The Routledge History of the Second World War.
The Routledge History of the Second World War.
- Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2021. ©2022.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Part 1 Outbreaks: War to world war -- 1 Avoiding war? British diplomacy and the outbreak of war in 1939 -- 2 Planning Armageddon: Operation Barbarossa -- 3 The Origins of the War in the Pacific: 1937-1941 -- Part 2 Perspectives: Tradition and change -- 4 Nationalism, identity, and race in the Second World War -- 5 A transnational perspective of women on the home front -- Part 3 Theatres: Fighting the war -- 6 The European war: An overview -- 7 War of great distances: Allied strategy in the Pacific War, 1941-1945 -- 8 The crucial phase of the China theatre: The War of Resistance against Japan, 1937-1938 -- 9 The battle for North Africa -- 10 The war at sea, 1939-1945 -- 11 War in the third dimension: The exercise of air power in the Second World War -- Part 4 Leadership: Directing the war -- 12 Directing the war from triumph to disaster: The German and Italian cases -- 13 Churchill and Roosevelt as war leaders -- 14 Japanese leadership in the Second World War -- 15 Was Stalin necessary? Soviet command in the Great Patriotic War -- Part 5 Societies: Within the combat zone -- 16 Conservatism, radicalism, and global conflict: Britain's War, 1939-1945 -- 17 Germany at war -- 18 Japanese society at war: History and memory -- 19 Italian society during World War II -- 20 Poles under German and Soviet occupations -- 21 France at war: A country divided or a society united? -- 22 Stalin's war or people's war? Total war behind the front lines -- 23 China divided and at war, 1937-1945 -- Part 6 Societies: Beyond the combat zone -- 24 America at war -- 25 Canada: Limited liability and total war -- 26 Australia and the Second World War -- 27 A conscripted society: Sustaining New Zealand's war effort -- 28 South Asia in World War II. 29 Brazil at war: An unexpected, but necessary, ally -- 30 Mexico: In the shadow of World War II -- Part 7 Occupation: Compliance and resistance -- 31 Western Europe under occupation -- 32 Collaboration and resistance in the East: Explaining a contested past -- 33 Armies of collaboration and resistance in Southeast Asia -- Part 8 Surviving: Remaining neutral -- 34 Switzerland as a neutral state during the Second World War -- 35 Sweden: an ambiguous participant -- 36 Not neutral: Spain and the Second World War -- 37 Apolitical arbiter? The Vatican as a neutral during the Second World War -- Part 9 Secrecy: The clandestine war -- 38 Uncovering secrets: Spies, double agents, and codebreakers -- 39 Australasian special operations in the Second World War -- Part 10 Inhumanity: Savagery and mass murder -- 40 Crimes against humanity -- 41 German violations of the Law of War -- 42 The Second World War as a genocidal conflict -- Part 11 Endings: Downfall and victory -- 43 East-Central Europe: From Nazi rule to communism, 1943-1948 -- 44 War and destruction in Western Europe: Picking up the pieces -- 45 Sideshow or Pandora's box? Ending the Pacific War in Southeast Asia, 1945 -- 46 The quest for justice in the aftermath of the war -- Part 12 Legacies: Memory and history -- 47 Remembering and forgetting the war -- 48 The Second World War in global history -- Chronology of the Second World War -- Index.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Part 1 Outbreaks: War to world war -- 1 Avoiding war? British diplomacy and the outbreak of war in 1939 -- 2 Planning Armageddon: Operation Barbarossa -- 3 The Origins of the War in the Pacific: 1937-1941 -- Part 2 Perspectives: Tradition and change -- 4 Nationalism, identity, and race in the Second World War -- 5 A transnational perspective of women on the home front -- Part 3 Theatres: Fighting the war -- 6 The European war: An overview -- 7 War of great distances: Allied strategy in the Pacific War, 1941-1945 -- 8 The crucial phase of the China theatre: The War of Resistance against Japan, 1937-1938 -- 9 The battle for North Africa -- 10 The war at sea, 1939-1945 -- 11 War in the third dimension: The exercise of air power in the Second World War -- Part 4 Leadership: Directing the war -- 12 Directing the war from triumph to disaster: The German and Italian cases -- 13 Churchill and Roosevelt as war leaders -- 14 Japanese leadership in the Second World War -- 15 Was Stalin necessary? Soviet command in the Great Patriotic War -- Part 5 Societies: Within the combat zone -- 16 Conservatism, radicalism, and global conflict: Britain's War, 1939-1945 -- 17 Germany at war -- 18 Japanese society at war: History and memory -- 19 Italian society during World War II -- 20 Poles under German and Soviet occupations -- 21 France at war: A country divided or a society united? -- 22 Stalin's war or people's war? Total war behind the front lines -- 23 China divided and at war, 1937-1945 -- Part 6 Societies: Beyond the combat zone -- 24 America at war -- 25 Canada: Limited liability and total war -- 26 Australia and the Second World War -- 27 A conscripted society: Sustaining New Zealand's war effort -- 28 South Asia in World War II. 29 Brazil at war: An unexpected, but necessary, ally -- 30 Mexico: In the shadow of World War II -- Part 7 Occupation: Compliance and resistance -- 31 Western Europe under occupation -- 32 Collaboration and resistance in the East: Explaining a contested past -- 33 Armies of collaboration and resistance in Southeast Asia -- Part 8 Surviving: Remaining neutral -- 34 Switzerland as a neutral state during the Second World War -- 35 Sweden: an ambiguous participant -- 36 Not neutral: Spain and the Second World War -- 37 Apolitical arbiter? The Vatican as a neutral during the Second World War -- Part 9 Secrecy: The clandestine war -- 38 Uncovering secrets: Spies, double agents, and codebreakers -- 39 Australasian special operations in the Second World War -- Part 10 Inhumanity: Savagery and mass murder -- 40 Crimes against humanity -- 41 German violations of the Law of War -- 42 The Second World War as a genocidal conflict -- Part 11 Endings: Downfall and victory -- 43 East-Central Europe: From Nazi rule to communism, 1943-1948 -- 44 War and destruction in Western Europe: Picking up the pieces -- 45 Sideshow or Pandora's box? Ending the Pacific War in Southeast Asia, 1945 -- 46 The quest for justice in the aftermath of the war -- Part 12 Legacies: Memory and history -- 47 Remembering and forgetting the war -- 48 The Second World War in global history -- Chronology of the Second World War -- Index.
9780429848483
Weltkrieg <1939-1945>
Fernzugriff