Ronald Smelser, Edward J. Davies ll

The Myth of the Eastern Front

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Some Americans are receptive to a positive interpretation of German military conduct on the Russian front in World War II.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 583g
• ISBN-13: 9780521712316
• ISBN-10: 0521712319
• Artikelnr.: 22953415

Autorenporträt

Professor Ronald Smelser has been a Professor of History at the University of Utah since 1974. An expert on twentieth-century German history, Smelser is a former president of the German Studies Association (1989-91), a former member of the executive committee at the Czechoslovak History Conference (1992-5), a delegate from the GSA to the ACLS (1995-9), and current president of the Conference Group for Central European History. He has published extensively in German and English on the subject of twentieth-century German history and received numerous accolades for his scholarly work from the University of Utah, the Holocaust Education Foundation, and the German Studies Association, of which he is a founding member, among others.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Americans experience the war in Russia, 1941-5
2. The Cold War and the emergence of a lost cause mythology
3. The German generals talk, write, and network
4. Memoirs, novels, and popular histories
5. Winning hearts and minds: the Germans interpret the war for the United States public
6. The gurus
7. Wargames, the internet, and the popular culture of the Romancers
8. Romancing the war, re-enactors, and 'what-if' history.