When Men Lost Faith in Reason: Reflections on War and Society in the Twentieth Century

by H. P. Willmott

Overview

Challenges conventional explanations of events through detailed consideration of certain wars and campaigns, including the 1991 campaign in the Middle East.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313070099
Publisher:	ABC-CLIO, Incorporated
Publication date:	08/30/2002
Series:	Studies in Military History and International Affairs Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

H. P. WILLMOTT is a Lecturer with the Greenwich Maritime Institute at the University of Greenwich. He has written extensively on modern military and naval subjects, including the critically acclaimed, The Great Crusade: A New Complete History of the Second World War.

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	ix
Chapter 1	New Perspectives: Twentieth-Century History, War, and Wars	1
Chapter 2	The First World War: Deadlock and Hatred	33
Chapter 3	A Reexamination of Interpretations of Aspects of the Second World War	73
Chapter 4	The Destruction of Values, 1945-1974	135
Chapter 5	Doctrine as the "Danger on the Utmost Edge of Hazard"	197
	Index	261