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David Fernbach, Enzo Traverso (Beteiligte)

Fire and Blood


The European Civil War, 1914-1945
Übersetzung: Fernbach, David
2017. 304 S. 7.8 in
Verlag/Jahr: VERSO 2017
ISBN: 1-78478-136-3 (1784781363)
Neue ISBN: 978-1-78478-136-1 (9781784781361)

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Europe´s second Thirty Years´ War-an epoch of blood and ashes

Fire and Blood looks at the European crisis of the two world wars as a single historical sequence: the age of the European Civil War (1914-1945). Its overture was played out in the trenches of the Great War; its coda on a ruined continent. It opened with conventional declarations of war and finished with "unconditional surrender." Proclamations of national unity led to eventual devastation, with entire countries torn to pieces. During these three decades of deepening conflicts, a classical interstate conflict morphed into a global civil war, abandoning rules of engagement and fought by irreducible enemies rather than legitimate adversaries, each seeking the annihilation of its opponents. It was a time of both unchained passions and industrial, rationalized massacre. Utilizing multiple sources, Enzo Traverso depicts the dialectic of this era of wars, revolutions and genocides. Rejecting commonplace notions of "totalitarian evil," he rediscovers the feelings and reinterprets the ideas of an age of intellectual and political commitment when Europe shaped world history with its own collapse.
Enzo Traverso is the Susan and Barton Winokur Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University. His publications, all translated into various languages, include more than ten authored and edited books, including The Marxists and the Jewish Question , The Jews and Germany , Understanding the Nazi Genocide and The Origins of Nazi Violence .