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Bombing the city : civilian accounts of the Air War in Britain and Japan, 1939-1945

Moore, Aaron William, 1977- author

Overview

\"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 Allied 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 felt firsthand its terrible impact at home\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Britain, Battle of, Great Britain, 1940. / World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Japan. / HISTORY / Military / General.
• ISBN: 9781108428255, 1108428258, 9781108446525, 1108446523

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
D756.5.A78 M66 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE