Crimes of War

Guilt and Denial in the Twentieth Century

Edited by Omer Bartov, Atina Grossmann, and Mary Nolan

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$19.95 / £11.95

Including original contributions from distinguished European and American historians such as Saul Friedländer, Omer Bartov, John Dower, Christopher Browning, and Marilyn Young, Crimes of War surveys wartime atrocities committed by the United States, Germany, and Japan across the twentieth century. Available now for the first time in paperback, the book presents startling new evidence of the killing of unarmed Koreans by American troops at No Gun Ri, of atrocities committed by Nazi soldiers on the Russian front, and of Japanese barbarity in China during World War II. Emerging from these accounts is a distinctive, repeated pattern, which typically includes a half-century of denial before the truth is confronted.

Omer Bartov is the John P. Birkelund Professor of European History at Brown University and the author, most recently, of Mirrors of Destruction. Atina Grossmann is associate professor of history at the Cooper Union in New York. She is the author of Reforming Sex. Mary Nolan is the author of Visions of Modernity and is a professor of history at New York University.