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 are the lessons 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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ISBN
9781408827901
Publisert
2015
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Bloomsbury Publishing
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok
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