An analysis of Saul Friedlander's thinking, as one of the most important Holocaust scholars. It provides a discussion of Friedlander's landmark history of the Holocaust, Nazi Germany and the Jews: The Years of Extermination 1939-1945 . It addresses the manifold conceptual and historiographical issues raised in Friedlander's monumental work.

An analysis of Saul Friedlander's thinking, as one of the most important Holocaust scholars. It provides a discussion of Friedlander's landmark history of the Holocaust, Nazi Germany and the Jews: The Years of Extermination 1939-1945 . It addresses the manifold conceptual and historiographical issues raised in Friedlander's monumental work.

Award-winning historian Alan Kramer offers a vivid new account of the wave of cultural destruction and mass killing that swept across Europe in the second and third decades of the twentieth century.

Were thousands of unarmed Belgian civilians slaughtered by invading German troops in August, 1914, or are accounts of these deaths mere fabrications constructed by fanatically anti-German Allied propagandists? This pathbreaking book, based on meticulous research, uncovers the truth of the disputed atrocities and explains how the politics of propaganda and memory have shaped radically different ...

On 26 August 1914 the world-famous university library in the Belgian town of Louvain was looted and destroyed by German troops. The international community reacted in horror - 'Holocaust at Louvain' proclaimed the Daily Mail - and the behaviour of the Germans at Louvain came to be seen as the beginning of a different style of war, without the rules that had governed military conflict up to that ..