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Includes bibliographical references and index. 447 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm

This book compares the genocide perpetrated by both Nazism and Communism. Both political systems were evil yet, when compared, they lose some of their power to shock. The book considers: the different receptions given to Nazism and Communism; whether people can behave "rationally" in contexts of great wickedness; whether the Communist or Nazi worldview was more "rational" the relationship between post-war ...

Met lit. opg.

"[This book] is the first cultural history of the 'witness to genocide' in the West. Carolyn J. Dean shows how the witness became a protagonist of twentieth-century moral culture by tracing the emergence of this figure in courtroom battles from the 1920s to the 1960s, covering the Armenian genocide, the Ukrainian pogroms, the Soviet Gulag, and the trial of Adolf Eichmann. In these trials, witness testimonies ...

Overdruk uit: Yad Vashem bulletin ; no. 13 (Oct. 1963). 11 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes index. XXVII, 222 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

206 p.

Omslagtitel. 234 p. : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Met lit. opg., reg. 384 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Ungekürzte Ausg. 522 pages ; 18 cm

A classic treatment of the morality of war written by one of our country's leading philosophers, with a new introduction considering the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo. Just and Unjust Wars examines a variety of conflicts in order to understand exactly why, according to Walzer, "the argument about war and justice is still a political and moral necessity." Walzer's classic work draws on historical illustrations ...

Includes bibliographical references. 346 pages ; 24 cm