How History Was Used in the Wars of the Twentieth Century

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By Robert J. Norrell

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How History Was Used in the Wars of the Twentieth Century: Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace examines the decisions that historical thinking shaped about war and peace in Germany and the United States during the twentieth century and how contemporary scholars can better understand the influences of today's historical insight.

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Introduction

Chapter 1: The War that Will End War

Chapter 2: Versailles: Riot in a Parrot House

Chapter 3: Die Kriegschuldfrage: German Historians in the 1920s

Chapter 4: American Revisionism: Three Accounts of War Guilt

Chapter 5: German Historians under Hitler

Chapter 6: Berlin Diary

Chapter 7: The Shape of Things to Come: Appeasement and Isolationism

Chapter 8: German Catastrophe: the Second World War

Chapter 9: Cold War: The Bewitchment of Analogy

Chapter 10: The 1960s: Revisionism and post-Revisionism

Chapter 11: Kissinger's Revision of American Foreign Policy

Chapter 12: The Holocaust: The Past That Did Not Pass Away

Chapter 13: The End of History

Acknowledgments

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