Table Of ContentCivilians
Under Siege
from Sarajevo
to Troy
EDITED BY
Alex Dowdall
and John Horne
Civilians Under Siege from Sarajevo to Troy
“From first-hand oral accounts of the sieges of Sarajevo and Leningrad, from
a great range of documentary evidence, and from literary works imagining the
sack of Troy, this volume studies warfare at its very darkest: the devastation of
cities and their civilian populations. The techniques of siege may have changed
beyond recognition over the millennia, but the objective of capturing or destroy-
ing entire communities or states has remained a constant feature of warfare, and
the human and material cost has always been extraordinarily high. The detailed
case studies assembled here offer fascinating and disturbing insights into the poli-
tics, economics, ethics and psychology of siege warfare, starting less than 30 and
ending more than 3000 years ago.”
—Hans van Wees, University College London, UK
Alex Dowdall · John Horne
Editors
Civilians Under Siege
from Sarajevo to Troy
Editors
Alex Dowdall John Horne
University of Manchester Trinity College Dublin
Manchester, UK Dublin, Ireland
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cknowledgements
This volume has arisen from an international workshop on the same
theme, organised by the Centre for War Studies, Trinity College
Dublin, and hosted by the Trinity College Long Room Hub Arts and
Humanities Research Institute. The editors would like to thank the
Centre for War Studies and the Long Room Hub Research Incentive
Scheme for their generous funding, which allowed this project to be fol-
lowed through to completion.
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ontents
1 Introduction 1
Alex Dowdall and John Horne
2 Transmission and Transformation: Memories of the Siege
of Sarajevo 15
Ivana Maček
3 ‘This Did not Happen’: Survivors of the Siege of
Leningrad (1941–1944) and the ‘Truth About the
Blockade’ 37
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 61
Alex Dowdall
5 Siege Warfare in Comparative Early Modern Contexts:
Norms, Nuances, Myth and Massacre During the
Revolutionary Wars 83
Fergus Robson
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viii CoNTENTS
6 Between Positional Warfare and Small War: Soldiers
and Civilians During the ‘Desolation of the Palatinate’
(1688–89) 107
Emilie Dosquet
7 Before the Storm: Civilians Under Siege During
the Thirty Years War (1618–1630) 137
Jane Finucane
8 A Race Against Time—A Fight to the Death:
Combatants and Civilians in the Siege and Capture
of Jerusalem, 1099 163
Alan V. Murray
9 As They Were Ripped from the Altars: Civilians,
Sacrilege and Classical Greek Siege Warfare 185
Joshua R. Hall
10 Civilians Under Siege in the Ancient Greek World 207
Philip de Souza
Index 233
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ditors And ontributors
About the Editors
Alex Dowdall is Lecturer in the Cultural History of Modern War
and Simon Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, UK. His
research is concerned with the impact of military violence on civilians in
modern Europe, with a special focus on France during the First World
War. He is currently preparing his first monograph, entitled Communities
under Fire: Urban Life at the Western Front, 1914–1918.
John Horne is Emeritus Fellow of Trinity College Dublin where he
was Professor of Modern European History and a founder of the Centre
for War Studies. In 2016–2017 he was Leverhulme Visiting Professor
of History at oxford University, UK. A Member of the Royal Irish
Academy, he is also on the Executive Board of the Historial de la Grande
Guerre, Péronne. He has written extensively on modern France and the
transnational history of the Great War. Among his books are: (with Alan
Kramer), German Atrocities, 1914: A History of Denial (2001), trans-
lated into German (2003) and French (2005); (ed.) A Companion to
World War One (2010); (ed. and with Robert Gerwarth), War in Peace:
Paramilitary Violence in Europe after the Great War (2012). He is cur-
rently working on a history of the French experiences of the Great War.
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Contributors
Philip de Souza is Associate Professor of Classics at University College
Dublin, where he is a member of the Humanities Institute and the
Centre for War Studies. His books include: Piracy in the Graeco-Roman
World (1999); The Peloponnesian War (2002); The Ancient World at
War: A Global History (2008); War and Peace in Ancient and Medieval
History (co-edited with John France 2008); and The Sea in History: The
Ancient World (co-edited with Pascal Arnaud 2017).
Emilie Dosquet is a D.Phil. student in Early Modern History at the
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France. She is currently finish-
ing her research on the ‘Desolation of the Palatinate (1688–1689)’ at
the Maison Française d’oxford (where she won a research prize) and the
Faculty of History of the University of oxford (where she is an academic
visitor).
Jane Finucane is Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of
South Wales, UK. As a historian of the long seventeenth century, she has
a particular interest in the formation and impact of intellectual and infor-
mation networks across Britain and Europe in times of war and social
disruption.
Joshua R. Hall recently completed a Ph.D. in Ancient History
at Cardiff University, UK. His research focuses on warfare in the
Mediterranean world through the fourth century BCE.
Ivana Maček is Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer at the
Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University, Sweden. Her
major publications are Sarajevo under Siege: Anthropology in Wartime
(2009) and an edited volume Engaging Violence: Trauma, Memory and
Representation (2014). Her writing also addresses Swedes’ engagements
in global war-zones, intergenerational transmission of experiences of war
among Bosnians in Sweden, and anthropological methods.
Alan V. Murray is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Studies at the University
of Leeds, UK. He has researched and published extensively on medieval
warfare, the crusades and the Latin East. His works include The Franks
in Outremer: Studies in the Latin Principalities of Syria and Palestine,
1099–1187 (2015) and the four-volume The Crusades: An Encyclopedia
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(2006). He is currently working on the history of tournaments, and on
the conversion and conquest of the medieval Baltic region.
Fergus Robson lectures on Napoleonic France and Europe, and nine-
teenth-century European history, at Trinity College Dublin and the
National University of Ireland Maynooth. He works on resistance to the
French Revolution and Napoleonic Empire in rural France, the emer-
gence of French identity and militarised cultural encounters during the
French Revolutionary Wars. He is Associate Director of the Centre for
War Studies at Trinity College Dublin.
Alexandra Wachter holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of
London, Queen Mary and is working as a researcher at Österreichische
Gesellschaft für Zeitgeschichte at the University of Vienna. Her inter-
ests include Soviet and post-Soviet history, with a particular focus on
memory cultures, as well as on space and architecture. Her Ph.D. thesis
explores coping strategies of survivors of the Siege of Leningrad in Soviet
and post-Soviet society. She was also co-curator of the exhibition ‘Soviet
Modernism 1955–1991. Unknown history’ (Vienna, 2012–13) and co-
editor of the book with the same title. She is currently working on the
interdisciplinary research project ‘L’viv. Museum of War’ where she is
researching memory cultures and museum exhibits related to the Second
World War in L’viv.
