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<p>When Nuremberg was scouted in 1945 as a possible site for the Nazi war crime trials, an American damage survey of Germany described it as being "among the dead cities" of that country, for it was 90% destroyed, its population decimated, its facilities lost. As a place to put Nazis on trial, it symbolized the devastation Nazism brought upon Germany, while providing evidence of the destruction the Allies wrought on the country in the course of the war.</p> <p>In <i>Among the Dead</i> Cities, the acclaimed philosopher A. C. Grayling asks the provocative question, how would the Allies have fared if judged by the standards of the Nuremberg Trials? Arguing persuasively that the victor nations have never had to consider the morality of their policies during World War II, he offers a powerful, moral re-examination of the Allied bombing campaigns against civilians in Germany and Japan, in the light of principles enshrined in the post-war conventions on human rights and the laws of war.</p> <p>Intended to weaken those countries' ability and will to make war, the bombings nonetheless destroyed centuries of culture and killed some 800,000 non-combatants, injuring and traumatizing hundreds o

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Author

Anthony C Grayling

Publisher

New York: Walker & Co.: Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780802714718

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, Philosophy, History

Rating

3.94 / 5 (27 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14