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Title:

DYNAMIC OF DESTRUCTION
CULTURE AND MASS KILLING IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR

By:

Alan Kramer

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0199543771

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9780199543779

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Publisher:

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

6 November, 2008

Series:

Making of the Modern World

Pages:

450

Description:

Award-winning historian Alan Kramer offers a vivid new account of the wave of cultural destruction and mass killing that swept across Europe in the second and third decades of the twentieth century.

Synopsis:

On 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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33 black and white haltones and 5 maps

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Oxford University Press

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