A Century of Horrors: Communism, Nazism, and the Uniqueness of the Shoah

by Alain Besançon

Book Overview

The twentieth century bears the indelible imprint of both communism and Nazism. Today, it sometimes seems as if the former is all but forgotten, at least among Western elites, while our cultural memory of the latter is an inextinguishable fire. This inequality is surprising and calls out for explanation, a task the French political thinker Alain Besancon attempts here in a wise and elegant meditation. In examining the horror and destruction caused...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933859180
• ISBN13: 9781933859187
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Intercollegiate Studies Institute
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 8.3"