History Catalogue 2006.qxp - Blackwell Publishing

ALFRED, KREBS,storyofModernGermany180–20, AiMARTIN, TCHEN KI1918-20Germany of story HiMARY ,, BEREL ioti lHISTORY OF MODERN GERMANY / THE HOLOCAUST22NEW IN 2006Theon,isvi eDiMoralThe Morale DivisionALFRED MÉTRAUXLate of École des Hautes Études, ParisEDGARDOMÉTRAUXEdited by EDGARDO KREBSSmithsonian Institution“Total devastation, not a soul, not one object isintact… Trees in the park dead but still standing: avision of winter in springtime… Nothing is moredisturbing than this peace, this feeling of comfort andcalm associated with utter destruction: the houses areempty shells.”During the last stages of the SecondWorld War the United StatesStrategic Bombing Survey (USSBS)was formed to assess the effects ofAllied bombing on the German warmachinery and civilian population.Many scholars and young intellectualswere hired to carry out thisintelligence effort, among themJohn Kenneth Galbraith, Paul Nitze,W.H. Auden, and Alfred Métraux.“A deportee from Auschwitz and Ebensee withnumbers tattooed on his back and chest. Theman who weeps when he talks about his son,cremated in Auschwitz… Crematoriums as bigas Renault factories… Some of the women donothing but weep through the entire interview.”What these individuals witnessed challenged their senseof reality for they saw not only the utter devastation ofGerman cities; they were among the first individuals to talkto the survivors of the Holocaust. Both Auden and famedanthropologist Métraux worked for the Morale Division,entering Germany immediately after the Allied troops hadestablished control of portions of German territory tointerview civilian survivors of the War.The only direct testimonial by a member of the MoraleDivision that has been recovered are the Métraux diariesand letters collected here. They constitute a poignantaccount of the moral devastation of war. Intimate andunflinchingly honest, these documents, published for thefirst time, offer the reader a window into one of the mostsignificant moments in modern history.304 PAGES / 1-4051-0560-7 HB / MAY 2006NEW KEY TEXTBOOKA History of ModernGermany 1800–2000MARTIN KITCHENSimon Fraser University“The best general textbook now available onmodern Germany.”V.R. BERGHAHN, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITYThis engaging textbook provides a broad survey ofmodern German history from 1800-2000, and situatesGermany's fragmented past within its full context.Organized chronologically, the book addresses all themajor watersheds in German history, including theunification, the rise and fall of the German Empire, theemergence of the Weimar Republic and its eventualsubmergence by the Third Reich, the collapse of theThird Reich with the Second World War, the birth of theFederal Republic, the collapse of Communism, andre-unification. A HISTORY OF MODERN GERMANYexamines cultural issues such as class, religion, andgender, as well as political and economic history, andincludes coverage of regional history rather thanfocusing on the dominant role of Prussia.448 PAGES / 1-4051-0040-0 HB / 1-4051-0041-9 PB / OCTOBER 2005ALSO OF INTEREST1780-1918Germany,of storyHistoryHiof Germany 1780-1918, Second EditionDAVID,DAVIDBLACKBOURNBLACKBOURNSERIES: BLACKWELL CLASSIC HISTORIES OF EUROPE480 PAGES / 0-631-23195-1 HB / 0-631-23196-X PB / 2002History of Germany 1918-2000, Second EditionMARYFULBROKFULBROOKSERIES: BLACKWELL CLASSIC HISTORIES OF EUROPE352 PAGES / 0-631-23207-9 HB / 0-631- 23208-7 PB / 2002TheThe, ocaustHolHolocaustA ReaderEdited by SIMONE GIGLIOTTI& BEREL LANGSimoneLANG,Victoria University of Wellington; TrinityCollege, Hartford“The book is very much what itpromises, a reader designed tointroduce the student tothinking about the Holocaust inanalytical terms.”AUSTRALIAN JEWISH NEWSThis collection of primary andsecondary readings encouragesstudents to engage critically withcurrent debates about the origins,implementation, and postwarinterpretation of the Holocaust.The READER is divided into sixchronological sections andcontains thematic subsections,each of which can be used byinstructors as the basis for oral orwritten exercises. Oral histories andthe testimonies of both victimsand perpetrators - from Jewishcouncil leaders, to ghetto andconcentration camp victims, to SSofficials and German soldiers - areintegrated throughout.488 PAGES1-4051-1399-5 HB1-4051-1400-2 PB / 2004JOURNALSGerman Life and LettersEdited by GERALD GILLESPIE, MARGARET LITTLER, J. M. RITCHIE,JOHN SANDFORD, R. C. SPEIRS & HELEN WATANABE-O’KELLYwww.blackwellpublishing.com/journals/GLAL