Table of Contents

Contributors

Introduction
Igor Primoratz

Part I: The bombing

Chapter 1. The bombing campaign: the RAF
Stephen A. Garrett

Chapter 2. The bombing campaign: the USAAF
Douglas Lackey

Chapter 3. Under the bombs
Earl R. Beck

Chapter 4. Firestorm
Martin Middlebrook

Part II: The moral issues

Chapter 5. Can the bombing be morally justified?
Igor Primoratz

Chapter 6. Four types of mass murderer: Stalin, Hitler, Churchill, Truman
Douglas Lackey

Chapter 7. Was it genocidal?
Eric Markusen and David Kopf

Part III: The debates

Chapter 8. The British debate
Mark Connelly

Chapter 9. The German debate
Lothar Kettenacker

Index

About the Author

Igor Primoratz is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University, Canberra. His publications include Banquos Geist: Hegels Theorie der Strafe (Bouvier, 1986), Justifying Legal Punishment (Humanities Press, 1989, 1997), and Ethics and Sex (Routledge, 1999), and a number of edited books, including Terrorism: The Philosophical Issues (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004) and Civilian Immunity in War (Oxford University Press, 2007).

Reviews

“Terror from the Sky raises a number of interesting questions about the often overlooked practical and moral implications of the Allied bombing of Germany. It draws our attention to the morally contentious aspects of the campaign and explains why this subject has received so little attention up until now.”  ·  English Historical Review “This is an interesting, informative, and important work. Overall, the quality of the essays is very high, and the focus of the book is on a topic of great importance.”  ·  Stephen Nathanson, Northeastern University