No man's land of violence : extreme wars in the 20th century / with contributions by Richard Bessel ... [and others] ; edited by Alf Lüdtke and Bernd Weisbrod.

International conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references.

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 Lüdtke -- 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 Höpken -- Religious languages of violence : some reflections on the reading of extremes / Bernd Weisbrod.