無差別爆撃：２０世紀の悲劇 Bombing Civilians : A Twentieth-Century History

Tanaka, Yuki (EDT)/ Young, Marilyn B. (EDT)

New Pr（2009/02発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 291 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781595583635
• DDC分類 358.414

基本説明

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.

Full Description

From British bombing in Iraq in the early 1920s to the most recent conflicts in Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon, this detailed analysis explores the history of indiscriminate bombing, examining the fundamental questions of how strategies of mass killing originated and have been employed for decades. The book includes contributions from scholars in the US and Europe as well as bold new argument by Japanese historian Tsuyoshi Hasegawa claiming that it was the Soviet invasion rather than atomic bombing that led to the Japanese surrender of the Pacific.