Michael Bess
Auteur van Choices Under Fire: Moral Dimensions of World War II
Over de Auteur
Michael Bess is Chancellor's Professor of History at Vanderbilt University and the author of Choices Under Fire and The Light-Green Society. He received a Guggenheim fellowship and a grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute to conduct the research for this book.
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- Officiële naam
- Bess, Michael Demaree
- Geboortedatum
- 1955
- Geslacht
- male
- Woonplaatsen
- Nashville, Tennessee, USA
- Opleiding
- Reed College (BA|Philosophy)
University of California, Berkeley (MA|History)
University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D|History) - Beroepen
- Chancellor’s Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
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- 9
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- 164
- Populariteit
- #129,117
- Waardering
- 4.1
- Besprekingen
- 24
- ISBNs
- 19
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