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On 26 August 1914 the world-famous university library in the Belgian town of Louvain was looted and destroyed by German troops. The international community reacted in horror - 'Holocaust at Louvain' proclaimed the Daily Mail - and the behaviour of the Germans at Louvain came to be seen as the beginning of a different style of war, without the rules that had governed military conflict up to that point - a more total war, in which enemy civilians and their entire culture were now 'legitimate' targets. Yet the destruction at Louvain was simply one symbolic moment in a wider wave of cultural destruction and mass killing that swept Europe in the era of the First World War. Using a wide range of examples and eye-witness accounts from across Europe at this time, award-winning historian Alan Kramer paints a picture of an entire continent plunging into a chilling new world of mass mobilization, total warfare, and the celebration of nationalist or ethnic violence - often directed expressly at the enemy's civilian population.

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• List of Illustrations(p. viii)
• List of Maps(p. x)
• Abbreviations(p. xi)
• Introduction(p. 1)
• 1 The Burning of Louvain(p. 6)
• 2 The Radicalization of Warfare(p. 31)
• 3 The Warriors(p. 69)
• 4 German Singularity?(p. 114)
• 5 Culture and War(p. 159)
• 6 Trench Warfare and its Consequences(p. 211)
• 7 War, Bodies, and Minds(p. 230)
• 8 Victory, Trauma, and Post-War Disorder(p. 268)
• Conclusion(p. 328)
• Historiographical Note(p. 339)
• Appendix Hague Convention (IV) Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land (1907)(p. 347)
• Notes(p. 349)
• Bibliography(p. 394)
• Sources and Acknowledgements for Illustrations(p. 416)
• Index(p. 419)