001480409 000__ 05515nam\a22009375i\4500 001480409 001__ 1480409 001480409 003__ DE-B1597 001480409 005__ 20231026035140.0 001480409 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001480409 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001480409 008__ 210830t20142014mau\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001480409 010__ $$a2015451885 001480409 019__ $$a(OCoLC)886770891 001480409 020__ $$a9780674416284 001480409 0247_ $$a10.4159/harvard.9780674416284$$2doi 001480409 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)427268 001480409 035__ $$a(OCoLC)878522769 001480409 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001480409 0410_ $$aeng 001480409 044__ $$amau$$cUS-MA 001480409 05000 $$aDC308$$b.C47 2014 001480409 050_4 $$aDC801.S77 001480409 072_7 $$aHIS013000$$2bisacsh 001480409 08204 $$a944.3954 001480409 1001_ $$aChrastil, Rachel, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001480409 24514 $$aThe Siege of Strasbourg /$$cRachel Chrastil. 001480409 264_1 $$aCambridge, MA : $$bHarvard University Press, $$c[2014] 001480409 264_4 $$c©2014 001480409 300__ $$a1 online resource (302 p.) :$$b14 halftones, 3 maps 001480409 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001480409 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001480409 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001480409 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001480409 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tNote to the Reader -- $$tIntroduction -- $$tChapter one. The Grey Areas -- $$tChapter two. Insiders and Outsiders -- $$tChapter three. Every Twenty Seconds -- $$tChapter four. Victims in the Eye of the Beholder -- $$tChapter five. Carrying On -- $$tChapter six. A Fraternal Hand -- $$tChapter seven. Heroic Measures -- $$tChapter eight. Strassburg -- $$tConclusion -- $$tAbbreviations -- $$tNotes -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$tIndex 001480409 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001480409 520__ $$aWhen war broke out between France and Prussia in the summer of 1870, one of the first targets of the invading German armies was Strasbourg. From August 15 to September 27, Prussian forces bombarded this border city, killing hundreds of citizens, wounding thousands more, and destroying many historic buildings and landmarks. For six terror-filled weeks, "the city at the crossroads" became the epicenter of a new kind of warfare whose indiscriminate violence shocked contemporaries and led to debates over the wartime protection of civilians. The Siege of Strasbourg recovers the forgotten history of this crisis and the experiences of civilians who survived it. Rachel Chrastil shows that many of the defining features of "total war," usually thought to be a twentieth-century phenomenon, characterized the siege. Deploying a modern tactic that traumatized city-dwellers, the Germans purposefully shelled nonmilitary targets. But an unintended consequence was that outsiders were prompted to act. Intervention by the Swiss on behalf of Strasbourg's beleaguered citizens was a transformative moment: the first example of wartime international humanitarian aid intended for civilians. Weaving firsthand accounts of suffering and resilience through her narrative, Chrastil examines the myriad ethical questions surrounding what is "legal" in war and what rights civilians trapped in a war zone possess. 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