Bombing Cities Is Just Wrong - Even When the Planes Are Ours

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CAN we be straight about the Blitz, now that it is 70 years since it began? Most of us have two absolutely clear reactions to it. The first is that dropping bombs on women and children in their homes is a wicked form of warfare.

The second is that - despite all the horrors of being bombed - the British people were not demoralised or blasted into defeatism, but worked all the harder for victory because it was the only way to get back at the enemy who dropped death on them from the sky.

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Bombing Cities Is Just Wrong - Even When the Planes Are Ours

Yet as soon as anyone suggests that we were wrong to bomb German women and ch...

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