A World at Total War: Global Conflict and the Politics of Destruction, 1937–1945,9780521834322

A World at Total War: Global Conflict and the Politics of Destruction, 1937–1945

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ISBN13: 9780521834322
ISBN10: 0521834325
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2004-12-20
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors ix
Are We There Yet? World War II and the Theory of Total War
Roger Chickering and Stig Förster
1(18)
PART A. THE DIMENSIONS OF WAR
1 Total War: The Global Dimensions of Conflict
Gerhard L. Weinberg
19(14)
2 Total War: The Conduct of War, 1939-1945
Hew Strachan
33(20)
3 The Ultimate Horror: Reflections on Total War and Genocide
Stig Förster and Myriam Gessler
53(18)
PART B. COMBAT
4 Germany and the Battle of the Atlantic
Holger H. Herwig
71(18)
5 From "Blitzkrieg" to "Total War": Germany's War in Europe
Jürgen Förster
89(20)
6 Global Yet Not Total: The U.S. War Effort and Its Consequences
Dennis Showalter
109(28)
PART C. MOBILIZING ECONOMIES
7 The USSR and Total War: Why Didn't the Soviet Economy Collapse in 1942?
Mark Harrison
137(20)
8 Blood, Sweat, and Tears: British Mobilization for World War II
Stephen Broadberry and Peter Howlett
157(20)
9 The Impact of Compulsory Labor on German Society at War
Hans Mommsen
177(12)
PART D. MOBILIZING SOCIETIES
10 Fantasy, Reality, and Modes of Perception in Ludendorffs and Goebbels's Concepts of "Total War"
Martin Kutz
189(18)
11 The Home Front in "Total War": Women in Germany and Britain in the Second World War
Jill Stephenson
207(26)
12 Women in the Soviet War Effort, 1941-1945
John Barber
233(12)
13 The Spirit of St. Louis: Mobilizing American Politics and Society, 1937-1945
Bernd Greiner
245(16)
PART E. THE WAR AGAINST NONCOMBATANTS
14 Partisan War in Belorussia, 1941-1944
Hans-Heinrich Nolte
261(16)
15 Allied Bombing and the Destruction of German Cities
Richard Overy
277(20)
16 "Accidental Judgments, Casual Slaughters": Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Total War
Robert L. Messer
297(20)
PART F. CRIMINAL WAR
17 Sexual Violence and Its Prosecution by Courts Martial of the Wehrmacht
Birgit Beck
317(16)
18 Ideologies of Difference and the Turn to Atrocity: Japan's War on China
Louise Young
333(22)
19 On the Road to Total Retribution? The International Debate on the Punishment of War Crimes, 1872-1945
Daniel Marc Segesser
355(20)
20 Total War: Some Concluding Reflections
Michael Homard
375(10)
Index 385

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