Murder in Our Midst: The Holocaust, Industrial Killing, and Representation

by Omer Bartov

Book Overview

War endlessly tries to mask itself. The myth of the heroic soldier testing his individual courage stands in stark contrast to the reality of mass, anonymous death and the suppression of individual actions. Murder in Our Midst shows that this fundamental tension reached its natural conclusion in the Holocaust, and that disguising it has required an ongoing effort to misrepresent war and the Holocaust as something other than industrial killing.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019509848X
• ISBN13: 9780195098488
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"