The deaths of others: the fate of civilians in America's wars
John Tirman
- Resource Type:
- Book (Print/Paper)
- Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2011]
- Copyright:
- ©2011
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- Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Death and remembrance in America's wars
- American wars and the culture of violence
- Strategic bombing in the Second World War
- The Korean War : the hegemony of forgetting
- The Vietnam War : the high cost of credibility
- The Reagan doctrine : savage war by proxy
- Iraq : the twenty years' war
- Afghanistan : hot pursuit on terrorism's frontier
- Three atrocities and the rules of engagement
- Counting : a single death is a tragedy, a million deaths are a statistic
- The epistemology of war.
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- Languages:
- English
- Language Notes:
- Item content: English
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- General Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Physical Description:
- 408 pages ; 25 cm
- Call Numbers:
- E840.4 .T57 2011
- ISBNs:
- 9780195381214 (hbk, acid-free paper)
0195381211 (hbk, acid-free paper) - Library of Congress Control Numbers:
- 2010046707
- OCLC Numbers:
- 671709679