One hundred years of bombing
To mark one hundred years of aerial bombing, we publish this detailed account of the path that led us from bombing cities, forests and target boxes to putting 'warheads on foreheads' in Pakistan and Afghanistan... our understanding of bombing has been dominated by political and military historians who focus on strategy and social historians who recover the experiences of those who were bombed.. Read Gregory’s introduction – The American way of bombing: and visit our Shock and Awe conference page.
‘It is a queer experience, lying in the dark and listening to the zoom of a hornet, which may at any moment sting you to death. It is a sound that interrupts cool and consecutive thinking about peace. Yet it is a sound – far more than prayers and anthems – that should compel one to think about peace. Unless we can think peace into existence we – not this one body in this one bed but millions of bodies yet to be born – will lie in the same darkness and hear the same death rattle overhead.’ Virginia Woolf, Thoughts on peace in an air raid (1940). Read more:
http://www.opendemocracy.net/derek-gregory/lines-of-descent?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzEmail&utm_content=201210&utm_campaign=Nightly_2011-11-10%2005:30
‘It is a queer experience, lying in the dark and listening to the zoom of a hornet, which may at any moment sting you to death. It is a sound that interrupts cool and consecutive thinking about peace. Yet it is a sound – far more than prayers and anthems – that should compel one to think about peace. Unless we can think peace into existence we – not this one body in this one bed but millions of bodies yet to be born – will lie in the same darkness and hear the same death rattle overhead.’ Virginia Woolf, Thoughts on peace in an air raid (1940). Read more:
http://www.opendemocracy.net/derek-gregory/lines-of-descent?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzEmail&utm_content=201210&utm_campaign=Nightly_2011-11-10%2005:30
