Among the Dead Cities: Is the Targeting of Civilians in War Ever Justified?

Titel:: Among the Dead Cities: Is the Targeting of Civilians in War Ever Justified?
ISBN10:: 0747586039
ISBN13:: 9780747586036
Schrijver:: Grayling, A.C.
Aantal pagina's:: 400
Uitgever:: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Plaats van uitgifte:: London
Jaar van uitgifte:: 2007
Beschrijving:: Britain and the USA carried out a massive bombing offensive against the cities of Germany and Japan in the course of the Second World War, which ended with the destruction of Hamburg, Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Was the bombing of civilian targets justified by the necessities of war? Or was it, in fact, a crime against humanity? How should we, the descendants of the Allies who won the victory in that war, reply to the moral challenge of the descendants of those whose cities were targeted? A. C. Grayling looks at the stands people took, both for and against, and crucially asks what the lessons are that we can learn for today about how people should behave in a world of tension and moral confusion, of terrorism and fragile democracies. Among the Dead Cities is both a lucid and revealing work of modern history and an investigation of conscience into one of the last remaining controversies of that time.

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