Bomber Command were waging a lawful war…

I’ve always had trouble with that one; a ‘lawful war’. Exactly what laws does a country need to obey when it starts a war; I’m sure every nation (or leader) thinks it is perfectly justified when it launches an unprovoked war on another nation. Britain itself has some recent experience in that field.

Humans, being what we are, can be made to believe that almost any behaviour is justified or legal; on the one hand that will lead to the ‘Rape of Nanking’ on the other the ‘Firebombing of Tokyo’.