Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide, and Modern Identity

by Omer Bartov

Book Overview

Mirrors of Destruction examines the relationship between total war, state-organized genocide, and the emergence of modern identity. Here, Omer Bartov demonstrates that in the twentieth century there have been intimate links between military conflict, mass murder of civilian populations, and the definition and categorization of groups and individuals.

These connections were most clearly manifested in the Holocaust, as the Nazis attempted to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195077237
• ISBN13: 9780195077230
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.6"