About this Book

Who fights? : combatants, mobilization, and the changing nature of war -- The "Total War" era, 1914-1945 -- Doing the necessary : the declaration of London and British strategy, 1905-1915 / John Ferris -- Fighting the Fifth Column : the terror in Republican Madrid during the Spanish Civil War / Julius Ruiz -- Moscow 1941 : the rise and fall of the Soviet People's Militia (Narodnoe Opolchenie) / Jean Levesque -- The Cold War and decolonization, 1945-2000 -- The collapsing civil-military divide in wars of decolonization : two case studies from the Indochina War (1945-1954) / Christopher Goscha -- Parallel ambiguities : prisoners during the Algerian War of Independence / Raphaelle Branche -- East Pakistan/Bangladesh 1971-72: how many victims, who, and why? / Christian Gerlach -- "I wasn't a boy, I was a soldier" : militarization and civilianization in narratives of child soldiers in Africa's contemporary conflicts, c. 1990-2010 / Stacey Hynd -- A moving target: strategic bombing and civilians, 1916- 2014 -- The problems of opening Pandora's box : strategic bombing and the civil-military divide, 1916-39 / Andrew Barros -- Bombing civilians scientifically : operational research in bomber command, 1941-1945 / Victor Bissonnette -- Creating a cordon sanitaire: U.S. strategic bombing and civilians in the Korean War / Alexander Downes -- "One hell of a killing machine." how a civilian agency became the vanguard of America's war on terror / Chris Fuller -- Civilian protection and international norms and organizations: when and how much? -- Turn everyone into a civilian : Rene Cassin and the Unesco Project, 1919-1945 / Andrew Barros -- Human rights is the continuation of war by other means: the United States and the creation of the United Nations Human Rights Commission, 1945-48 / Olivier Barsalou -- The United Nations, decolonization, and violence against civilians in the French and British Empires / Martin Thomas -- The "protection of civilians": peacekeeping's new raison d'etre? / Frederic Megret