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Explaining Auschwitz and Hiroshima : history writing and the Second World War 1945-1990 / R.J.B. Bosworth.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bosworth, R. J. B.
- Series:
- New international history series.
- New international history series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Historiography.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- History, Modern--1945-1989--Historiography.
- History, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (279 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1993.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Explores the way in which the main combatant societies of the Second World War have historicised that experience. Bosworth argues that the traumatic history of the war has remained crucial to the politics of post-war societies.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Series editor's preface; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The Second World War and the historians; The origins of the Third World War and the making of English social history; Germany and the Third, Second and First World Wars; The Historikerstreit and the relativisation of Auschwitz; The sorrow and the pity of the fall of France and the rise of French historiography; The eclipse of anti-Fascism in Italy; Glasnost reaches Soviet historiography; Hiroshima, mon amour: under eastern eyes; Conclusion; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-250) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-83828-X
- 1-134-83829-8
- 0-203-21480-3
- 0-585-45204-0
- 1-280-32471-6
- 9780203214800
- OCLC:
- 475885764
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