Civilians Under Siege from Sarajevo to Troy
This edited volume analyses siege warfare as a discrete type of military engagement, in the face of which civilians are particularly vulnerable. Siege warfare is a form of combat that has always had devastating effects on civilian populations. From the near-contemporary Siege of Sarajevo to the real...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Palgrave Macmillan UK,
2018.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2018. |
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| ISBN: | 9781137585325 |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Civilians under Siege from Sarajevo to Troy: Introduction; Alex Dowdall and John Horne
- 2. Transmission and Transformation: Memories of the Siege of Sarajevo; Ivana Maček
- 3. 'This did not happen': Survivors of the Siege of Leningrad (1941-1944) and the 'Truth about the Blockade'; Alexandra Wachter
- 4. 'Like Troy, though about as much larger...as the Encyclopaedia Britannica is larger than the Iliad': Civilians and Siege Warfare during the First World War; Alex Dowdall
- 5. Siege Warfare in Comparative Early-Modern Contexts: Norms, Nuances, Myth and Massacre during the Revolutionary Wars; Fergus Robson
- 6. Between Positional Warfare and Small War: Soldiers and Civilians during the 'Desolation of the Palatinate' (1688-89); Emilie Dosquet
- 7. Before the Storm: Civilians under Siege during the Thirty Years' War (1618-1630); Jane Finucane
- 8. A Race against Time - A Fight to the Death: Combatants and Civilians in the Siege and Capture of Jerusalem, 1099; Alan V. Murray
- 9. As They Were Ripped from the Altars: Civilians, Sacrilege and Classical Greek Siege Warfare; Joshua R. Hall
- 10. Civilians under Siege in the Ancient Greek World; Philip de Souza
- Index.