Cities into Battlefields : Metropolitan Scenarios, Experiences and Commemorations of Total War (Hardcover)

Contents: Towards a metropolitan history of total war: an introduction, Stefan Goebel and Derek Keene; 'A promise of terror to come': air power and the destruction of cities in British imagination and experience, 1908-39, Susan R. Grayzel; '9/7', the first day of the London blitz: the context, Peter Stansky; Parisian peculiarities: the French capital in the age of total war, Patrice Higonnet; Constructing a symbol of defeat and national rejuvenation: Edirne (Adrianople) in Ottoman propaganda and writing during the Balkan Wars, Eyal Ginio; Reclaiming their city: Belgraders and the combat against Habsburg propaganda through rumours, 1915-18, Jovana Knezevic; Local space and total war: enemies in Vienna in the two world wars, Maureen Healey; Ghettos and the remaking of urban space: a comparative study of Budapest and Warsaw, Tim Cole; Total warfare in a city: Stalingrad, Berlin - and Baghdad, Antony Beevor; Commemorative cosmopolis: transnational networks of remembrance in post-war Coventry, Stefan Goebel; Memories in ruins: Hiroshima's nuclear annihilation and beyond, Lisa Yoneyama; The spirit of war remains intact: the politics of space in Tokyo and the Yasukuni shrine, Julie Higashi; Conclusion: metropolitan history and national history in the age of total war, Jay Winter; Index.