From Napoleon to Hitler: The Road to Total War, 1792–1945 - Einzelansicht

You are required to write three book reviews of 5,000 characters each. Select at least two books from the list below; a third book of your own choice is permitted. Two reviews are to be submitted by 23 December and the third by 24 February.

– David A. Bell, The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Modern Warfare (London: Bloomsbury, 2007)

– Richard Bessel, Violence: A Modern Obsession (London: Simon & Schuster, 2015)

– Manfred F. Boemeke, Roger Chickering and Stig Förster, eds., Anticipating Total War: The German and American Experiences, 1871–1914 (Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999)

– Tanja Bührer, Christian Stachelbeck and Dierk Walter, eds., Imperialkriege von 1500 bis heute. Strukturen – Akteure – Lernprozesse (Paderborn: Schöningh, 2011)

– Roger Chickering and Stig Förster, eds., Great War, Total War: Combat and Mobilization on the Western Front, 1914–1918 (Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000)

– Roger Chickering and Stig Förster, eds., The Shadows of Total War: Europe, East Asia and the United States, 1919–1939 (Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003)

– Roger Chickering and Stig Förster, eds., War in an Age of Revolution, 1775–1815 (Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010)

– Roger Chickering, Stig Förster and Bernd Greiner, eds., A World at Total War: Global Conflict and the Politics of Destruction, 1937–1945 (Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010)

– Stig Förster and Jörg Nagler, eds., On the Road to Total War: The American Civil War and the German Wars of Unification, 1861–1871 (Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002)

– Richard Holmes, Soldiers: Army Lives and Loyalties from Redcoats to Dusty Warriors (London: Harper Press, 2012)

– Sönke Neitzel and Daniel Hohrath, eds., Kriegsgreuel. Die Entgrenzung der Gewalt in kriegerischen Konflikten vom Mittelalter bis ins 20. Jahrhundert (Paderborn: Schöningh, 2008)

– Richard Overy, The Bombing War: Europe 1939–1945 (London: Allen Lane, 2013)

– Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (New York: Viking, 2011)

– Paul Preston, The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain (London: Harper Press, 2012)

– Hew Strachan and Sibylle Scheipers, eds., The Changing Character of War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013)

– Dierk Walter, Organisierte Gewalt in der europäischen Expansion. Gestalt und Logik des Imperialkrieges (Hamburg: Hamburger Edition, 2014)

– Alexander Watson, Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary at War, 1914–1918 (London: Allen Lane, 2014)

3 reviews of 5,000 characters each, which are due by 23 December (2) and 24 February (1).