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Among the Dead Cities

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01 hr 50 min 36 sec

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01.: Introduction

06 min 46 sec

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02.: Grayling OpeningRemarks

03 min 01 sec

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03.: History of AreaBombing

02 min 52 sec

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04.: U.S. BombingCampaign

01 min 31 sec

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05.: WWII Anxiety

03 min 55 sec

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06.: Moral Sensibility

01 min 27 sec

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07.: Attacking EnemyMorale

02 min 18 sec

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08.: The Limits of War

04 min 25 sec

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09.: Area Bombing ofJapan

03 min 30 sec

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10.: Looking Back 1945-49

04 min 42 sec

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11.: Hitchens OpeningRemarks

01 min 58 sec

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12.: British Argument

04 min 43 sec

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13.: ARF: Midnightof the Century

04 min 22 sec

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14.: A German Perspective

06 min 27 sec

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15.: Psychological Effect

00 min 55 sec

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16.: Thomas Mann Excerpt

04 min 14 sec

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17.: Criticisms

03 min 07 sec

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18.: Grayling Remarks

06 min 23 sec

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19.: Hitchens Remarks

04 min 13 sec

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20.: Dialogue

11 min 12 sec

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21.: Q & A

00 min 21 sec

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22.: Q1 - TerrorEffectiveness

02 min 46 sec

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23.: Q2 - BombingReducing Casualties

08 min 36 sec

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24.: Q3 - Production /Damage

06 min 14 sec

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25.: Q4 - Soldiers'Perspective of A-Bomb

04 min 31 sec

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26.: Q5 - Reversed Tactics

02 min 34 sec

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27.: Q6 - Morals vs. Logic

03 min 34 sec

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lmhinman

Posted: 05.30.11, 12:06 PM

Transcript is available at http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/192374-1 for free.

lmhinman

Posted: 05.30.11, 12:04 PM

Downloads are important. I download lectures and watch them at the gym while I work out. This is the kind of resource--five years old, scholarly--that should be available for download by now.

jamesjansz

Posted: 01.01.11, 01:31 PM

It's amazing how many times I can listen to this and each time discover ever more evidence of the canting hypocrisy of Hitchens. His animus against Churchill is especially evident - indeed it sticks out like a sore and ugly thumb: made even uglier by the fact that of the two speakers, Hitchens probably owes more to the example and heroism of Churchill. Grayling's points are based - no doubt - upon admirable moral scruples: we applaud him for it. But he can actually [I]know nothing[I] about how it actually felt to be caught up in the midst of a war for survival, and to be a people with their backs against the wall, expecting annihilation to come any day. How facile, then, Grayling's preoccupation seems to be, and how idiotic and puerile are the points Hitchens' makes in criticism of Churchill's aims, and how misplaced is the sarcasm and pseudo-erudition Hitchens self-consciously lavishes on his animadversions. Hitchens is a great and valuable crusader against the threat of Islam in the West, but when he talks rot he does so spectacularly and tirelessly: and this is one such example.

jamesjansz

Posted: 09.25.10, 08:51 PM

Graylings' points are no doubt effectively made and pertinent, and would have been conclusively pertinent if they had been made about attacks being made on a nation and a people who had come to the end - or were nearing the end of their campaign to obliterate a whole race and to expunge the sovereignty of so many ancient states of Europe, and to plunge it into the barbarism of Nazism. But such was not the case. Nazi germany was fully engaged in, and if anything, accelerating, its programme of genocide. As Hitchens ably puts it, nothing short of an annihilation of Germany - on the widest possible basis - would have stopped the beast in its tracks. And this the Royal Airforce and United States Airforce did; and thank God they did it. Of course so many good Germans died. That is obvious to anyone capable of thinking. But Hitchens' remark on the matter is ill-framed and trite, and worse, misleading - because it leaves unmentioned the obverse point - which is that so did so many good Jews and Englishmen and Frenchmen and Czechs and Poles get slaughtered - by the German military machine..........in fact many more in number than the good Germans who died. This will entirely negate the spurious point made by Hitchens. For all his brilliance, I think Grayling has wasted the time he spent in writing his book by barking up the wrong tree.

cornelius durden

Posted: 07.04.10, 12:05 PM

please make the downloads aviable.thank you.

gocanuckzgo

Posted: 08.23.09, 10:41 PM

Excellent talk. Both sides argued so well, I find it hard to disagree with either of them.

cawb

Posted: 09.18.06, 03:56 PM

Grayling's description of the American use of incendiary bombs on the civilian population of Japan is especially poignant.

cawb

Posted: 09.18.06, 03:55 PM

I found Grayling's talk very important because it highlights a little-discussed aspect of World War II: the deliberate targeting of civilian populations in Germany and Japan as part of the Allied bombing campaign.