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Introduction

Evaluating the Second World War: celebration, doubt and complexity

Part One: Fomenting War

Chapter 1: A Wide World of Racisms

Chapter 2: Causes of the Pacific War: a longer view on Pearl Harbor

Chapter 3: Causes of the War in Europe: the paradoxical legacy of Munich

Part Two: Making War

Chapter 4: Bystanders: how much is not enough?

Chapter 5: Bombing civilian populations: a case of moral slippage

Chapter 6: Deep evil and deep good: the concept of “human nature” confronts the Holocaust

Chapter 7: Decisions at Midway, 1942: moral character as a factor in battle

Chapter 8: Tyranny triumphant: the moral awkwardness of the alliance with Stalin

Chapter 9: Kamikaze: wartime suicide attacks in anthropological perspective

Chapter 10: The decision to drop the atomic bomb: twelve questions

Part Three: Long-term Consequences of the War

Chapter 11: Justice for the unspeakable? The enduring legacy of the war crimes trials at Nuremberg and Tokyo

Chapter 12: Generations under a shadow: the challenge of peace since Hiroshima

Chapter 13: The politics of memory: remembering and un-remembering wartime

Conclusion

What would be the opposite of Hitler's world?

Michael Bess is Chancellor's Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. His book, "The Light-Green Society: Ecology and Technological Modernity in France, 1960-2000," won the 2004 George Perkins Marsh Prize for the best book on environmental history. He lives in Nashville, Tenn.