Research Catalog

Title

Bombing the city : civilian accounts of the Air War in Britain and Japan, 1939-1945 / Aaron William Moore.

Author

Moore, Aaron William, 1977-

Publication

• Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Description

x, 259 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

• "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"--
• "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. Aaron William Moore is the Handa Chair of Japanese-Chinese Relations at the University of Edinburgh. His research has received support from the British Academy, the Arts & Humanities Research Council, and the Leverhulme Trust. In 2014, he was awarded the prestigious Leverhulme Prize for his work in comparative history"--

Series Statement

Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare

Uniform Title

Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare.

Subjects

• Military campaigns
• Britain, Battle of, Great Britain, 1940
• Great Britain
• World War (1939-1945)
• Japan
• HISTORY / Military / General
• 1939-1945
• World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Japan
• Britain, Battle of (Great Britain : 1940)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-251) and index.

Contents

Give unto Moloch: Family and Nation in WWII -- The Muses of War: Terror, Anger, and Faith -- Romancing Stone: Human Sacrifice and System Collapse in the City -- Defending Our Way of Life: Gender, Class, Age, and Other Oppressions.

Call Number

JFE 19-4365

ISBN

• 9781108428255
• 1108428258
• 9781108446525
• 1108446523

LCCN

• 2018013121
• 40028737961

OCLC

1032582027

Author

Moore, Aaron William, 1977- author.

Title

Bombing the city : civilian accounts of the Air War in Britain and Japan, 1939-1945 / Aaron William Moore.

Publisher

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare

Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-251) and index.

Chronological Term

1939-1945

Other Standard Identifier

40028737961

Research Call Number

JFE 19-4365

JFE 19-4364