Dynamic of Destruction Culture and Mass Killing in the First World War

by Kramer, Alan

• ISBN13: 9780199543779
• ISBN10: 0199543771
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-03-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

In the final week of August 1914, German occupying troops torched the medieval city of Louvain in Belgium, slaughtering hundreds of civilians and deliberately destroying its cultural heritage, including its world-famous university library.

Author Biography

Alan Kramer is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Modern History and fellow of Trinity College Dublin. He is the co-author of German Atrocities, 1914: A History of Denial.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. x
List of Maps	p. xii
Abbreviations	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
The Burning of Louvain	p. 6
The Radicalization of Warfare	p. 31
The Warriors	p. 69
German Singularity?	p. 114
Culture and War	p. 159
Trench Warfare and its Consequences	p. 211
War, Bodies, and Minds	p. 230
Victory, Trauma, and Post-War Disorder	p. 268
Conclusion	p. 328
Historiographical Note	p. 339
Hague Convention (IV) Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land (1907)	p. 347
Notes	p. 349
Bibliography	p. 394
Sources and Acknowledgements for Illustrations	p. 416
Index	p. 419
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