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02616aam a2200469Ka 4500 001 18E31528417611E084E1F7B76AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20190228010452 008 110222r20112010nyu b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 0060580976 020 $a 9780060580971 040 $a UPZ $c UPZ $d SILO $d SILO 082 04 $a 940.54 $2 22 100 1 $a Burleigh, Michael, $d 1955- 245 1 $a Moral combat : $b a history of World War II / $c Michael Burleigh. 260 $a New York : $b HarperCollins, $c 2011. 300 $a p. ; $c cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 500 $a Originally published in Great Britain in 2010. 520 1 $a British historian Burleigh (Blood Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism) delivers a long, riveting account of the awful atrocities of WWII and the perverted 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). 505 0 $a The predators -- Appeasement -- Brotherly enemies -- The rape of Poland -- Trampling the remains -- Not losing: Churchill's Britain -- Under the swastika: Nazi occupied Europe -- Barbarossa -- Global war -- The resistance -- Moral calculus -- Beneath the mask of command -- Antagonistic allies -- 'We were savages': combat soldiers -- Massacring the innocents -- Journeys through night -- Observing an avalanche -- Tenuous altruism -- 'The King's thunderbolts are righteous': RAF Bomber Command -- Is that Britain?--No, it's Brittany -- The predators at bay. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Moral and ethical aspects. 941 $a 16 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20240702021139.0 952 $l DPPE403 $d 20240611014125.0 952 $l ALPE516 $d 20240417014323.0 952 $l SFPH074 $d 20240314032558.0 952 $l PQAX094 $d 20231214041719.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20231012021741.0 952 $l UPAX334 $d 20230104042502.0 952 $l BNPD611 $d 20210323020918.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006055736.0 952 $l MXPG943 $d 20180720043234.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20170418082223.0 952 $l FMPC224 $d 20160209013512.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20151001044217.0 952 $l XHPD657 $d 20150409095733.0 952 $l PRAX771 $d 20110903013317.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20110505010626.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=18E31528417611E084E1F7B76AFF544E 994 $a C0 $b UIBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search