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Do you agree with the statement that the Second World War was history’s most destructive war? Elaborate.

  • UPSC 2020
  • World Wars

The claim can be affirmed on almost every measurable axis of destruction, though the reasoning must go beyond body-counts alone.

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  • An Unprecedented Human Toll
  • Total War Erases the Line Between Combatant and Civilian
  • The Holocaust: Extermination as State Policy
  • The Atomic Bomb: A New Ceiling of Destruction
  • Economic and Infrastructural Ruin
  • Destructiveness in Comparative Perspective

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