties

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

viii, 291 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Call Numbers:

D431 .B66 2009

ISBNs:

9781595583635 (hbk.)
1595583637 (hbk.)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2008027814

OCLC Numbers:

227016126