Bombing the City

Civilian Accounts of the Air War in Britain and Japan, 1939-1945

von Aaron William Moore

270 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

World War II is enshrined in our collective memory as the good war - a victory of good over evil. However, the bombing war has always troubled this narrative as total war transformed civilians into legitimate targets and raised unsettling questions such as whether it was possible for Allies and Axis alike to be victims of aggression. In Bombing the City, an unprecedented comparative history of how ordinary Britons and Japanese experienced bombing, Aaron William Moore offers a major new contribution to these debates. Utilising hundreds of diaries, letters, and memoirs, he recovers the voices of ordinary people on both sides - from builders, doctors and factory-workers to housewives, students and policemen - and reveals the shared experiences shaped by gender, class, race, and age. He reveals how it was that the British and Japanese public continued to support bombing elsewhere even as they experienced firsthand its terrible impact at home.

• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Militärgeschichte
• ISBN: 9781108428255
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 18.10.2018
• Größe: 160 x 239 mm
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press