1st Edition
Explaining Auschwitz and Hiroshima Historians and the Second World War, 1945-1990
By Richard J. B. Bosworth
Copyright 1993
278 Pages
by
Routledge
278 Pages
by
Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
Explaining Auschwitz and Hiroshima explores the way in which the main combatant societies of the Second World War have historicised that experience. Since 1945, debates in Germany about `the past that would not fade away' have been reasonably well-known. But in this book, Richard Bosworth maintains that Germany is not unique. He argues that in Britain, France, Italy, the USSR and Japan, as well... Read more
Introduction 1. The Second World War and the Historians 2. The Origins of World War III and the Making of English Social History 3. Germany and the Third, Second, and First World Wars 4. The Historikerstreit and the Relativisation of Auschwitz 5. The Sorrow and the Pity of the Fall of France, and the Rise of French Historiography 6. The Eclipse of Anti-Fascism in Italy 7. Glasnost reaches Soviet Historiography 8. Hiroshima, mon amour : Under Eastern Eyes
Biography
Richard J. B. Bosworth
`... thought-provoking and widely researched study of history-writing since 1945.' - Contemporary European History
`It is a very witty and erudite discussion of what historians in the combatant countries have made of the horrors of the Second War World.' - Scotland on Sunday
`This is an extremely valuable, thought-provoking book. It undertakes an ambitious task of relating the study of history in many countries to the cataclysmic developments of the Second World War - not just the battles fought, but including the rise of fascism, domestic divisions, and atrocities committed at home and abroad ... This is an enormously complex story, but the author presents it thoughtfully and imaginatively, always asking the crucial question, how history affects a historian, and how a historian shapes history.' - Akira Iriye, Harvard University
