A World at Total War: Global Conflict and the Politics of Destruction, 1937-1945Roger Chickering, Stig Förster, Bernd Greiner, German Historical Institute (Washington, D.C.) Cambridge University Press, 2005 - 392 pages 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 its European and Asian theaters. 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. |
Table des matières
The Dimensions of War | 7 |
Total War The Global Dimensions of Conflict | 9 |
Total War The Conduct of War 19391945 | 23 |
The Ultimate Horror Reflections on Total War and Genocide | 43 |
Combat | 59 |
Germany and the Battle of the Atlantic | 61 |
From Blitzkrieg to Total War Germanys War in Europe | 79 |
Global Yet Not Total The U S War Effort and Its Consequences | 99 |
The Home Front in Total War Women in Germany and Britain in the Second World War | 197 |
Women in the Soviet War Effort 19411945 | 223 |
The Spirit of St Louis Mobilizing American Politics and Society 19311945 | 235 |
The War Against Noncombatants | 249 |
Partisan War in Belomssia 19411944 | 251 |
Allied Bombing and the Destruction of German Cities | 267 |
Hiroshima Nagasaki and Total War | 287 |
Criminal War | 305 |
Mobilizing Economies | 125 |
The USSR and Total War Why Didnt the Soviet Economy Collapse in 1942? | 127 |
Blood Sweat and Tears British Mobilization for World War II | 147 |
The Impact of Compulsory Labor on German Society at War | 167 |
Mobilizing Societies | 177 |
Fantasy Reality and Modes of Perception in Ludendorffs and Goebbelss Concepts of Total War | 179 |
Sexual Violence and Its Prosecution by Courts Martial of the Wehrmacht BIRGIT BECK | 307 |
Japans War on China | 323 |
On the Road to Total Retribution? The International Debate on the Punishment of War Crimes 18721945 | 345 |
Total War Some Concluding Reflections | 365 |
Index | 375 |
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