Dynamic of Destruction: Culture And Mass Killing In The First World War (Making Of The Modern World)

Kramer, Alan

ISBN 10: 0199543771 / ISBN 13: 9780199543779

Published by Oxford University Press, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dynamic of Destruction: Culture And Mass Killing In The First World War (Making Of The Modern World)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199543771
• ISBN 13: 9780199543779
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Military History

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Synopsis

As award-winning historian Alan Kramer shows in this gripping and insightful volume, there was a vast wave of cultural destruction and mass killing that swept across the map of Europe at the time of the First World War. Using a wide range of examples and striking eye-witness accounts from England, France, Germany, and elsewhere, Kramer brings home the reality of the Great War, painting 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.

About the Author

Alan Kramer is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Modern History and fellow of Trinity College Dublin. He is the co-author of German Atrocities, 1914: A History of Denial.