Considers how soldiers through the ages have met their deaths in times of war, covering such subjects as weapons and battlefield strategies while offering insight into cultural differences and the nature of military combat.
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Considers how soldiers through the ages have met their deaths in times of war, covering such subjects as weapons and battlefield strategies while offering insight into cultural differences and the nature of military combat.
"Was the bombing offensive [against civilians in Germany and Japan] a crime against humanity," writes A.C. Grayling, "or was it justified by the necessities of war? These questions mark one of the great remaining controversies of the Second World War." Their resolution, which Gr…
Explores the bombings that lead to "dead cities" in Germany, those cities that were 90% destroyed, and how that killed hundreds of thousands of civilians and destroyed cultures.
"Was the bombing offensive [against civilians in Germany and Japan] a crime against humanity," writes A.C. Grayling, "or was it justified by the necessities of war? These questions mark one of the great remaining controversies of the Second World War." Their resolution, which Gr…
Explores the bombings that lead to "dead cities" in Germany, those cities that were 90% destroyed, and how that killed hundreds of thousands of civilians and destroyed cultures.
"Two days after Jill Hunting turned fifteen, she lost her only brother, a volunteer with IVS - a model for the Peace Corps - and one of the first civilian casualties of the Vietnam War. News broadcasts and headlines announced to the world that Pete had been led into an ambush by…
A woman explores the mystery of her brother's death in Vietnam, where he was a civilian volunteer.
This work explores how the institution of public burial for the war dead and images of the deceased in civic and sacred spaces fundamentally changed how Athenians conceived of military casualties, and traces the ways in which people responded through material culture.
This study argues that the institution of public burial for the war dead and images of the deceased in civic and sacred spaces fundamentally changed how people conceived of military casualties. In a period characterized by war and the threat of civil strife, the nascent democrac…
Ashes, Images, and Memories argues that the institution of public burial for the war dead and images of the deceased in civic and sacred spaces fundamentally changed how people conceived of military casualties in fifth-century Athens. In a period characterized by war and the thr…
This work explores how the institution of public burial for the war dead and images of the deceased in civic and sacred spaces fundamentally changed how Athenians conceived of military casualties, and traces the ways in which people responded through material culture.
