Bombing campaign in the 20th century - Basic information on the massacres from the air

The Swedish writer Sven Lindqvist has dealt in his documentary works mainly with issues such as imperialism, colonialism, racism and war. History of Bombing, published in Swedish in 1999, is one of his best known works. It was founded in 2001 and 2012 translated into English into French, but not yet into German, although some backgrounds would come here on interest, as perhaps shown in the following excerpts:

The reading PATHS - Ways into the Book
Lindqvist makes practically reading proposals on which reading paths could move through his 399 chronologically ordered, numbered, maximum half-page book sections.

FROM TO Chechaouen GUERNICA
In the read path to the beginnings of towns bombing "(# 9, 119, 389, 120 etc.), the author recalls the forgotten bombing of Durango not far from Guernica, that has suffered some hundred dead, but just not as Guernica the holy city of the Basques was. Above all, one learns that the twelve-years earlier bombed Moroccan Chefchaouen the greatest similarities to Guernica had. Both were holy cities for their country, were with about 6000 inhabitants of similar size and both were bombed by legionnaires' associations, Chefchaouen of American under French and Guernica by German under Spanish command.

TOKYO
The read thread to Tokyo (# 19, 197.198, 219-222, 165, 223-228, 231) begins in 1941 with the accidental discovery of the precursor of sticky napalm in a laboratory of DuPont, which brings the same with the idea the Harvard chemist Fieser to propose the material for non-erasable firebombs. The reading via the fire attack on Tokyo with over 80,000 dead in one day to troubling section # 231, in the lack of interest of the US to surrender negotiations is mentioned, one month before Hiroshima. But previously topped the devastation in Japan at an incredible pace in Germany:
# 228

HAMBURG, AUSCHWITZ, Dresden
This read path (# 11, 391, 200 etc.) begins with the lack of information of the UK population over the civilian targets of the RAF:

# 11 We were bombing the military transports on the railways, my host family said. If some houses by the side of the railway were damaged it unfortunate but unavoidable thing. It was was, you know.
This is not a question of a few houses, I said. Hamburg which razed by British bombs. This was the third time lve traveled through the city, and I have seen nothing but ruins. "
That must have been the Americans, Said my host. The British bombers never attacked Civilians.
"I am sorry to contradict you, but it what the other way around. The Americans bombed the industries by day, and the British the residential areas by night. That was the general pattern, the afraid.
I am not going to listen to any more German propaganda was in my house, my host said, cutting me short. The British bombers attacked military targets, period.>

What havoc targeted or taken inkauf bombing of civilian targets, is not shown in the Ruhmenshallen the Air Force all countries. About the British "Bomber Command" dedicated Lindqvist writes:

# 391

So Lindqvist writes with some Sarkasmas about what is military and politicians like to conceal and not to read in the press:

# 200

Lindqvist called the start of the bombing of German cities:

THE SPLENDID DECISION (# 10, 178-180, 174-175, 177, 181-182, etc.)
# 10

I had missed a first section to the bombing of Coventry by the German air force in November 1940. It is however to be found at # 182, where Lindqvist first responds to the fire bombing of Munich, because of which was preceded on Coventry. The aircraft factories in central Coventry had been taken successfully, but as to such individual successes more the German bomber force with its relatively small sample of the Heinkel 111 was not in any case have been able.

CONCLUSION
The book is an excellent introduction to the history of the air war in the 20th century. Important are Lindqvist the colonial beginnings, which marked by racism, the search for a moral legitimation saved. This was ultimately the entrance gate for the massacre from the air. Detail to Lindqvist has dealt with the attacks on civilian targets and their implications in the Second World War. Korean and Vietnam War are included on the first Gulf War will be discussed briefly, only the NATO bombing of Belgrade in 1999 were no longer included.

Before cheap, easy grayish paper of this issue to me I must warn insofar as it the font size is too small. It amounts to only about 5 pt that the footnotes only about 2.5 pt (0.9 mm). But I prefer a point from poor legibility. Better output would be highly desirable.