How History Was Used in the Wars of the Twentieth Century - Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace

How History Was Used in the Wars of the Twentieth Century: Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace examines the decisions that historical thinking shaped about war and peace in Germany and the United States during the twentieth century and how contemporary scholars can better understand the influences of today's historical insight.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: The War that Will End War
Chapter 2: Versailles: Riot in a Parrot House
Chapter 3: Die Kriegschuldfrage: German Historians in the 1920s
Chapter 4: American Revisionism: Three Accounts of War Guilt
Chapter 5: German Historians under Hitler
Chapter 6: Berlin Diary
Chapter 7: The Shape of Things to Come: Appeasement and Isolationism
Chapter 8: German Catastrophe: the Second World War
Chapter 9: Cold War: The Bewitchment of Analogy
Chapter 10: The 1960s: Revisionism and post-Revisionism
Chapter 11: Kissinger's Revision of American Foreign Policy
Chapter 12: The Holocaust: The Past That Did Not Pass Away
Chapter 13: The End of History
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
About the author

About the author

By Robert J. Norrell

Summary

How History Was Used in the Wars of the Twentieth Century: Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace examines the decisions that historical thinking shaped about war and peace in Germany and the United States during the twentieth century and how contemporary scholars can better understand the influences of today’s historical insight.

Product details

• Authors: Robert J. Norrell, Norrell Robert J.
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.10.2023
• EAN: 9781666941968
• ISBN: 978-1-66694-196-8
• No. of pages: 236
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Germany, 20th Century, HISTORY / World, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, The Holocaust, United States of America, USA, General and world history, History of the Americas, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust