Norrell, Robert J.

How history was used in the wars of the twentieth century : perpetual war for perpetual peace / Robert J. Norrell. - Lanham: Lexington Books, 2023 - 228p.; 24cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The war that will end war -- Versailles: riot in a Parrot House -- Die Kriegschuldfrage: German historians in the 1920s -- American revisionism: three accounts of war guilt -- German historians under Hitler -- Berlin diary -- The shape of things to come: appeasement and isolationism -- German catastrophe: the Second World War -- Cold War: the bewitchment of analogy -- The 1960s: revisionism and post-revisionism -- Kissinger's revision of American foreign policy -- The Holocaust: the past that did not pass away -- The end of history

"How History Was Used in the Wars of the Twentieth Century: Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace examines the decisions that historical thinking shaped about war and peace in Germany and the United States during the twentieth century and how contemporary scholars can better understand the influences of today's historical insight"--

9781666941975


Historiography--History--Germany--20th century.
Historiography--History--United States--20th century.
Twentieth century--Historiography.
Violence--History--20th century.
Peace--History--20th century.
World War, 1914-1918--Historiography.
World War, 1939-1945--Historiography.
Cold War--Historiography.

909.82 / R3