Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 392 pages)
,
digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781139052382
Series Statement:
Publications of the German Historical Institute
Content:
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 problems that this vast conflict posed in the arenas of Europe and Asia. They analyze modes of combat, war aims, the mobilization of economies and societies, occupation regimes, the vulnerability of noncombatants, and the legal and moral issues raised by the industrialized warfare of the mid-twentieth century. The volume will be of interest to all students of war and society in the modern era.
Content:
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
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521155137
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521834322
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521834322
Language:
English
Keywords:
Zweiter Weltkrieg
;
Totaler Krieg
;
Geschichte 1937-1947
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781139052382
URL:
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Author information:
Chickering, Roger 1942-
Author information:
Greiner, Bernd 1952-
Author information:
Förster, Stig 1951-
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