Moral combat : a history of World War II / by Michael Burleigh
- Bib ID:
- 5018251
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Burleigh, Michael, 1955-
- Description:
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- London : HarperPress, 2010
- xxi, 650 p., [16] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780007195763 (hardback)
- 0007195761 (hardback)
- Summary:
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By exploring the moral sentiment of entire societies and their leaders, and how this changed under the impact of total war, the author presents readers with an entirely fresh perspective of the Second World War. Opening with the 'predators' - Mussolini, Hitler, Prince Hirohito of Japan - and moving onto appeasement, the rape of Poland, Barbarossa, the role of Churchill, and the Holocaust, Burleigh analyses the moral dimension of WWII's most important moments. More than merely a history of 'great men', however, he also examines the moral reasoning of individuals who had to make choices under circumstances difficult to imagine.
- Full contents:
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- The predators
- Appeasement
- Brotherly enemies
- The rape of Poland
- Trampling the remains
- Not losing: Churchill's Britain
- Under the swastika: Nazi occupied Europe
- Barbarossa
- Global war
- The resistance
- Moral calculus
- Beneath the mask of command
- Antagonistic allies
- 'We were savages': combat soldiers
- Massacring the innocents
- Journeys through the night
- Observing an avalanche
- Tenuous altruism
- 'The king;s thunderbolts are righteous': RAF Bomber Command
- Is that Britain", no it's Brittany
- The predators at bay.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [603]-622) and index.
- Subject:
- World War, 1939-1945
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 2010
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