No man's land of violence : extreme wars in the 20th century
The war of atrocities : murderous scares and extreme combat / Alan Kramer -- Endkampf 1918 and 1945 : German nationalism, annihilation, and self-destruction / Michael Geyer -- The war to end all wars : the shock of violence in 1945 and its aftermath in Germany / Richard Bessel -- The killing frenzy...
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Göttingen : Wallstein-Verl.,
2006
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Göttinger Gespräche zur Geschichtswissenschaft
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| Schlagworte: | War Violence Atrocities Krieg Kriegsforschung Gewalt Staatliche Gewalt Genozid Völkermord Kriegsverbrechen mehr... |
| Umfang: | 282 S. |
| Zusammenfassung: | The war of atrocities : murderous scares and extreme combat / Alan Kramer -- Endkampf 1918 and 1945 : German nationalism, annihilation, and self-destruction / Michael Geyer -- The war to end all wars : the shock of violence in 1945 and its aftermath in Germany / Richard Bessel -- The killing frenzy : wartime narratives of enemy action / Joanna Bourke -- War as work : aspects of soldiering in twentieth-century wars / Alf L(c)ơdtke -- Woman's place in the no man's land of violence : the Indian subcontinent, 1947-48 / Gyanendra Pandey -- Armed struggle and sectarian violence : South Africa and Northern Ireland compared / Janet Cherry -- Performing violence : soldiers, paramilitaries, and civilians in the twentieth-century Balkan wars / Wolfgang H(c)œpken -- Religious languages of violence : some reflections on the reading of extremes / Bernd Weisbrod |
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| Beschreibung: | On June 13 and 14, 2003, the twentieth "Göttinger Gespräche zur Geschichtswissenschaft", sponsored by the Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte, Göttingen, addressed the theme of "The No Man's Land of Violence: Extreme Wars in the 20th Century". This volume presents the contributions and the introduction in slightly revised versions |
| Beschreibung: | 282 S. 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 9783892448259 3892448256 |