{"product_id":"dynamic-of-destruction","title":"Dynamic of Destruction","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alan Kramer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43528633516093,"sku":"9780199543779","price":66.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9780199543779.jpg?v=1788086365","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/dynamic-of-destruction","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}