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  • Conclusion

  • Aaron William Moore, University of Edinburgh
  • Book:
    Bombing the City
    Published online:
    01 October 2018
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    18 October 2018, pp 189-214

  • Summary

    Popular support for the war effort, and its consequent devastation, should have produced a lasting hatred of war and nationalism. While some social organisations have led the movement to abolish war and modern weaponry, the social support for total war has remained and, in recent years, is growing. Government and social suppression of pacifism and anti-war views is a significant factor in contributing to the deterioration of international relations, including war. The memory of the war is also a dangerous site for contemporary society, for if it avoids discussion of the worst aspects of the Second World War, it may enable future conflicts. After we have abandoned the fallacy of the air war’s necessity in the Second World War, we may be able to accept that targeting civilians is criminal behaviour, and not any form of victory that we would like to achieve.

  • 1 - Give unto Moloch

  • Aaron William Moore, University of Edinburgh
  • Book:
    Bombing the City
    Published online:
    01 October 2018
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    18 October 2018, pp 20-49
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    The demands of modern war mobilisation necessitated attacks on the family structure by the home government, to support efforts ranging from conscription to forced labour and service work. The most conspicuous attack on the family was the evacuation of schoolchildren from major cities. Relatives nevertheless embraced pro-war rhetoric, which heightened the contradictions between nationalism and the preservation of the family. In the conflagration of mass bombing, however, a new awareness of the importance of family emerged for the Second World War generation.

  • 4 - Defending Our Way of Life: Gender, Class, Age, and Other Oppressions

  • Aaron William Moore, University of Edinburgh
  • Book:
    Bombing the City
    Published online:
    01 October 2018
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    18 October 2018, pp 146-188

  • Summary

    Second World War propaganda frequently claimed that the war was going to defend a ‘way of life’, but this was steeped in values that most people reject today. Mobilisation efforts were organised along the lines of institutionalised gender-, class-, and age-related oppression. Curiously, these divisions were almost exactly the same in both Britain and Japan, despite the fact that the countries were at war and were claimed to be culturally irreconcilable. When analysing the war experience along its social and economic lines, it is clear that the strongest divisions were not international, but internal. That is why wartime states must, in every context, preach the evangel of national unity in spite of the fact that workers, young people, and women in Japan had more in common with their counterparts in Britain and around the world, than they did their countrymen back home.

  • 3 - Romancing Stone: Human Sacrifice and System Collapse in the City

  • Aaron William Moore, University of Edinburgh
  • Book:
    Bombing the City
    Published online:
    01 October 2018
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    18 October 2018, pp 97-145

  • Summary

    Cities are inanimate, and yet they commanded loyalty and secured the affection of millions, even during bombing campaigns. Diaries and memoirs show how enemy air units deconstructed urban environments piece by piece, turning them from centres of light and power into literal death traps. Sewage, electricity, transport, food provision, gas, and medical facilities were all severely disrupted, and yet the people who resided in the cities remained to defend them. Civilians described the fires that consumed the city as if they were conscious demons, but this was a reflection of the emotional attachment they felt for the city itself.

  • Introduction

  • Aaron William Moore, University of Edinburgh
  • Book:
    Bombing the City
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    01 October 2018
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    18 October 2018, pp 1-19
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    By focusing on the dynamics of popular politics at the beginning of the twentieth century, we can see how ordinary people came to support destructive total wars; this also made them targets of enemy violence. The empires of Japan and Great Britain began as collaborators in global politics, but popular support for war abetted their eventual estrangement. Nevertheless, both experienced a similar process of mass mobilisation during the Second World War.

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