· BESS, Michael. Choices under fire; moral dimensions of World War II. Random House, Vintage. p. illus. notes. bibliog. index. c $ SA* Unlike the Vietnam War, WW II never had to undergo the searching, even scathing, moral evaluations that the later conflict has engendered. * Textbook: John Keegan, The Second World War (Penguin, ) * Richard Overy, Why the Allies Won (Norton, ) * Yoshida Mitsuru, Requiem for Battleship Yamato (Naval Institute Press, ) * Michael Bess, Choices Under Fire: Moral Dimensions of World War II (Vintage, ) * Course Class Pack (available at Campus Copy in Rand Hall). In this book I seek to show how the moral choices made by individual persons — military and civilian, at all levels of society — played a pivotal role both in shaping World War II and in determining its long-term impact on the postwar world. This moral dimension of the war revealed itself in three distinct ways.
Choices Under Fire: Moral Dimensions of World War II - Kindle edition by Bess, Michael. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Choices Under Fire: Moral Dimensions of World War II. Michael Bess, Choices Under Fire: Moral Dimensions of World War II () World War II was not a conflict free of moral ambiguity, painful dilemmas, and unavoidable compromises. Michael Bess brings a fresh eye to these difficult issues. choices under fire moral dimensions of world war ii is universally compatible taking into account any devices to read. Choices Under Fire-Michael Bess 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.
BESS, Michael. Choices under fire; moral dimensions of World War II. Random House, Vintage. p. illus. notes. bibliog. index. c $ SA* Unlike the Vietnam War, WW II never had to undergo the searching, even scathing, moral evaluations that the later conflict has engendered. In Choices Under Fire, Bess pens essays about the moral issues faced in World War II. You can read these essays independently from each other. Bess discusses racism, the kamikazes, the atomic bomb, bombing civilian populations, the battle of Midway, cooperating with Stalin, the holocaust, and the war crimes trials. Choices under Fire: Moral Dimensions of World War II Michael Bess brings a fresh eye to these difficult questions and others, arguing eloquently against the.
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