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Contents 8 Acknowledgements 10 Notes on Usage 12 Abbreviations 14 Abbreviations for Frequently Cited Archival Documents 16 Introduction 20 Part One: The Bombing of Pompeii, August–September 1943 32 Chapter 1: ‘La prima tragica notte di Pompei’: 24/25 August 1943 34 Chapter 2: ‘Everything we could put into the air’: Pompeii and the Salerno Beachhead, 13–29 September 1943 43 Chapter 3: Why Was Pompeii Bombed? 62 Chapter 4: Bombing Conditions, Tactics and Accuracy 73 Chapter 5: Judgements of Success, Military Necessity and Legality 89 Chapter 6: ‘The Germans were encamped on the site and allied aircraft were obliged to treat it as a military objective’: Alternative Explanations for the Bombing of Pompeii 111 Part Two: ‘Our Common Task’ 124 Chapter 7: British Military Cultural Property Protection, from Cyrene to Syracuse 126 Chapter 8: The Development of US Wartime Heritage Protection, 1942 to September 1943 143 Chapter 9: Pompeii’s Legacy? Aerial Bombardment and Cultural Heritage in Italy, 1943–1945 160 Chapter 10: ‘Any consequential damage is accepted’. Mediterranean Allied Air Forces Reforms, Successes and Failures in Cultural Property Protection, February 1944 to March 1945 171 Par

Author

Nigel Pollard;

Published

2020

Language

EN