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Dynamic of Destruction - Culture and Mass Killing in the First World War (Paperback)
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Dynamic of Destruction - Culture and Mass Killing in the First World War (Paperback)
Series: Making of the Modern World
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On 26 August 1914 the world-famous university library in the
Belgian town of Louvain was looted and destroyed by German troops.
The international community reacted in horror and the behavior of
the Germans at Louvain came to be seen as the beginning of a
different style of war, without the rules that had governed
military conflict up to that point--a more total war, in which
enemy civilians and their entire culture were now legitimate
targets.
As award-winning historian Alan Kramer shows in this gripping and
insightful volume, the destruction at Louvain was simply one
symbolic moment in 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. Kramer examines the psychological impact of trench
warfare, addresses the question of German atrocities (were the
Germans particularly barbaric, or was savage behavior common on all
sides?), and offers a disturbing summation of the war's impact on
European culture.
From the Western Front to the Balkans, from Italy to the war in
the East, the First World War was the most apocalyptic the world
had ever known. This book tells you how and why the civilized
nations of Europe descended into unprecedented orgy of destruction.
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