Ted Grimsrud

WORLD WAR II

THE LONG SHADOW: WORLD WAR II’S MORAL LEGACY (these are rough drafts of the chapters of a forthcoming book)

1. Introduction

2. Jus Ad Bellum: The Reasons for War

3. Jus In Bello: The Conduct of the War

4. What the War Cost

5. Pax Americana

6. The Cold War

7. Full Spectrum Dominance

8. No to the War

9. Social Transformation

10. Servanthood

11. The Moral Legacy of World War II—And What We Might Do With It

Lecture:

“The Military Industrial Complex and the Moral Legacy of World War II”—Paper presented at the Military Industrial Complex at Fifty Conference at Guilford College, Greensboro, NC, January 14, 2011. [This is a slightly updated version of the 9/29/10 and 10/5/1o lectures taking into account the legacy of President Eisenhower's "farewell address" in 1961.]

“The Moral Legacy of World War II”—Lecture given at Eastern Mennonite University, September 29, 2010, and at Goshen College, October 5, 2010.  Here is a link to a podcast of the EMU lecture.

Blog entries:

“Our Fathers’ War” (December 26, 2010)

“How Should a Pacifist View World War II?” (January 21, 2011)

“World War II and America’s Soul: Christian Reflections” (February 20, 2011)

Book Reviews:

Baker, Nicholson. Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, The End of Civilization

Bess, Michael. Choices Under Fire: Moral Dimensions of World War II

Browning, Christopher R. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

Buchanan, Patrick J. Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War

Herman, Arthur. Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age

Hitchcock, William I. The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe

Kovac, Jeffrey. Refusing War, Affirming Peace

Loconte, Joseph, ed. The End of Illusions: Religious Leaders Confront Hitler’s Gathering Storm

Miller, Lawrence McK. Witness to Humanity: A Biography of Clarence E. Pickett

Schlabach, Theron F. War, Peace, and Social Conscience: Guy F. Hershberger and Mennonite Ethics

Sheehan, James J. Where Have All the Soldiers Gone? The Transformation of Modern Europe

  1. [...] just mention one reason why I would even raise the specter of totalitarianism at all. I am writing a book on the moral legacy of World War II. I have been deeply impressed (and depressed!) as I have learned more about this legacy—in a [...]

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