Dec 31, 2009

J. B. | Historical Context

World War II
With the development of new technologies World War II saw more civilian casualties than any previous war. Bombs from the air could deliver more destructive power than single bullets from a rifle, but they did not kill only soldiers, nor were they intended to. Nickles comments in scene 1 that ‘‘Millions and millions of mankind’’ have been ‘‘Burned, crushed, broken, mutilated,’’ and he particularly mentions those who died because they were ‘‘Sleeping the wrong night wrong...