Choices Under Fire: Moral Dimensions of World War II by Bess, Michael

Choices Under Fire: Moral Dimensions of World War II (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780307275806)

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Choices Under Fire: Moral Dimensions of World War II by Bess, Michael

Choices Under Fire: Moral Dimensions of World War II

$18.00
Choices Under Fire: Moral Dimensions of World War II by Bess, Michael

Choices Under Fire: Moral Dimensions of World War II

$18.00
Format: Paperback
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World War II was the quintessential "good war." It was not, however, a conflict free of moral ambiguity, painful dilemmas, and unavoidable compromises. Was the bombing of civilian populations in Germany and Japan justified? Were the Nuremberg and Tokyo war crimes trials legally scrupulous? What is the legacy bequeathed to the world by Hiroshima? With wisdom and clarity, Michael Bess brings a fresh eye to these difficult questions and others, arguing eloquently against the binaries of honor and dishonor, pride and shame, and points instead toward a nuanced reckoning with one of the most pivotal conflicts in human history.

Author: Michael Bess
ISBN-10: 0307275809
ISBN-13: 9780307275806
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 03/11/2008
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.28w x 0.87d
By Michael Bess
By Michael Bess
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Michael Bess is professor of history at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of The Light Green Society: Ecology and Technological Modernity in France, 1960-2000, and Realism, Utopia, and the Mushroom Cloud: Four Activist Intellectuals and Their Strategies for Peace, 1945-1989.

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