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by Randall Hansen

Author: Randall Hansen
Publisher: NAL Hardcover; 1 edition (July 7, 2009)
Language: English
Pages: 368
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Fire and Fury by Randall Hansen is an excellent, well- written historical inquiry into the differing strategies of. .The Tokyo fire bombing raids of March 1945 killed over 140,000 civilians alone.
Fire and Fury by Randall Hansen is an excellent, well- written historical inquiry into the differing strategies of British Bomber Command and the USAAF in the bombing of Germany World War II. Very briefly, the British bombing plan was to carpet bomb entire German cities into rubble, causing as much destruction and death as possible. The announced intention was to destroy the morale of the German people. Curtis LeMay himself remarked after the war that if the US had lost the war, he would be found guilty of war crimes.
Xiii, 352 pages, pages of plates : 24 cm. Focusing on the crucial period from 1942 to 1945, Fire and Fury tells the story of the American and British bombing campaign through the eyes of those involved: the military and civilian command in Ameri.
X, 353 . p. of plates : 24 cm. Delivers the argument that the bombing of Germany by the Allied forces in the Second World War did not only fail to win the war, but in fact prolonged i. Delivers the argument that the bombing of Germany by the Allied forces in the Second World War did not only fail to win the war, but in fact prolonged it; discusses the United States campaign which played an important and largely unrecognized role in delivering an Allied victory; and re-examines the suffering of the German population during World War II. Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-336) and index
During the Second World War, Allied air forces dropped nearly two million tons of bombs on Germany, destroying some 60 cities, killing more than half a million German citizens, and leaving 80,000 pilots dead.
Focusing on the crucial period from 1942 to 1945, Fire and Fury tells the story of the American and British bombing campaign through .
He was born in Canada and has lived in the UK, US, France, Ireland, and Germany.
Author Randall Hansen argues in Fire and Fury that the two approaches need to be considered y .
Author Randall Hansen argues in Fire and Fury that the two approaches need to be considered y because, in his judgment, they are unequal. American precision bombing, he asserts, was far more effective and far less morally fraught than British area bombing. The British began nighttime area bombing of cities because prior to 1943 that was the only way their Bomber Command could strike Germany without heavy losses.
Randall Hansen is a political scientist and historian at the University of Toronto, where he has held a.
The relentless bombing of German cities by Allied forces in the Second .
The relentless bombing of German cities by Allied forces in the Second World War continues to inflame controversy among scholars and the general public in North America and Europe. And then, as Randall Hansen recounts in the preface to Fire and Fury, there was the thoroughly unedifying spectacle of Canadian War Museum officials scrambling, in 2007, to appease some veterans by rewriting a plaque about the Allied aerial campaign. In Fire and Fury Hansen fuses these controversies by arguing that the area bombing campaign was ethically unjustifiable precisely because it was militarily ineffectual.
During the Second World War, Allied air forces dropped nearly two million tons of bombs on Germany, destroying some 60 cities, killing more than half a million German citizens, and leaving 80,000 pilots dead. But the terrible truth is that much of the bombing was carried out against the expressed demands of the Allied military leadership, leading to the needless deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians.
Maybe that’s because its title is Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany, 1942-1945. But Professor Hansen said he found it appropriate and satisfying that his book about the cost and futility of war has gained attention, accidentally or otherwise, because of the current administration in Washington.