Is it ever right to target civilians in a time of war? Or do the
ends sometimes justify the means? The twentieth century - the age
of 'total war' - marked the first time that civilian populations
came to be seen as legitimate military targets. At this policy's
most terrible extreme came the dropping of the atomic bomb on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki but it is an issue that remains relevant
today with the needs of the 'War on Terror' used to justify the use
of drone strikes. In "Amongst the Dead Cities," A.C. Grayling
explores these moral issues in all their complexity with a detailed
examination of the Allied bombing of German cities during World War
2. Considering the cases for and against the area bombing and the
experiences of the bombed and the bombers, Grayling asks: was the
targeting of civilians in Germany a crime? Now available in the
Bloomsbury Revelations series, the book includes a new afterword by
the author considering the issues in light of later conflicts up to
the present day.
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