- Summary
- British historian Burleigh describes the atrocities of WWII and the reasoning behind them. Burleigh explains that Communist, Nazi, Fascist, and Japanese systems claimed to be regimes of public virtue carrying out inexorable historical processes. Proclaiming that the only evil was obstructing this march to utopia, they discarded the rule of law and alternative moral authority (religion, ethics).
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Burleigh, Michael, 1955-
- Published
- New York : HarperCollins, [2011]
©2011
- Edition
- First U.S. edition
- Contents
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The predators
Appeasement
Brotherly enemies
The rape of Poland
Trampling the remains
Not losing: Churchill's Britain
Under the swastika: Nazi occupied Europe
Barbarossa
Global war
The resistance
Moral calculus
Beneath the mask of command
Antagonistic allies
'We were savages': combat soldiers
Massacring the innocents
Journeys through night
Observing an avalanche
Tenuous altruism
'The King's thunderbolts are righteous': RAF Bomber Command
Is that Britain?
No, it's Brittany
The predators at bay.
- Notes
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Maps by Hugh Bicheno.
Originally published in Great Britain in 2010.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 567-622) and index.
The predators -- Appeasement -- Brotherly enemies -- The rape of Poland -- Trampling the remains -- Not losing: Churchill's Britain -- Under the swastika: Nazi occupied Europe -- Barbarossa -- Global war -- The resistance -- Moral calculus -- Beneath the mask of command -- Antagonistic allies -- 'We were savages': combat soldiers -- Massacring the innocents -- Journeys through night -- Observing an avalanche -- Tenuous altruism -- 'The King's thunderbolts are righteous': RAF Bomber Command -- Is that Britain?--No, it's Brittany -- The predators at bay.
