Bibliograph

Moral combat, good and evil in World War II, Michael Burleigh

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Moral combat, good and evil in World War II, Michael Burleigh

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [567]-622) and index

Illustrations

portraitsillustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Moral combat

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

641532375

Responsibility statement

Michael Burleigh

Sub title

good and evil in World War II

Summary

British historian Burleigh describes the atrocities of WWII and the reasoning behind them. Burleigh explains that Communist, Nazi, Fascist, and Japanese systems claimed to be regimes of public virtue carrying out inexorable historical processes. Proclaiming that the only evil was obstructing this march to utopia, they discarded the rule of law and alternative moral authority (religion, ethics)

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