Fire and Blood (eBook)

The European Civil War, 1914–1945

Enzo Traverso (Autor)

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2016 | Ebook UK & RoW
304 Seiten
Verso UK (Verlag)
978-1-78478-135-4 (ISBN)

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Fire and Blood looks at the European crisis of the two world wars as a single historical sequence: the age of the European Civil War (1914-1945). Its overture was played out in the trenches of the Great War; its coda on a ruined continent. It opened with conventional declarations of war and finished with "e;unconditional surrender."e; Proclamations of national unity led to eventual devastation, with entire countries torn to pieces. During these three decades of deepening conflicts, a classical interstate conflict morphed into a global civil war, abandoning rules of engagement and fought by irreducible enemies rather than legitimate adversaries, each seeking the annihilation of its opponents. It was a time of both unchained passions and industrial, rationalized massacre. Utilizing multiple sources, Enzo Traverso depicts the dialectic of this era of wars, revolutions and genocides. Rejecting commonplace notions of "e;totalitarian evil,"e; he rediscovers the feelings and reinterprets the ideas of an age of intellectual and political commitment when Europe shaped world history with its own collapse.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.1.2016
• Übersetzer: David Fernbach
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• ISBN-10: 1-78478-135-5 / 1784781355
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78478-135-4 / 9781784781354