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La Bombe: De L'inutilité Des Bombardements Aériens (2011)

by Howard Zinn(Favorite Author)

4.16 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

2895961204 (ISBN13: 9782895961208)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Lux éditeur

review 1: This is a depressing book for an American to read. Zinn does an excellent job of making his case in a very succinct way. He basically says that we have lost our way and belong in the legions with the Romans versus the Greeks. While I find his conclusions to hold up well, I also know that most of the people I have known and do know have a set of ethics more aligned to the Greeks - more humanistic, more gracious. It is a difficult matter to get a national government and its leaders to adequately express and act on the local and individual characteristics of its citizens. Perhaps the greatest lesson is that governments and corporations need firm and vocal guidance from its citizens. National politics and practices are way too far removed from real life. Would any group of loc... moreal citizens dropped the bomb not only once but twice on a civilian population?
review 2: I picked this up when I was at City Lights. It’s Howard Zinn’s last book. I didn’t know that he was a bombardier in a B-17 during WWII. This is the story of a raid he did on the French city of Royan. This was after the Germans had retreated. There was a small garrison left behind in Royan. He’s convinced that they would have surrendered any day, and that the only reason they bombed it was so that the Air Force could try out a new toy before the war ended. Wiping the city off the map didn’t enter into the equation. He draws the obvious parallels with the A-bombs dropped in Japan. less

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