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Article: Grayling, A.C.: Among the Dead Cities: The History and Moral Legacy of the WWII Bombing of Civilians in Germany and Japan.(Book review)
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- Perspectives on Political Science
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- March 22, 2007
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Grayling, A. C. Among the Dead Cities: The History and Moral Legacy of the WWII Bombing of Civilians in Germany and Japan New York: Walker 361 pp., $25.95, ISBN 0-8027-1471-4 Publication Date: March 2006
Nuremberg, 90 percent destroyed by bombing in World War II, was chosen as the site for postwar trials of German war leaders both for the earlier prominence of its staged Nazi rallies and for the extent of its wartime destruction. Nuremberg, said an Allied report, was "among the dead cities," a phrase that provides the title to A. C. Grayling's remarkable book Among the Dead Cities: The History and Moral Legacy of the WWII Bombing of Civilians in Germany and Japan. ...