Dynamic of Destruction: Culture and Mass Killing in the First World WarOUP Oxford, 2008 M11 7 - 448 páginas 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 - 'Holocaust at Louvain' proclaimed the Daily Mail - and the behaviour 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. Yet the destruction at Louvain was simply one symbolic moment in a wider wave of cultural destruction and mass killing that swept Europe in the era of the First World War. Using a wide range of examples and eye-witness accounts from across Europe at this time, award-winning historian Alan Kramer paints 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. |
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... peace) is whether collective mentalities aVected the policies of individual decisionmakers. Moreover, how the war was unleashed in summer 1914 had a great deal to do with how it was waged, with its several breaches of international law ...
... peace) is whether collective mentalities aVected the policies of individual decisionmakers. Moreover, how the war was unleashed in summer 1914 had a great deal to do with how it was waged, with its several breaches of international law ...
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... peaceful population frightened by the news of German cruelties perpetrated along their invasion route since 4 August.2 In the area around Lie`ge, closest to the German border, some 640 civilians had been killed by 12 August, but no ...
... peaceful population frightened by the news of German cruelties perpetrated along their invasion route since 4 August.2 In the area around Lie`ge, closest to the German border, some 640 civilians had been killed by 12 August, but no ...
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... peace or the people compelled to subjection.'''2 This would have been the fate of France, Italy, or Poland, if Germany and its allies had won the war: 'annihilation' of the armed forces, occupation, and subjection of the people. Yet ...
... peace or the people compelled to subjection.'''2 This would have been the fate of France, Italy, or Poland, if Germany and its allies had won the war: 'annihilation' of the armed forces, occupation, and subjection of the people. Yet ...
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... peace, or the population made to submit.4 Thus even the word 'destruction' has a restricted sense with Clausewitz. It did not mean destruction of an entire nation, its people, and its wealth. Thus it is evident that destruction of the ...
... peace, or the population made to submit.4 Thus even the word 'destruction' has a restricted sense with Clausewitz. It did not mean destruction of an entire nation, its people, and its wealth. Thus it is evident that destruction of the ...
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Contenido
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3 The Warriors | 69 |
4 German Singularity? | 114 |
5 Culture and War | 159 |
6 Trench Warfare and its Consequences | 211 |
7 War Bodies and Minds | 230 |
Conclusion | 328 |
Historiographical Note | 339 |
Hague Convention IV Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land 1907 | 347 |
Notes | 349 |
Bibliography | 394 |
Sources and Acknowledgements for Illustrations | 416 |
Index | 419 |
8 Victory Trauma and PostWar Disorder | 268 |
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