From the Publisher: A groundbreaking historical analysis of indiscriminate bombing from the advent of aircraft to the present war in Iraq.

Introduction / Yuki Tanaka -- British "humane bombing" in Iraq during the interwar era / Yuki Tanaka -- Bombing campaigns in World War II : the European theater / Ronald Schaffer -- Bombing war in Germany, 2005-1940 : back to the future? / Robert G Moeller -- Forgotten holocaust : U S bombing strategy, the destruction of Japanese cities, and the American way of war from the Pacific war to Iraq / Mark Selden -- Were the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki justified? / Tsuyoshi Hasegawa -- Strategic bombing of Chongqing by Imperial Japanese army and naval forces / Tetsuo Maeda -- Bombing civilians from the twentieth to the twenty-first centuries / Marilyn B Young -- United States and strategic bombing: from prophecy to memory / Michael Sherry -- Bombing and the morality of war / C A J Coady -- Aerial bombardment of civilians: the current international legal framework / Timothy L H McCormack and Helen Durham -- Notes -- About the contributors -- Index.