Bombing Civilians: A Twentieth-century History
- ISBN-10
- 1595585478
- ISBN-13
- 9781595585479
- Category
- Bombing, Aerial
- Pages
- 302
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- The New Press
- Authors
- Marilyn Blatt Young, Toshiyuki Tanaka
Description
A provocative assessment of the practice of indiscriminate bombing as a warfare method explores the reasons why military strategists of the past century shifted their focus from military to civilian targets, in an account that poses key arguments about international law and the morality of war. 10,000 first printing.
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