Bombing Civilians: A Twentieth-Century History - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 1595583637 ISBN 13: 9781595583635

Casa editrice: New Pr, 2009

Riassunto

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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Recensione

"Makes a cogent case for reassessing the effectiveness of air campaigns and how power influences accountability." —Japan Times

L'autore

Yuki Tanaka is a research professor at Hiroshima Peace Institute of Hiroshima City University and a coordinator of the Asia-Pacific Journal. He is a co-editor, with Marilyn B. Young, of Bombing Civilians: A Twentieth-Century History (The New Press).

Marilyn B. Young is a professor of history at New York University. She is a co-editor (with Lloyd C. Gardner) of The New American Empire: A 21st Century Teach-In on U.S. Foreign Policy and Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam: Or, How Not to Learn from the Past and (with Yuki Tanaka) of Bombing Civilians: A Twentieth-Century History, all published by The New Press. She lives in New York City.

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• Editore: New Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1595583637
• ISBN 13: 9781595583635
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 291
• Redattore: Tanaka Yuki, Young Marilyn B.