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Book The American Way of Bombing

Download or read book The American Way of Bombing written by Matthew Evangelista and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aerial bombardment remains important to military strategy, but the norms governing bombing and the harm it imposes on civilians have evolved. The past century has seen everything from deliberate attacks against rebellious villagers by Italian and British colonial forces in the Middle East to scrupulous efforts to avoid "collateral damage" in the counterinsurgency and antiterrorist wars of today. The American Way of Bombing brings together prominent military historians, practitioners, civilian and military legal experts, political scientists, philosophers, and anthropologists to explore the evolution of ethical and legal norms governing air warfare. Focusing primarily on the United States—as the world’s preeminent military power and the one most frequently engaged in air warfare, its practice has influenced normative change in this domain, and will continue to do so—the authors address such topics as firebombing of cities during World War II; the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; the deployment of airpower in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya; and the use of unmanned drones for surveillance and attacks on suspected terrorists in Pakistan, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, and elsewhere.

Book The Surgical   medical history of the naval war between Japan   China during 1894 95

Download or read book The Surgical medical history of the naval war between Japan China during 1894 95 written by Yasuzumi Saneyoshi and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Bombardment of Reims

Download or read book The Bombardment of Reims written by Barr Ferree and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II

Download or read book The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II written by Herbert Feis and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the decision to use the atomic bomb. Libraries and scholars will find it a necessary adjunct to their other studies by Pulitzer-Prize author Herbert Feis on World War II. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Book Hiroshima

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Hersey
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2020-06-23
  • ISBN : 0593082362
  • Pages : 210 pages

Download or read book Hiroshima written by John Hersey and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hiroshima is the story of six people—a clerk, a widowed seamstress, a physician, a Methodist minister, a young surgeon, and a German Catholic priest—who lived through the greatest single manmade disaster in history. In vivid and indelible prose, Pulitzer Prize–winner John Hersey traces the stories of these half-dozen individuals from 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, when Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city, through the hours and days that followed. Almost four decades after the original publication of this celebrated book, Hersey went back to Hiroshima in search of the people whose stories he had told, and his account of what he discovered is now the eloquent and moving final chapter of Hiroshima.

Book The Land between Two Rivers

Download or read book The Land between Two Rivers written by Tom Sleigh and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on the urgency of our global refugee crisis and our capacity as artists and citizens to confront it Tom Sleigh describes himself donning a flak jacket and helmet, working as a journalist inside militarized war zones and refugee camps, as “a sort of Rambo Jr.” With self-deprecation and empathetic humor, these essays recount his experiences during several tours in Africa and in the Middle Eastern region once called Mesopotamia, “the land between two rivers.” Sleigh asks three central questions: What did I see? How could I write about it? Why did I write about it? The first essays in The Land between Two Rivers focus on the lives of refugees in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Kenya, Somalia, and Iraq. Under the conditions of military occupation, famine, and war, their stories can be harrowing, even desperate, but they’re also laced with wily humor and an undeluded hopefulness, their lives having little to do with their depictions in mass media. The second part of the book explores how writing might be capable of honoring the texture of these individuals’ experiences while remaining faithful to political emotions, rather than political convictions. Sleigh examines the works of Anna Akhmatova, Mahmoud Darwish, Ashur Etwebi, David Jones, Tomas Tranströmer, and others as guiding spirits. The final essays meditate on youth, restlessness, illness, and Sleigh’s motivations for writing his own experiences in order to move out into the world, concluding with a beautiful remembrance of Sleigh's friendship with Seamus Heaney.

Book From the bombardment of Fort Sumter to the capture of Roanoke Island    v  2  From the capture of Roanoke Island to the battle of Murfreesboro     v  3  From the battle of Murfreesboro  to the massacre at Fort Pillow    v  4  From the massacre at Fort Pillow to the end

Download or read book From the bombardment of Fort Sumter to the capture of Roanoke Island v 2 From the capture of Roanoke Island to the battle of Murfreesboro v 3 From the battle of Murfreesboro to the massacre at Fort Pillow v 4 From the massacre at Fort Pillow to the end written by William M. Thayer and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bombing to Win

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  • Author : Robert A. Pape
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2014-04-11
  • ISBN : 0801471508
  • Pages : 547 pages

Download or read book Bombing to Win written by Robert A. Pape and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-11 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Iraq to Bosnia to North Korea, the first question in American foreign policy debates is increasingly: Can air power alone do the job? Robert A. Pape provides a systematic answer. Analyzing the results of over thirty air campaigns, including a detailed reconstruction of the Gulf War, he argues that the key to success is attacking the enemy's military strategy, not its economy, people, or leaders. Coercive air power can succeed, but not as cheaply as air enthusiasts would like to believe.Pape examines the air raids on Germany, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq as well as those of Israel versus Egypt, providing details of bombing and governmental decision making. His detailed narratives of the strategic effectiveness of bombing range from the classical cases of World War II to an extraordinary reconstruction of airpower use in the Gulf War, based on recently declassified documents. In this now-classic work of the theory and practice of airpower and its political effects, Robert A. Pape helps military strategists and policy makers judge the purpose of various air strategies, and helps general readers understand the policy debates.

Book The Port Folio

Download or read book The Port Folio written by and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Army Ordnance

Download or read book Army Ordnance written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nuclear Science Abstracts

Download or read book Nuclear Science Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 1632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Strategic Terror

    Book Details:
  • Author : Beau Grosscup
  • Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
  • Release : 2013-07-18
  • ISBN : 1848137842
  • Pages : 218 pages

Download or read book Strategic Terror written by Beau Grosscup and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a global history of aerial bombardment, this book shows how certain European powers initiated aerial bombardment of civilians after World War I, and how it was an instrument of choice in World War II. Beau Grosscup shows that such methods, used initially as a means of terrorizing native populations in Africa and the Middle East, have become the primary form of terrorism in more recent decades. While such 'strategic terror' is not classed as 'terrorism' in the West, this reflects an unwillingness to confront the human costs and immorality of aerial bombardment. Grosscup argues that if terrorism is to be diminished, the role of aerial bombing in sustaining global violence must be recognized.

Book 40th Bombardment Group  VH  History

Download or read book 40th Bombardment Group VH History written by and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 1989 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the 40th Bomb Group in the Pacific is told in this fantastic account - India, China, Tinian, Japan, etc.

Book The New International Encyclop  dia

Download or read book The New International Encyclop dia written by Frank Moore Colby and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Foreign Affairs

Download or read book Foreign Affairs written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: