Moral Combat: Good and Evil in World War II

Moral Combat: Good and Evil in World War II

by Michael Burleigh
Moral Combat: Good and Evil in World War II

Moral Combat: Good and Evil in World War II

by Michael Burleigh

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Overview

"Magnificent. . . . Seldom has a study of the past combined such erudition with such exuberance." —The Guardian 

"No-one with an interest in the Second World War should be without this book; and indeed nor should anyone who cares about how our world has come about." —The Daily Telegraph 

Pre-eminent WWII historian Michael Burleigh delivers a brilliant new examination of the day-to-day moral crises underpinning the momentous conflicts of the Second World War. A magisterial counterpart to his award-winning and internationally bestselling The Third Reich, winner of the Samuel Johnson prize, Moral Combat offers a unique and riveting look at, in the words of The Times (London), "not just the war planners faced with the prospect of bombing Dresden or the atrocities of the Holocaust, but also the individuals working at the coalface of war, killing or murdering, resisting or collaborating."


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780060580988
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 05/15/2012
Pages: 672
Product dimensions: 5.42(w) x 7.80(h) x 1.19(d)

About the Author

Michael Burleigh is the author of Earthly Powers, Sacred Causes, and The Third Reich: A New History, which won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction. He is married and lives in London.

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It seems like a throwback to a bygone epoch to talk about good and evil in history….Michael Burleigh succeeds in avoiding easy, snap judgments. Instead, he has written an insightful, often moving account of the war's players, great and small, and the principles that guided them. Burleigh succeeds in finding new insights into almost every major event of the war, on both sides, as often by sharp counter-questioning as by logistical and political analysis. Burleigh examines many of the most ethically complicated parts of the conflict to unravel the values and visions they embody. The result is extremely satisfying.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgement vii

Maps xiii

1 The Predators 1

2 Appeasement 35

3 Brotherly Enemies 76

4 The Rape of Poland 115

5 Trampling the Remains 134

6 Not Losing: Churchill's Britain 158

7 Under the Swastika: Nazi Occupied Europe 190

8 Barbarossa 221

9 Global War 253

10 The Resistance 268

11 Moral Calculus 287

12 Beneath the Mask of Command 311

13 Antagonistic Allies 334

14 'We were Savages': Combat Soldiers 360

15 Massacring the Innocents 394

16 Journeys through Night 419

17 Observing an Avalanche 443

18 Tenuous Altruism 463

19 'The King's Thunderbolts are Righteous': RAP Bomber Command 478

20 Is That Britain?-No, It's Brittany 506

21 The Predators at Bay 533

List of Illustrations 563

Notes 567

Select Bibliography 603

Index 623

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