The dead cities

“ The dead cities. Were the Allied bombing war crimes? “(Org. Among the Dead Cities: Was the Allied Bombing of Civilians in WWII a Necessity or a Crime? ) Is a book by the British philosopher A. C. Grayling , which deals with the British area bombing (“ Area-Bombing ”) on German and Japanese Cities grappled in World War II . The book deals with the question of whether the Allied bombing raids can be morally justified.

Grayling concludes that the attacks against the cities and the associated civilian casualties did not shorten the war and were therefore morally reprehensible. He tries not to allow comparisons between the methods of the Third Reich and the Allies , but rather discusses the limits of legitimate warfare.

literature

• AC Grayling : The Dead Cities. Were the Allied bombing war crimes? 1st edition. Bertelsmann , Munich January 2007, ISBN 978-3-570-00845-4 (German edition of Among the dead cities. )

Reviews

• Blatant violation of the moral law , review by Rudolf Walther in Die Zeit , February 15, 2007
• Destroying what you can hit, Bert Hoppe reviewin the Berliner Zeitung , March 20, 2007
• The moral of the philosopher , review by Rolf-Dieter Müller in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , August 4, 2007