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Explaining Auschwitz and Hiroshima: Historians and the Second World War, 1945-1990 (The New International History) |  | Author: Richard J. B. Bosworth
Publisher: Routledge
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1790034
Media: Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Pages: 288
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1
ISBN: 041510923X
Dewey Decimal Number: 907
EAN: 9780415109239
ASIN: 041510923X
Publication Date: May 31, 1994
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In this topical book, Bosworth explores the ways in which the main combatant societies of the Second World War have hitorized that experience. He argues that in Britain, France, Italy, the USSR and Japan, as well as Germany, the traumatic history of the `long Second World War' has remained crucial to the culture and politics of their post-war societies. Bosworth examines when, why and with what effect interpretations of the war have shifted, and he analyzes major controversies in history writing. Combining a wide-ranging and flexible use of sources from history, documentary and feature film with a unique overview of the historiograhical controversies of sic countries, Bosworth provides a stimulating and thought provoking excursion into comparative history.
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 Eye opening November 6, 2009
A. Jenshel (Australia)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I had the privilege of taking an undergraduate history course taught by Richard Bosworth in 1988. This book is based on a part of that course, but was only published some years later. It is a book about historiography, that is, about the writing of history. It is not about chronology. It is a country-specific survey of the way historians, journalists, novelists, film-makers, politicians and others have thought of and portrayed the Second World War and their country's role in it. It is beautifully written, provocative, amusing and totally absorbing - not at all what you might expect of a "textbook". You do not need a detailed knowledge of the history of the war or of any particular country to appreciate it. It has been on my bookshelf for many years now and I have come back to it again and again, sometimes for a chapter, sometimes to re-read it cover-to-cover.
 Not even close January 9, 2010
Daniel R. Williams (CHICAGO,IL)
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
Sorry one was a Nazi Death camp and the other was,Hiroshima,was a bomb target. They have no commonality with each other and any one who suggest otherwise is living in a fantasy world.
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