Civilians Under Siege from Sarajevo to Troy

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Dowdall, Alex (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Horne, John (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Military history.; World history.; Civilization-History.; Europe-History-To 476.; Europe-History-1492-.; History of Military.; World History, Global and Transnational History.; Cultural History.; History of Ancient Europe.; History of Modern Europe.

This edited volume analyses siege warfare as a discrete type of military engagement, in the face of which civilians are particularly vulnerable. Siege warfare is a form of combat that has always had devastating effects on civilian populations. From the near-contemporary Siege of Sarajevo to the real...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Civilians under Siege from Sarajevo to Troy:  Introduction; Alex Dowdall and John Horne
• 2. Transmission and Transformation: Memories of the Siege of Sarajevo; Ivana Maček
• 3. 'This did not happen': Survivors of the Siege of Leningrad (1941-1944) and the 'Truth about the Blockade'; Alexandra Wachter
• 4. 'Like Troy, though about as much larger...as the Encyclopaedia Britannica is larger than the Iliad': Civilians and Siege Warfare during the First World War; Alex Dowdall
• 5. Siege Warfare in Comparative Early-Modern Contexts: Norms, Nuances, Myth and Massacre during the Revolutionary Wars; Fergus Robson
• 6. Between Positional Warfare and Small War: Soldiers and Civilians during the 'Desolation of the Palatinate' (1688-89); Emilie Dosquet
• 7. Before the Storm: Civilians under Siege during the Thirty Years' War (1618-1630); Jane Finucane
• 8. A Race against Time - A Fight to the Death: Combatants and Civilians in the Siege and Capture of Jerusalem, 1099; Alan V. Murray
• 9. As They Were Ripped from the Altars: Civilians, Sacrilege and Classical Greek Siege Warfare; Joshua R. Hall
• 10. Civilians under Siege in the Ancient Greek World; Philip de Souza
• Index.