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Challenging Rational Explanations of Genocidal Killing and Altruism - Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996), 656 pp., $16.00 paper, 640 pp., $29.50 cloth. - Revolution and Genocide: On the Origins of the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust, Robert Melson (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1992), 386 pp., $16.95 paper. - The Heart of Altruism: Perceptions of a Common Humanity, Kristen Renwick Monroe (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996), 320 pp., $29.95 cloth. - Raoul Wallenberg, revised edition, Harvey Rosenfeld (New York: Holmes and Meier, 1995) 290 pp., $19.95 paper.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2012

Jolene Jesse
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

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Recent Books on Ethics and International Affairs
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Copyright © Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 1997

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