Civilians Under Siege from Sarajevo to Troy

Alex Dowdall is Lecturer in the Cultural History of Modern War and Simon Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, UK. John Horne is Emeritus Fellow of Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, where he was Professor of Modern European History and a founder of the Centre for War Studies. In 2016-17 he was Leverhulme Visiting Professor of History at Oxford University, UK

• 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.