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F.J.P. Veale - Advance to Barbarism: The Development of Total Warfare from Sarajevo to Hiroshima

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F.J.P. Veale - Advance to Barbarism: The Development of Total Warfare from Sarajevo to Hiroshima

F.J.P. Veale - Advance to Barbarism: The Development of Total Warfare from Sarajevo to Hiroshima
2013 | ISBN: 1300976128 | English | 372 pages | PDF | 1.3 MB

Who started the mass bombing of civilians in World War Ii? This book proves, with clinical detail, that it was the Allies, and not the Germans, who started the "blitz" and once underway, carried it to the most extreme murderous ends. The author, a legally-trained expert, shows how European conflicts for 200 years prior to 1939 had an unwritten agreement to avoid involving civilians in warfare and gives several historical examples where victors exercised non-vindictive restraint in dealing with the vanquished. This code of conduct, however, vanished in an orgy of hatred in the 1939-1945 conflict. Veale is meticulous in his arguments and cites cabinet meeting transcripts, memoirs of those involved in the decision-making, and many other sources to prove that the British and Americans were the first and the best at killing innocent civilians-and that if there had been any justice at Nuremburg, the accused would have included the Allied leaders as well.