Overview: Offers the first in-depth investigation of the relationship between World War II, cities, and the environment.Covers a diverse array of socio-geographical environments across four continents.Argues foThe fate of towns and cities stands at the center of the environmental history of World War II. Broad swaths of cityscapes were destroyed by the bombing of targets such as transport hubs, electrical grids, and industrial districts, and across Europe, Asia, and the Americas, urban environments were transformed by the massive mobilization of human and natural resources to support the confl
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