Recensioni

Journal title PASSATO E PRESENTE
Author/s Roberto Bianchi, Valeria Galimi
Publishing Year 2014 Issue 2014/91 Language Italian
Pages 18 P. 145-162 File size 106 KB
DOI 10.3280/PASS2014-091008
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The beauty and the sorrow of World War I - Analyzes the book of Peter Englund, based on a close reading of memoirs, diaries and letters of the 1914-18 War. The author emphasizes the global dimensions of the conflict, and the close relationship between the intimate stories of individuals and History, raising important reflections on the use of historical sources and the renewal of the historiography on the World War I.

Nazism and violence. The intellectuals in the SS War machine - This review analyzes the book of the French historian Christian Ingrao on a group of young intellectuals engagés in the Security Service (SD) of the SS. Ingrao reconstructs the biographical paths of eighty "intellectuals", from their education, the recruitment in the Nsdap structure, and, then, the involvement during the War, mainly after the invasion of the Soviet Union, in the extermination of Jews on the Eastern Front.

Keywords: World War I, Total War, personal narratives, memoirs and diaries, Global history, Microhistory - Nazism, violence, intellectuals, Eastern Front

Roberto Bianchi, Valeria Galimi, Recensioni in "PASSATO E PRESENTE" 91/2014, pp 145-162, DOI: 10.3280/PASS2014-091008