Bombing Pompeii: World Heritage and Military Necessity

Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on Usage
Abbreviations
Abbreviations for Frequently Cited Archival Documents
Introduction
Part One: The Bombing of Pompeii, August–September 1943
	Chapter 1: ‘La prima tragica notte di Pompei’: 24/25 August 1943
	Chapter 2: ‘Everything we could put into the air’: Pompeii and the Salerno Beachhead, 13–29 September 1943
	Chapter 3: Why Was Pompeii Bombed?
	Chapter 4: Bombing Conditions, Tactics and Accuracy
	Chapter 5: Judgements of Success, Military Necessity and Legality
	Chapter 6: ‘The Germans were encamped on the site and allied aircraft were obliged to treat it as a military objective’: Alternative Explanations for the Bombing of Pompeii
Part Two: ‘Our Common Task’
	Chapter 7: British Military Cultural Property Protection, from Cyrene to Syracuse
	Chapter 8: The Development of US Wartime Heritage Protection, 1942 to September 1943
	Chapter 9: Pompeii’s Legacy? Aerial Bombardment and Cultural Heritage in Italy, 1943–1945
	Chapter 10: ‘Any consequential damage is accepted’. Mediterranean Allied Air Forces Reforms, Successes and Failures in Cultural Property Protection, February 1944 to March 1945
Part Three: Military Convenience? The British Military Requisition and Occupation of the National Museum of Naples, 17 November 1943 to 29 June 1944
	Chapter 11: Allied Cultural Property Protection from Salerno to Naples
	Chapter 12: The Museo Nazionale di Napoli, Its Requisition and Consequences
	Chapter 13: Responses, Failures and Successes
	Conclusions
Appendices
	Appendix A: Bomb Damage to the Archaeological Site of Pompeii: Summaries from Contemporary Allied Documentation
	Appendix B: Air Forces Organisation and Documentation
	Appendix C: Applying 1944 US Eighth Air Force Accuracy Data to Pompeii
	Appendix D: RAF Medium Bombers’ Use of Flares
	Appendix E: BBC Recording of Matthew Henry Halton at Pompeii, 29 September 1943
	Appendix F: Cities Included in MAAF, Ancient Monuments of Italy (23 February 1944)
Notes
Bibliography
Index