This Book Will Make You Think: Philosophical Quotes and What They Mean explains as simply as possible the ideas behind the world's most highly regarded philosophers.
There is a tendency to teach the Holocaust from a social and moral perspective and not as history. This book attempts to explain and debate this phenomenon. Drawing on interviews with educationalists, academics and teachers, it considers how the topic of the Holocaust is being taught in schools in the UK and overseas.
The Second World War (1939-45) was not greeted with the same lavish outpouring of patriotic fervour that had attended August 1914. The Great War had been heralded as `the war to end all wars';One significant difference between the two conflicts is that, whilst both were industrial wars, the Second World War was far nearerthe concept of total war.
