Murder in Our Midst The Holocaust, Industrial Killing, and Representation

Summary: "This collection of recent articles is a refreshing example of a historian prepared to think about questions that actually matter, with the unresolved quality of many of the arguments being one of the book's many beguiling features. Bartov's primary concern in 'Murder in Our Midst' is with the emergence in our century of industrialized mass killing and of how intellectuals, or indeed entire societies, have negotiated... memories of this, in some cases by denying or ignoring it." [read more]