War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust (Critical Issues in World and International History) - Softcover

Bergen, Doris L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0742557154 ISBN 13: 9780742557154

Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009

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A book that will likely be required reading in college-level courses for years to come... A detailed overview of the Holocaust. History In Review A meticulous, sensitive account of the Nazi race wars that combines a powerful narrative and explanatory drive at the same time as it illuminates individual lives and fates with searing precision. While giving full weight to the antisemitic core of Nazi racism, Bergen also shows why it claimed so many other groups of victims, and pursues it to its appalling climax in the wars of imperialist conquest and exploitation launched in 1939. This is a distinctive and remarkable achievement, as assured as it is readable. -- Jane Caplan, University of Oxford This precise textbook accomplishes much: it provides a wide-angle view of what the Holocaust was and is in clear historiographical terms, challenges students to think through facts and interpretations surrounding the historical study of the Holocaust, and complements-and is short enough to allow the inclusion of-primary sources in a course. I will use it as long as I can. -- Jeanne Grant, Metropolitan State University

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In examining one of the defining events of the twentieth century, Doris L. Bergen situates the Holocaust in its historical, political, social, cultural, and military contexts. Unlike many other treatments of the Holocaust, the revised, second edition of War and Genocide discusses not only the persecution of the Jews, but also other segments of society victimized by the Nazis: gypsies, homosexuals, Poles, Soviet POWs, the handicapped, and other groups deemed undesirable. In clear and eloquent prose, Bergen explores the two interconnected goals that drove the Nazi German program of conquest and genocide-purification of the so-called Aryan race and expansion of its living space-and discusses how these goals affected the course of World War II. Including first hand accounts from perpetrators, victims, and eyewitnesses, the book is immediate, human, and eminently readable.

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• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0742557154
• ISBN 13: 9780742557154
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 296