The Bombing of Dresden Reconsidered
Author | : Melden E. Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 588 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Decision making |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Melden E. Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 588 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Decision making |
ISBN | : |
Author | : LTC Richard A. Conroy |
Publisher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages | : 63 |
Release | : 2014-08-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1782897917 |
Precision bombing of military targets was a reality in World War II by the end of 1943. By February, 1945, the war in Europe was nearly over. Why, then at that Tate date, was the city of Dresden destroyed by allied firebombing? In addressing this quest ion, the Dresden case study examines the evolution of bombing practices on both sides during the war in Europe. Both British and American bombing policies are scrutinized. Objectives, both military and political served by the Dresden bombing, are explained. Public reaction to the bombings in the U.K. and the U.S. are discussed as well as the reaction of both Governments to those reactions. Finally, the study examines the doctrine of Just War, draws conclusions and provides commentary.
Author | : Edmund Russell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2001-02-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521799379 |
This 2001 book shows the intersection of chemical warfare and pest control in the twentieth century.
Author | : James Kirby Martin |
Publisher | : Permuted Press |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2021-10-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1642938629 |
On the ground that horrific night is a courageous young Jewish woman, Gisela Kauffmann. Having just received orders to be herded off to a concentration camp, Gisela will do anything to save herself and her family. In the air, RAF bomber Captain Wallace Campbell is torn between his sworn military duty to bomb an unarmed city crowded with refugees, and his growing conviction that total war is immoral. Surviving Dresden is told through the eyes of Gisela, Wallace, and a compelling cast of characters—a story of personal pain and suffering amid the hope, even as the bombs are falling, of restoring human sanity to a world torn apart. Masterfully sweeping, Surviving Dresden explores the depths of human courage in facing life and death, with human redemption triumphing. “An evocative, inventive tale of war and moral judgment. Surviving Dresden vividly brings to life one of the most controversial episodes of the Second World War.” —Rick Atkinson, Pulitzer Prize winning author of the World War II Liberation Trilogy “An incredibly suspenseful, powerful story with a redemptive ending. Deserves a wide reading audience, even serious consideration for the big screen. Happy to offer my highest recommendation.” —Frank Price, Former Chairman and CEO, Columbia Pictures, and Former President, Universal Pictures
Author | : Antulio J. EchevarriaII |
Publisher | : Georgetown University Press |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2014-05-28 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1626160686 |
Challenging several longstanding notions about the American way of war, this book examines US strategic and operational practice from 1775 to 2014. It surveys all major US wars from the War of Independence to the campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as most smaller US conflicts to determine what patterns, if any, existed in American uses of force. Contrary to many popular sentiments, Echevarria finds that the American way of war is not astrategic, apolitical, or defined by the use of overwhelming force. Instead, the American way of war was driven more by political considerations than military ones, and the amount of force employed was rarely overwhelming or decisive. As a scholar of Clausewitz, Echevarria borrows explicitly from the Prussian to describe the American way of war not only as an extension of US policy by other means, but also the continuation of US politics by those means. The book’s focus on strategic and operational practice closes the gap between critiques of American strategic thinking and analyses of US campaigns. Echevarria discovers that most conceptions of American strategic culture fail to hold up to scrutiny, and that US operational practice has been closer to military science than to military art. Providing a fresh look at how America’s leaders have used military force historically and what that may mean for the future, this book should be of interest to military practitioners and policymakers, students and scholars of military history and security studies, and general readers interested in military history and the future of military power.
Author | : Sir Charles Kingsley Webster |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
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Author | : Jörg Friedrich |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780231133814 |
In the final phase of the World War II, the Allies launched a bombing campaign that inflicted unprecedented destruction on Germany. This work attempts to document life under the Allied bombing, and renders the annihilation of cities such as Dresden.
Author | : Michael S. Sherry |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 1987-01-01 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780300044140 |
Includes material on firebombing and nuclear warfare.
Author | : Lewis F. Powell (Jr.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Judges |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert A. Pape |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 547 |
Release | : 2014-04-11 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0801471508 |
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.