Civilians in the Path of War

"Contributes much to the study of how armed conflicts and military forces affect the larger societies they serve and/or threaten. That the volume is so well integrated is a tribute to the hard work and skills of editors Mark Grimsley and Clifford J. Rogers. . . . This book is one that scholars, students, and concerned citizens should study with care, because only the dead have seen the end of war, and there will, sadly, be a next time."Nicholas Evan Sarantakes, State of North Carolina Department of Natural Resources This edited collection nobly aims to engage scholars in a discussion of how warfare, soldiers, and decisions made by military and political leaders affected civilians in a number of wars throughout history. . . . Each of the authors provide interesting insights and ably balance the need to assign blame for wartime atrocities without anachronistically criticizing the past based on twenty-first century standards.David E. Settje, Northwest Ohio Quarterly The essays make for gripping reading. They demonstrate that decisions to attact or spare civilians have historically been guided above all by instrumental calculationsthe question whether military operations would be better served by brutality or forbearance.Roger Chickering, War in History

Mark Grimsley is an associate professor of history at Ohio State University. He is the author of The Hard Hand of War: Union Military Policy toward Southern Civilians, 18611865 and coauthor of The Collapse of the Confederacy (Nebraska 2001). Clifford J. Rogers is an associate professor of history at the United States Military Academy. He is the author of War Cruel and Sharp: English Strategy under Edward III, 13271360 and editor of The Military Revolution Debate: Reading on the Military Transformation of Early Modern Europe.

List of Maps; Acknowledgements Introduction - Mark Grimsley and Clifford J. Rogers; 1. Justice and Necessity: The Conduct of the Spartans and the Athenians in the Peloponnesian War - Paul A. Rahe; 2. By Fire and Sword: Bellum Hostile and "Civilians" in the Hundred Years' War - Clifford J. Rogers; 3. A Brutal Necessity? The Devastation of the Palatinate, 1688-1689 - John A. Lynn; 4. Liberation or Occupation? Theory and Practice in the French Revolutionaries' Treatment of Civilians outside France - T. C. W. Blanning; 5. "Rebels" and "Redskins": U.S. Military Conduct toward White Southerners and Native Americans in Comparative Perspective - Mark Grimsley; 6. The Immorality of Expediency: The German Military from Ludendorff to Hitler - Holger H. Herwig; 7. Yeline: A Case Study in the Partisan War, 1942 - Truman O. Anderson; 8. "Contrary to Our National Ideals": American Strategic Bombing of Civilians in World War II - Conrad C. Crane; 9. Not Enough Collateral Damage: Moral Ambiguities in the Gulf War - Williamson Murray List of Contributors; Index