Let Us Give Thanks That Servicemen Not Academics Run Wars

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NON FICTION Among The Dead Cities AC Grayling ANDREW ROBERTS THE Anglo-American bombing campaign of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan claimed the lives of 800,000 civilians during the Second World War, which for the philosopher Professor Anthony Grayling was "unnecessary", "a moral crime", "disproportionate", and "very little different in principle from the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York by terrorists on 11 September 2001".

RAF pilots in Bomber Command ought to have refused to carry out orders to bomb German cities, he believes, but because they didn't, "in some important respects the eventual victors allowed themselves to join their enemies in the moral depths, a fact that should be profoundly and frankly regretted".

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Let Us Give Thanks That Servicemen Not Academics Run Wars

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