The Cambridge history of the Second World War / edited by John Ferris and Evan Mawdsley [and four others]

The Cambridge History of the Second World War is an authoritative new account of the conflict that unfolded between 1939 and 1945. With contributions from a team of leading historians, the three volumes adopt a transnational approach to offer a comprehensive, global analysis of the military, politic...

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Other Authors: Ferris, John Robert, 1956- (Editor), Mawdsley, Evan, 1945- (Editor)
Format: Manuscript Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
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Table of Contents:
  • Volume 1. Fighting the war / edited by John Ferris and Evan Mawdsley ( British military strategy / David French ; China's long war with Japan / Jay Taylor ; French grand strategy and defence preparations / Martin S. Alexander ; German strategy, 1939-1945 / Gerhard L. Weinberg ; Mussolini's strategy, 1939-1943 / John Gooch ; Feigning grand strategy : Japan, 1937-1945 / Alessio Patalano ; U.S. grand strategy, 1939-1945 / Thomas G. Mahnken ; Soviet strategy / Bruce W. Menning and Jonathan House ; Campaigns in China, 1937-1945 / Hans Van De Ven ;The war in the West, 1939-1940 : an unplanned Blitzkrieg / Karl-Heinz Frieser, translated by Harvey L. Mendelsohn ;The war in the West, 1939-1940 : the Battle of Britain? / John Ferris and Evan Mawdsley ; Operations on the Eastern Front, 1941-1945 / David R. Stone ;The Mediterranean and North Africa, 1940-1944 / Simon Ball ;The war in the West, 1943-1945 / Mary Kathryn Barbier ;The war in the Pacific, 1941-1945 / John T. Kuehn ;The Atlantic war, 1939-1945 / Marc Milner ; Anglo-American strategic bombing, 1940-1945 / Tami Davis Biddle ; War planning / Eliot A. Cohen ; Armies, navies, air forces : the instruments of war / Dennis Showalter ; Filling the ranks : conscription and personnel policies / Sanders Marble ; Logistics by land and air / Phillips Payson O'Brien ; Intelligence / John Ferris ; Prisoners of war / Bob Moore ; Guerrillas and counter-insurgency / Ben H. Shepherd)
  • volume 2. Politics and ideology / edited by Richard J.B. Bosworth and Joseph A. Maiolo (The Axis : Germany, Japan and Italy on the road to war / Robert Gerwarth ; Western Allied ideology, 1939-1945 / Talbot Imlay ;The Soviet Union and the international left / Silvio Pons ;The propaganda war / Jo Fox ; Reporting from the battlefield : censorship and journalism / Steven Casey ; International organizations / Patricia Clavin ; Nazi genocides / Jürgen Matthäus ; War crimes trials / Donald Bloxham and Jonathan Waterlow ; Europe : the failure of diplomacy, 1933-1940 / Peter Jackson ; Asia-Pacific : the failure of diplomacy, 1931-1941 / Peter Mauch ;The diplomacy of the Axis, 1940-1945 / Norman J.W. Goda ;The diplomacy of the Grand Alliance / David Reynolds ; Spain : betting on a Nazi victory / Paul Preston ; Sweden : negotiated neutrality / Klas Åmark ; Wartime occupation by Germany : food and sex / Nicholas Stargardt ; Collaboration, resistance and liberation in Western Europe / William I. Hitchcock ; Wartime occupation by Italy / Davide Rodogno ; Collaboration, resistance and liberation in the Balkans, 1941-1945 / Gregor Kranjc ; Soviet liberations and occupations, 1939-1949 / Mark Edele ; Collaboration, resistance and accommodation in Northeast Asia / Margherita Zanasi ; Japanese occupation of Southeast Asia, 1941-1945 / Paul H. Kratoska and Ken'ichi Goto ;The British Empire, 1939-1945 / Ashley Jackson ; France and its colonial civil wars, 1940-1945 / Martin Thomas ;The Muslim world in the Second World War / David Motadel)
  • volume 3. Total war : economy, society and culture / edited by Michael Geyer and Adam Tooze ( The economics of the war with Nazi Germany / Adam Tooze and Jamie Martin ; Finance for war in Asia and its aftermath / Gregg Huff ; War of the factories / Jeffrey Fear ; Controlling resources : coal, iron ore and oil in the Second World War / David Edgerton ;The human fuel : food as global commodity and local scarcity / Lizzie Collingham ; Sea transport / Michael Miller ; Knowledge economies : toward a new technological age / Cathryn Carson ; Environments, states and societies at war / Chris Pearson ; Death and survival in the Second World War / Richard Bessel ; Wars of displacement : exile and uprooting in the 1940s / Yasmin Khan ;The war of the cities : industrial labouring forces / Rüdiger Hachtmann ; Battles for morale : an entangled history of total war in Europe, 1939-1945 / Jochen Hellbeck ; Hors de combat : mobilization and immobilization in total war / Geoffrey Cocks ;The war of the villages : the interwar agrarian crisis and the Second World War / Adam Tooze ; Sexuality and sexual violence / Sabine Frühstück ;A war for liberty : on the law of conscientious objection / Jeremy K. Kessler ; Against war : pacifism as collaboration and as resistance / Devin O. Pendas ; Humanitarian politics and governance : international responses to the civilian toll in the Second World War / Stephen Porter ; Making peace as a project of moral reconstruction / Mark Philip Bradley ; Renegotiating the social contract : Western Europe, Great Britain, Europe and North America / Timothy B. Smith ;The rise and fall of central planning / David C. Engerman ; Nationalism, decolonization, geopolitics and the Asian post-war / Rana Mitter ; Interpretations of catastrophe : German intellectuals on Nazism, genocide and mass destruction / Peter E. Gordon ;The ghosts of war / Monica Black ; Popular memory, popular culture : the war in the post-war world / Lucy Noakes ;The Second World War in global memory space / Jie-Hyun Lim ; Landscapes of destruction : capturing images and creating memory through photography / Dorothee Brantz)