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Not so good war.

Publication: The Christian Century
Publication Date: 29-MAY-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Not so good war.(Choices Under Fire: Moral Dimensions of World War II book)(Book review)

Article Excerpt
Choices Under Fire: Moral Dimensions of World War II. By Michael Bess. Knopf, 395 pp., $27.50.

WORLD WAR II is not only history that we think about, but history with which we think. Unlike any other armed conflict, this war has entered the fabric of the moral discourse of modern men and women; one cannot imagine that discourse without the points of reference that events such as Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima and the Holocaust have provided for it.

For many, perhaps most, Americans, World War II is simply the Good War, the successful defeat of a brutal enemy by a self-sacrificial generation. Yet if we reflect not only on the Allied cause itself but also on the manner in which it was prosecuted, we might be inclined to join Studs Terkel in putting quotation marks around the phrase "Good War." As the bitter controversy over the Smithsonian's Enola Gay/Hiroshima exhibition in 1995 suggested, even if we agree that...

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