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Air warfare dramatically reconfigured traditional relationships between the geo- graphical and psychological spaces of war during the twentieth century. Most crucially, this change expanded civilian noncombatants’ vulnerability to wartime violence.1 Urban-based families especially suffered as victims of the collateral dam- age accompanying the bombing of legally “sanctioned” strategic military targets near industrial centers. With an evolution in states’ understanding of collective psychology, bombing campaigns have also intentionally targeted civilian centers as a strategy of psychological warfare. Many historians tracing the history of warfare in the twentieth century have inaccurately partitioned the study of war into two distinct spaces—home front and battlefront.2
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Karma Nabulsi, Traditions of War: Occupation, Resistance and the Law (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).
Mindy Jane Roseman, “The Great War and Modern Motherhood: La Maternité and the Bombing of Paris,” Women and War in the 20th Century: Enlisted With or Without Consent, Nicole Dombrowski, ed. (New York: Garland Publishing, 1999; New York: Routledge, 2004), 56.
John Williams, The Other Battleground: The Home Fronts in Britain, France and Germany, 1914–1918 (Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1972), 1
See Nicole Dombrowski, “Beyond the Battlefield: The French Civilian Exodus of May-June 1940,” (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, 1995), 514–31.
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Risset, N.D. (2009). The Search for Civilian Safe Spaces: Re-evacuating Nord and Pas de Calais in Response to British Bombing, September 1940-March 1941. In: Lorcin, P.M.E., Brewer, D. (eds) France and Its Spaces of War. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230100763_5
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