Format:
1 online resource (521 pages)
ISBN:
9780191045387
Series Statement:
Oxford Illustrated History
Content:
World War Two was the most devastating conflict in recorded human history. It was both global in extent and total in character. It has understandably left a long and dark shadow across the decades. Yet it is three generations since hostilities formally ended in 1945 and the conflict is now a lived memory for only a few. And this growing distance in time has allowed historians to think differently about how to describe it, how to explain its course, and what subjectsto focus on when considering the wartime experience. For instance, as World War Two recedes ever further into the past, even a question as apparently basic as when it began and ended becomes less certain. Was it 1939, when the war in Europe began? Or the summer of 1941, with the beginning of Hitler's war against the Soviet Union? Or did it become truly global only when the Japanese brought the USA into the war at the end of 1941? And what of the long conflict in East Asia, beginning with the Japanese aggression in China in the early 1930s andonly ending with the triumph of the Chinese Communists in 1949? In The Oxford Illustrated History of World War Two a team of leading historians re-assesses the conflict for a new generation, exploring the course of the war not just in terms of the Allied response but also from the viewpoint of the Axis aggressor states. Under Richard Overy's expert editorial guidance, the contributions take us from the genesis of war, through the action in the major theatres of conflict by land, sea, and air, to assessments of fighting power and military andtechnical innovation, the economics of total war, the culture and propaganda of war, and the experience of war (and genocide) for both combatants and civilians, concluding with an account of the transition from World War to Cold War in the late 1940s. Together, they provide a stimulating and thought-provoking
Content:
COVER -- THE OXFORD ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II -- COPYRIGHT -- EDITOR'S PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF COLOUR PLATES -- LIST OF MAPS -- Introduction: Total War-Global War -- 1: The Genesis of World War -- Legacies of the First World War -- The Search for Security -- The Fighting Spreads -- 2: The Japanese Empire atWar, 1931-1945 -- Japan's Empire and the Roots of the Second World War in Asia, 1877-1931 -- Japan's Invasion of Manchuria: Starting the Fifteen-Year War -- The War of Resistance -- Military Authoritarianism in Japan -- Japan, the United States, and the Start of the Pacific War, 1940-1941 -- War and Occupation: South-East Asia -- The Politics of Food in Wartime China and Vietnam -- Conscription, Forced Labour, and Slavery in the Japanese Empire -- The Oceanic War, 1942-1945 -- Final Offensives: China and South-East Asia, 1931-1945 -- The End of the War with Japan -- 3: The Italian Wars -- Italy at War, and National Stereotypes -- Images or Complex Reality -- Radicalization -- Preparation for War? -- The Fascist War: A Gamble -- Attack and Occupation -- Albania, Greece, and the Balkans -- The Collapse of the Empire -- A Central Front -- From Parallel War to Subaltern War: Russia -- Disengagements -- Downfall -- Forty-Five Difficult Days -- The War of Liberation: From the South -- Resistance -- In the North -- Anomalous Prisoners: The Italian Military Internees -- Divided Country and Nazi Massacres -- Insurgency and Liberation -- Post-War Memories: The War Continues -- From Memoir to History -- 4: The German Wars -- Hitler and German Foreign Policy -- Germany Alone -- The 'Barbarossa' Gamble -- The Path to Defeat -- 5: The West and the War at Sea -- The Attack on Shipping -- Defeating Axis Naval Power in Europe -- The Two-Ocean War -- Defeating the U-Boat -- Sea Power and Allied Victory -- 6: The Allies from Defeat to Victory.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780199605828
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780199605828
Language:
English
Keywords:
Zweiter Weltkrieg
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Geschichte
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