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Dynamic of Destruction: Culture and Mass Killing in the First World War

by Alan Kramer

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Taking the burning of Louvain library by German troops in 1914 as his starting point, award-winning historian Alan Kramer offers a vivid new account of the wave of cultural destruction and mass killing that swept across Europe in the second and third decades of the 20th century.

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A very academic look at certain features of the First World War.

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Canonical title: Dynamic of Destruction: Culture and Mass Killing in the First World War
Important events: World War I (1914 | 1918)

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Languages: English
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Published: 2007
Genres: History, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS: 940.405
LCC: D625 .K73

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