Dynamic of Destruction - Culture and Mass Killing in the First World War

Zusatztext No serious student of the history of the twentieth century can afford to ignore this book. Informationen zum Autor Alan Kramer is Professor of history at Trinity College, Dublin. He has published widely on German and Italian history in the twentieth century, including (with John Horne) German Atrocities, 1914: A History of Denial, which won the Fraenkel Prize for Contemporary History and the 2002 Western Front Association's Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Book Award for the best work in English on the Great War. Klappentext Subtitled, "Culture & Mass Killing In The First World War". Using eyewitness accounts and a wide-range of case studies to show how, for the first time, warfare was directed at civilians. B/w photos and maps. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Kramer, Alan Kramer, Alan (Professor in History Kramer
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.01.2009
• EAN: 9780199543779
• ISBN: 978-0-19-954377-9
• No. of pages: 450
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 217 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Making of the Modern World; The Making of the Modern World
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; First World War, HISTORY / World, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Military Science, HISTORY / Military / Strategy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, General & world history, Violence in society, General and world history, War and defence operations, Violence and abuse in society, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), Theory of warfare and military science, Theory of warfare & military science, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I