To date, however, there has been little recognition of the effects of siege warfare on civilians. From the near-contemporary Siege of Sarajevo to the real and mythical sieges of the ancient Mediterranean, this has been a recurring type of military engagement which, through bombardment, starvation, disease and massacre, places non-combatants at the heart of battle. Siege warfare is a form of combat that has always had devastating effects on civilian populations. This edited volume analyses siege warfare as a discrete type of military engagement, in the face of which civilians are particularly vulnerable.
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