Dynamic of Destruction : Culture and Mass Killing in the First World War: Culture and Mass Killing in the First World WarOn 26 August 1914 the world-famous university library in the Belgian town of Louvain was looted and destroyed by German troops. The international community reacted in horror - 'Holocaust at Louvain' proclaimed the Daily Mail - and the behaviour of the Germans at Louvain came to be seen as the beginning of a different style of war, without the rules that had governed military conflict up to that point - a more total war, in which enemy civilians and their entire culture were now 'legitimate' targets. Yet the destruction at Louvain was simply one symbolic moment in a wider wave of cultural destruction and mass killing that swept Europe in the era of the First World War. Using a wide range of examples and eye-witness accounts from across Europe at this time, award-winning historian Alan Kramer paints a picture of an entire continent plunging into a chilling new world of mass mobilization, total warfare, and the celebration of nationalist or ethnic violence - often directed expressly at the enemy's civilian population. |
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Avis d'utilisateur - rgurskey - LibraryThingA very academic look at certain features of the First World War. Consulter l'avis complet
Table des matières
The Burning of Louvain | 5 |
The Radicalization of Warfare | 30 |
The Warriors | 68 |
German Singularity? | 113 |
Culture and War | 158 |
Trench Warfare and its Consequences | 210 |
War Bodies and Minds | 229 |
Victory Trauma and PostWar Disorder | 267 |
Conclusion | 327 |
Historiographical Note | 338 |
Hague Convention IV Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land 1907 | 346 |
Notes | 348 |
Bibliography | 393 |
415 | |
Index | 418 |
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Dynamic of Destruction: Culture and Mass Killing in the First World War Alan Kramer Aucun aperçu disponible - 2008 |
Dynamic of Destruction: Culture and Mass Killing in the First World War Professor Alan Kramer Aucun aperçu disponible - 2007 |
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