Michael Bess

Choices Under Fire (eBook, ePUB)

Moral Dimensions of World War II

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

World War II was the quintessential "good war.” It was not, however, a conflict free of moral ambiguity, painful dilemmas, and unavoidable compromises. Was the bombing of civilian populations in Germany and Japan justified? Were the Nuremberg and Tokyo war crimes trials legally scrupulous? What is the legacy bequeathed to the world by Hiroshima? With wisdom and clarity, Michael Bess brings a fresh eye to these difficult questions and others, arguing eloquently against the binaries of honor and dishonor, pride and shame, and points instead toward a nuanced reckoning with one of the most pivotal conflicts in human history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780307494450
• Artikelnr.: 39205260

Autorenporträt

Michael Bess is professor of history at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of The Light Green Society: Ecology and Technological Modernity in France, 1960-2000, and Realism, Utopia, and the Mushroom Cloud: Four Activist Intellectuals and Their Strategies for Peace, 1945-1989.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Evaluating the Second World War: Celebration, Doubt, and
Complexity
PART ONE: Fomenting War
1. A Wide World of Racisms
2. Causes of the Pacific War: A Longer View on Pearl Harbor
3. Causes of the War in Europe: The Paradoxical Legacy of Munich
PART TWO: Making War
4. Bystanders: How Much Is Not Enough?
5. Bombing Civilian Populations: A Case of Moral Slippage
6. Deep Evil and Deep Good: The Concept of Human Nature Confronts the
Holocaust
7. Decisions at Midway, 1942: Moral Character As a Factor in Battle
8. Tyranny Triumphant: The Moral Awkwardness of the Alliance with Stalin
9. Kamikaze: Wartime Suicide Attackss in Anthropological Perspective
10. The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb: Twelve Questions
PART THREE: Long Term Consequences of the War
11. Justice for the Unspeakable?: The Enduring Legacy of the War Crimes
Trials at Nuremberg and Tokyo
12. Generations Under a Shadow: The Challenges of Peace Since Hiroshima
13. The Politics of Memory: Remembering and Unremembering Wartime
Conclusion: What Would Be the Opposite of Hitler’s World?
Notes
Bibliography
Index