Among the Dead Cities (Book)
A C Grayling
Release Date: 01 Apr 2006
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 352
ISBN: 9780747576716
ISBN-10: 0747576718
Among the Dead Cities is a re-examination of the Allied Forces' aerial bombing campaign of World War II. The purpose of this book is not to question the moral courage of the soldiers who fought in the war and it is clear that the author has deep admiration for these men. However, he argues that we in the 'victor nations' have never really had to examine the morality of the Allies' policies during the war and that ours in the generation who now must undertake this examination.
Grayling asks the controversial questions 'Did the Allies commit crimes against humanity during their World War II aerial bombing campaigns against Germany and Japan?' and 'Should victory in the war allow us to draw a cloak over crimes against humanity, if they occurred?'
In the light of the human principles that emerged from the titanic struggles of the 1940s, we need to examine anew the nature, motivations and consequences of the Allied World War II bombing campaigns. We need to ask whether the Allies committed crimes against humanity during World War II?
Among the Dead Cities will be an important, fascinating book from one of Britain's leading thinkers and writers.
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Despite the vast and growing library that is accumulating on the subject of World War II, this is a book that cannot be skipped. A.C. Grayling has tackled a subject overlooked until now the morality of the Allies' bombing of civilians and written about it with grace Mark Kurlansky
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