A world at total war : global conflict and the politics of destruction, 1937-1945

A world at total war global conflict and the politics of destruction, 1937-1945

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This volume presents the results of a fifth and final conference on the history of total war. It is devoted to the Second World War, which many scholars regard as the paradigmatic instance of total war. In considering the validity of this proposition, the authors address a broad range of analytical...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: German Historical Institute (Washington, D.C.) (-)
Otros Autores: Chickering, Roger, 1942- (-), Förster, Stig, Greiner, Bernd
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Cambridge, UK ; New York : German Historical Institute ; Cambridge University Press 2005.
Colección:CUP ebooks.
Publications of the German Historical Institute.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Are we there yet? World War II and the theory of total war / Roger Chickering and Stig Förster
  • Total war : the global dimensions of conflict / Gerhard L. Weinberg
  • Total war : the conduct of war, 1939-1945 / Hew Strachan
  • The ultimate horror : reflections on total war and genocide / Stig Förster and Myriam Gessler
  • Germany and the battle of the Atlantic / Holger H. Herwig
  • From Blitzkrieg to total war : Germany's war in Europe / Jürgen Förster
  • Global yet not total : the U.S. war effort and its consequences / Dennis Showalter
  • The USSR and total war : why didn't the Soviet economy collapse in 1942? / Mark Harrison
  • Blood, sweat, and tears : British mobilization for World War II / Stephen Broadberry and Peter Howlett
  • The impact of compulsory labor on German society at war / Hans Mommsen
  • Fantasy, reality, and modes of perception in Ludendorff's and Goebbel's concepts of total war / Martin Kutz
  • The home front in total war : women in Germany and Britain in the Second World War / Jill Stephenson
  • Women in the Soviet war effort, 1941-1945 / John Barber
  • The Spirit of St. Louis : mobilizing American politics and society, 1937-1945 / Bernd Greiner
  • Partisan war in Belorussia, 1941-1944 / Hans-Heinrich Nolte
  • Allied bombing and the destruction of German cities / Richard Overy
  • Accidental judgments, casual slaughters : Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and total war / Robert L. Messer
  • Sexual violence and its prosecution by courts martial of the Wehrmacht / Birgit Beck
  • Ideologies of difference and the turn to atrocity : Japan's war on China / Louise Young
  • On the road to total retribution? The international debate on the punishment of war crimes, 1872-1945 / Daniel Marc Segesser
  • Total war : some concluding reflections / Michael Howard.

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