Dynamic of destruction : culture and mass killing in the First World War / Alan Kramer.
Dynamic of destruction : culture and mass killing in the First World War / Alan Kramer.
Dynamic of destruction : culture and mass killing in the First World War / Alan Kramer.
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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Date
2007.
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N940.405/5
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English
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xi, 434 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. The burning of Louvain -- 2. The radicalization of warfare -- 3. The warriors -- 4. German singularity? -- 5. Culture and war -- 6. Trench warfare and its consequences -- 7. War, bodies, and minds -- 8. Victory, trauma, and post-war disorder -- App. Hague Convention (IV) respecting the laws and c...
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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.
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England
Date Published
2007.
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"Yet the destruction at Louvain was simply one symbolic moment in a wider wave of cultural destruction and mass killing that swept the world at this time - from the Balkans in 1912, via the western front, Turkey, Italy, and eastern Europe, to the seven-year catastrophe of war and revolution in Russia. Using a wide range of examples and eye-witness...
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Dynamic of destruction : culture and mass killing in the First World War / Alan Kramer.
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The making of the modern world.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N940.405/5
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74VKzvoMZJ83
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0192803425 (hbk.) :
9780192803429 (hbk.) :
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940.405
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991023399779702626
