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| Notes: Total War and Twentieth-Century Higher Learning: Universities of the Western World in the First and Second World Wars. Hardcover, 1991. 133 pages, with Chapter Notes, Bibliography and Index. Fine hardcover, full bound in black cloth with bright guilt lettering to spine. Clean inside and out; binding is solid and square. Dust jacket is Good, with some color loss from a sticker removal at the lower left front panel and wrapping around to the bottom part of the spine. Else Very Good to Near Fine. From the front flap: "When world war erupted in 1914, the university had existed in the Western world for nearly 800 years. In all those years, from the founding of the first universities in Bologna and Paris to the twentieth century, these institutions faced no challenges more threatening than those presented by the two world wars.... In this study, Today vividly describes the rule of the university in modern urbanized life, a role that necessarily becomes deeply involved in an interaction with the all-consuming phenomenon of total war. | |||||||||||||||