二战的代价.doc

二战的代价(一)
Books and Arts;Book review;The second world war;
文艺;书评;第二次世界大战;
Counting the cost;
二战代价几何?
Two British historians analyse the 20th century’s worst
conflict.
看两位英国历史学家如何剖析20世纪最严重的军事冲突。
All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945. By Max
Hastings.
《人间地狱:1939-1945,战争中的世界》作者:马克斯·哈斯丁.
The Second World War. By Antony Beevor.
《第二次世界大战》作者:安东尼·比弗。
History is full of wars that were bloodier than the second world war. As a proportion of the population, more people were killed during the An Lushan rebellion in eighth-century China, for example, or by the Thirty Years War in 17th-century central Europe. But the sheer magnitude of the human tragedy of the second world war puts it in a class of its own, and its relative closeness to the present day makes claims on the collective memory that more remote horrors cannot.
纵观人类历史,比第二次世界大战更血腥的战争比比皆是。例如,8世纪中国的安禄山叛乱或17世纪中欧的三十年战争死亡人数占总人口的比例就比二战大。然而,第二次世界大战造成的巨大人间惨剧本身让其他战争根本不能与之相提并论。而且,二战发生的年代相对较近,它给人类留下的集体记忆之深,是那些年代久远的恐怖战争无可比拟的。
The statistics of the war are almost mind-numbing. Estimates differ, but up to 70m people died as a direct consequence of the fighting between 1939 and 1945, about two-thirds of them batants, making it in absolute terms the deadliest conflict ever. Nearly one in ten Germans died and 30% of their army. About 15m Chinese perished and 27m Soviets. Squeezed between two totalitarian neighbours,