02112cam a2200313 i 4500 296008430 TxAuBib 20110405120000.0 110222s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780060580971 0060580976 (OCoLC)703284351 eng rda TxAuBib rda Burleigh, Michael, 1955- Moral combat [BOOK] : Good and evil in World War II / Michael Burleigh. Good and evil in World War II. New York : HarperCollins, 2011. xxi, 650 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Originally published in Great Britain in 2010. Includes bibliographical references and index. The predators -- Appeasement -- Brotherly enemies -- The rape of Poland -- Trampling the remains -- Not losing: Churchill's Britain -- Under the swastika: Nazi occupied Europe -- Barbarossa -- Global war -- The resistance -- Moral calculus -- Beneath the mask of command -- Antagonistic allies -- 'We were savages': combat soldiers -- Massacring the innocents -- Journeys through night -- Observing an avalanche -- Tenuous altruism -- 'The King's thunderbolts are righteous': RAF Bomber Command -- Is that Britain?--No, it's Brittany -- The predators at bay. British historian Burleigh (Blood Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism) delivers a long, riveting account of the awful atrocities of WWII and the perverted reasoning behind them. Burleigh explains that Communist, Nazi, Fascist, and Japanese systems claimed to be regimes of public virtue carrying out inexorable historical processes. Proclaiming that the only evil was obstructing this march to utopia, they discarded the rule of law and alternative moral authority (religion, ethics). 20110406. World War, 1939-1945 Moral and ethical aspects. World War, 1939-1945.