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<p><P>One of the most horrific innovations of the twentieth century was the deliberate strategy of total warfare&#151;the obliteration of entire civilian populations. The first and in many ways the most striking use of this extreme measure came nearly 70 years ago when the ancient Basque hilltop town of Guernica was destroyed by the bombs of the German Condor.<P>Ian Patterson begins with a graphic account of what happened in Guernica on April 26, 1937, and its place in the course of the Spanish Civil War. This event focused the spotlight of media attention on the town of Guernica, and established Picasso's painting as the most famous modern image of the horrors of war. Yet Picasso's <i>Guernica</i> was only one of a huge number of cultural artifacts&#151;paintings, films, novels, poems, plays&#151;to explore the idea of indiscriminate death from the air. From the Blitz to Hiroshima to the destruction of the World Trade Center to daily carnage in Darfur and Iraq, war has been increasingly directed against civilians, who constitute an ever larger proportion of its casualties. Patterson explores how modern men and women respond to the threat of new warfare with new capacities for imag

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Author

Patterson, Ian

Publisher

Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780674024847

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, History, Humanities

Rating

3.6 / 5 (19 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14