"This is an interesting, informative, and important work. Overall,
the quality of the essays is very high, and the focus of the book
is on a topic of great importance." . Stephen Nathanson,
Northeastern University
In this first interdisciplinary study of this contentious
subject, leading experts in politics, history, and philosophy
examine the complex aspects of the terror bombing of German cities
during World War II. The contributors address the decision to
embark on the bombing campaign, the moral issues raised by the
bombing, and the main stages of the campaign and its effects on
German civilians as well as on Germany's war effort. The book
places the bombing campaign within the context of the history of
air warfare, presenting the bombing as the first stage of the
particular type of state terrorism that led to Hiroshima and
Nagasaki and brought about the Cold War era "balance of terror." In
doing so, it makes an important contribution to current debates
about terrorism. It also analyzes the public debate in Germany
about the historical, moral, and political significance of the
deliberate killing of up to 600,000 German civilians by the British
and American air forces. This pioneering collaboration provides a
platform for a wide range of views-some of which are
controversial-on a highly topical, painful, and morally challenging
subject.
Igor Primoratz is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and Professorial Fellow at the Centre
for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University,
Canberra. His publications include Banquos Geist: Hegels Theorie
der Strafe (Bouvier, 1986), Justifying Legal Punishment (Humanities
Press, 1989, 1997), and Ethics and Sex (Routledge, 1999), and a
number of edited books, including Terrorism: The Philosophical
Issues (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004) and Civilian Immunity in War
(Oxford University Press, 2007)."
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