LEADER 02487nam 22004933 450 001 9910163186803321 005 20230803215327.0 010 $a9781782897293 010 $a1782897291 035 $a(CKB)3810000000098016 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4808896 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4808896 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11354592 035 $a(OCoLC)975223711 035 $a(Perlego)3017832 035 $a(EXLCZ)993810000000098016 100 $a20210901d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$a'Are We Beasts' Churchill And The Moral Question Of World War II 'Area Bombing' 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aSan Francisco :$cLucknow Books,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014. 215 $a1 online resource (31 pages) 327 $aIntro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ABSTRACT -- THE AUTHOR -- The Moral Case For -- The Political Motives for Mass Bombing -- The Operational Realities and the Military Rationale -- Conclusions. 330 8 $aThis historical reassessment of the World War II British bombing campaign notes that though in 1940 Churchill declared that he was waging "a military and not a civilian war" to destroy "military objectives" and not "women and children, " within eighteen months both types of targets would be struck by Bomber Command. The author searches for the reasons in "three contiguous realms" of strategic influence: moral (and legal), political, and military. The study concludes that although for much of the war "area bombing" of cities was a "tragic necessity" meeting the 'reasonable man's' standard of what was decently allowable given the blunt weapons the Allies had" and the evils they faced, nonetheless Allied leaders could have and should have abandoned indiscriminate bombing in the last phases of the conflict, when more precise means were at hand and "Nazi power had been overmatched." 606 $aMilitary ethics 606 $aChurchill, Winston, 1874-1965 606 $aBombing, Aerial 615 0$aMilitary ethics. 615 0$aChurchill, Winston, 1874-1965. 615 0$aBombing, Aerial. 676 $a358.42 700 $aHarmon$b Dr. Christopher C$01376580 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910163186803321 996 $aAre We Beasts' Churchill And The Moral Question Of World War II 'Area Bombing$93412497 997 $aUNINA