Bombing the City: Civilian Accounts of Aerial Bombing in Britain and Japan during the Second World War

This book provides a comparative history of how British and Japanese civilians experienced bombing. Aaron William Moore offers a major new contribution to these debates. Utilising hundreds of diaries, letters, and memoirs, he recovers the voices of ordinary people on both sides—from builders, doctors and factory-workers to housewives, students and policemen—and reveals the shared experiences shaped by gender, class, race, and age. He reveals how it was that the British and Japanese public continued to support bombing elsewhere, even as they experienced firsthand its terrible impact at home.