Название: Absolute War: Violence and Mass Warfare in the German Lands, 1792-1820
Автор: Mark Hewitson
Издательство: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198787456
Год: 2017
Язык: английский
Страниц: 320
Формат: pdf
Размер: 2.1 MB
Wars have played a fundamental part in modern German history. Although infrequent, conflicts involving German states have usually been extensive and often catastrophic, constituting turning-points for Europe as a whole. Absolute War is the first in a series of studies from Mark Hewitson that explore how such conflicts were experienced by soldiers and civilians during wartime, and how they were subsequently imagined and understood during peacetime, from Clausewitz and Kleist to Junger and Adorno. Without such an understanding, it is difficult to make sense of the dramatic shifts characterising the politics of Germany and Europe over the past two centuries.