Choices Under Fire: Moral Dimensions of World War II (Vintage) - Softcover

"Wise, judicious, eloquent." --Geoffrey Ward"A stunning and brilliantly written case for using history as a filter to examine the great traumas of our more recent past, adding a moral compass to see the true roots of war and violence in our time." --Rocky Mountain News"Meticulous, unsparing, and a brilliant case study in the complexity -but also the necessity--of coming to moral judgments even in a time of "total war." --Sanford Lakoff, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of California, San Diego"A tough-minded, courageous, ultimately optimistic book, sure to spark debate among readers interested in the history of warfare and the future of our planet." --The Tennessean

Examines the era of World War II from the perspective of moral considerations and their implications as they reflect military action on every level, reassessing such questions as Was the bombing of Pearl Harbor justified? Should the United States have dropped the atomic bomb in Japan? and Were the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials legally justifiable? Reprint. 10,000 first printing.