Dynamic of destruction : culture and mass killing in the First World War
Alan Kramer (Author)
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
1 online resource (ix, 434 pages) : illustrations, maps
9780191516689, 9786611146788, 9781435605428, 9780191580116, 9781281146786, 0191516686, 6611146784, 143560542X, 0191580112, 1281146781
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The Burning of Louvain
The Radicalization of Warfare
The Warriors
German Singularity?
Culture and War
Trench Warfare and its Consequences
War, Bodies, and Minds
Victory, Trauma, and PostWar Disorder
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