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The century of total war.

Title
The century of total war.
Author
Aron, Raymond, 1905-1983
Publication
Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1954.

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379 p.
Subject
  • Military history, Modern > 20th century
  • Total war
  • World politics > 20th century
  • World politics
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
PART 1. FROM SARAJEVO TO HIROSHIMA: The Technical Surprise Dynamism of Total War ; The Leninist Myth of Imperialism ; War and the Total State ; Necessity and Accident -- PART 2. CROSSROADS OF HISTORY: The Rise of the Peripheral States ; From Marxism to Stalinism ; Expansion of Stalinism ; The Atomic Age ; Logic and Chance -- PART 3. LIMITED WAR: The Conventions of the Cold War ; Reversal of Alliances ; Intercontinental Equilibrium ; Stalinism and the Shade of the Past ; The Cold War-Preparation or Substitute for Total War? -- PART 4. A HELPLESS EUROPE?: Dialectic of the Extremes ; The National Socialisms ; Can Europe Live? ; Can Europe Unite? ; Has Europe a Historic Vitality? ; CONCLUSION. THE STAKE: After Stalin ; The End of the Socialist Myth ; Faith Without Illusions.
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Harvard Library