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Article: IN THE ASHES OF AN INFERNO, A LINGERING DEBATE
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 27, 2006
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[PUBLISHED CORRECTION - DATE: Wednesday, September 6, 2006:
Correction: In an interview in the Aug. 27 Books section, historian
A. C. Grayling incorrectly described the death of former Secretary of
War Henry Lewis Stimson in 1950 as a suicide. Stimson's official
cause of death was natural causes.)
In "Among the Dead Cities: The History and Moral Legacy of the
WWII Bombing of Civilians in Germany and Japan" (Walker, $25.95), A.
C. Grayling investigates the Allied bombing of civilians termed "area
bombing" and asks whether it was legal, moral, or necessary. He
coolly yet compassionately examines arguments on both sides before
delivering judgment on a bombing campaign that killed some 800,000 ...