No man's land of violence : extreme wars in the 20th century / With contributions by Richard Bessel ... Ed. by Alf Lüdtke and Bernd Weisbrod

The war of atrocities : murderous scares and extreme combat / Alan Kramer -- Endkampf 1918 and 1945 : German nationalism, annihilation, and self-destruction / Michael Geyer -- The war to end all wars : the shock of violence in 1945 and its aftermath in Germany / Richard Bessel -- The killing frenzy...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
Weitere Verfasser:Lüdtke, Alf (HerausgeberIn)
Weisbrod, Bernd (BerichterstatterIn)
Bessel, Richard (BerichterstatterIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht:Göttingen : Wallstein-Verl, 2006
Schriftenreihe:Göttinger Gespräche zur Geschichtswissenschaft 24
Schlagworte:
Internet:Inhaltstext
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Details
Zusammenfassung:The war of atrocities : murderous scares and extreme combat / Alan Kramer -- Endkampf 1918 and 1945 : German nationalism, annihilation, and self-destruction / Michael Geyer -- The war to end all wars : the shock of violence in 1945 and its aftermath in Germany / Richard Bessel -- The killing frenzy : wartime narratives of enemy action / Joanna Bourke -- War as work : aspects of soldiering in twentieth-century wars / Alf L(c)ơdtke -- Woman's place in the no man's land of violence : the Indian subcontinent, 1947-48 / Gyanendra Pandey -- Armed struggle and sectarian violence : South Africa and Northern Ireland compared / Janet Cherry -- Performing violence : soldiers, paramilitaries, and civilians in the twentieth-century Balkan wars / Wolfgang H(c)œpken -- Religious languages of violence : some reflections on the reading of extremes / Bernd Weisbrod
Beschreibung:On June 13 and 14, 2003, the twentieth "Göttinger Gespräche zur Geschichtswissenschaft", sponsored by the Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte, Göttingen, addressed the theme of "The No Man's Land of Violence: Extreme Wars in the 20th Century". This volume presents the contributions and the introduction in slightly revised versions
Beschreibung:282 S. 21 cm
ISBN:9783892448259
3892448256