Explaining Auschwitz and Hiroshima : history writing and the Second World War 1945-1990 / R.J.B. Bosworth.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-250) and index.

Cover -- THE NEW INTERNATIONAL HISTORY SERIES -- EXPLAINING AUSCHWITZ AND HIROSHIMA -- Contents -- Series editor's preface -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The Second World War and the historians -- 2 The origins of the Third World War 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 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.

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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.

English.

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