A Companion to World War II, Volume I & II

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ISBN (شابک) : 9781405196819, 9781118325018 
ناشر: Wiley-Blackwell 
سال نشر: 2012 
تعداد صفحات: 1026 
زبان: English 
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A Companion to World War II brings together a series of fresh academic perspectives on World War II, exploring the many cultural, social, and political contexts of the war. Essay topics range from American anti-Semitism to the experiences of French-African soldiers, providing nearly 60 new contributions to the genre arranged across two comprehensive volumes. 

• A collection of original historiographic essays that include cutting-edge research
• Analyzes the roles of neutral nations during the war
• Examines the war from the bottom up through the experiences of different social classes
• Covers the causes, key battles, and consequences of the war

Content:
Chapter one How a Second World War happened (pages 11–28): Gerhard L. Weinberg
Chapter Two The Versailles Peace Settlement and the Collective Security System (pages 29–46): Frederic Dessberg
Chapter Three The Great Depression (pages 47–62): John E. Moser
Chapter Four Colonialism in Asia (pages 63–76): Christopher D. O'Sullivan
Chapter Five Visionaries of Expansion (pages 77–90): R. J. B. Bosworth
Chapter Six Soviet Planning for War, 1928–June 1941 (pages 91–101): Alexander Hill
Chapter Seven Japanese Early Attack (pages 103–123): Brian P. Farrell
Chapter Eight War and Empire: The Transformation of Southern Asia (pages 124–140): Gary R. Hess
Chapter Nine CBI: A Historiographical Review (pages 141–153): Dr. Maochun Yu
Chapter Ten The German Assault, 1939–1941 (pages 154–168): Robert M. Citino
Chapter Eleven Militaries Compared: Wehrmacht and Red Army, 1941–1945 (pages 169–185): Mark Edele
Chapter Twelve The Bombers: The Strategic Bombing of Germany and Japan (pages 186–207): Randall Wakelam
Chapter Thirteen Scandinavian Campaigns (pages 208–221): Olli Vehvilainen
Chapter Fourteen The Naval War in the Mediterranean (pages 222–242): Barbara Brooks Tomblin
Chapter Fifteen Ocean War (pages 243–261): Ashley Jackson
Chapter Sixteen Maritime War: Combat, Management, and Memory (pages 262–277): Kevin Smith
Chapter Seventeen The Middle East and World War II (pages 278–295): Simon Davis
Chapter Eighteen The Western Front, 1944–1945 (pages 296–311): Christopher R. Gabel
Chapter Nineteen Battle Fronts and Home Fronts: The War in the East from Stalingrad to Berlin (pages 312–332): Kenneth Slepyan
Chapter Twenty German Defeat (pages 333–350): Dr. Neil Gregor
Chapter Twenty?One Southwest Pacific (pages 351–367): Mark Roehrs
Chapter Twenty?Two The Military Occupations of World War II: A Historiography (pages 368–386): Professor Nicholas Evan Sarantakes
Chapter Twenty?Three Ending the Pacific War: The New History (pages 387–401): Richard B. Frank
Chapter Twenty?Four Axis Coalition Building (pages 403–414): Richard L. DiNardo
Chapter Twenty?Five Strategies, Commands, and Tactics, 1939–1941 (pages 415–432): Dr. Talbot C. Imlay
Chapter Twenty?Six British and American Strategic Planning (pages 433–447): Earl J. Catagnus
Chapter Twenty?Seven Wartime Conferences (pages 448–461): Mark A. Stoler
Chapter Twenty?Eight The US War against Japan: A Transnational Perspective (pages 462–476): Dr. Akira Iriye
Chapter Twenty?Nine World War II and Communication Technologies (pages 477–481): James Schwoch
Chapter Thirty Of Spies and Stratagems (pages 482–500): John Prados
Chapter Thirty?One French African Soldiers in World War II (pages 501–515): Dr. Raffael Scheck
Chapter Thirty?Two Scientists and Nuclear Weapons in World War II: The Background, the Experience, and the Sometimes Contested Meanings and Analyses (pages 516–548): Barton J. Bernstein
Chapter Thirty?Three Civilians in the Combat Zone: Anglo?American Strategic Bombing (pages 549–567): Sean L. Malloy
Chapter Thirty?Four European Societies in Wartime (pages 579–602): Isabelle Davion
Chapter Thirty?Five Life in Plato's Cave: Neutral Europe in World War II (pages 603–617): Neville Wylie
Chapter Thirty?Six Resistance in Eastern Europe (pages 618–637): Dr. Stephan Lehnstaedt
Chapter Thirty?Seven Boomerang Resistance: German Emigres in the US Army during World War II (pages 638–651): Patricia Kollander
Chapter Thirty?Eight Beyond Impact: Toward a New Historiography of Africa and World War II (pages 652–665): Judith A. Byfield
Chapter Thirty?Nine Race, Genocide, and Holocaust (pages 666–684): Jochen Bohler
Chapter Forty Holocaust and Genocide Today (pages 685–697): Yehuda Bauer
Chapter Forty?One Environmental Dimensions of World War II (pages 698–716): Jacob Darwin Hamblin
Chapter Forty?Two The Women of World War II (pages 717–738): Dr. D'Ann Campbell
Chapter Forty?Three Transnational Civil Rights during World War II (pages 739–753): Travis J. Hardy
Chapter Forty?Four Global Culture and World War II (pages 754–772): M. Todd Bennett
Chapter Forty?Five The Balkans in the Origins of World War II (pages 773–791): Marietta Stankova
Chapter Forty?Six Poland's Military in World War II (pages 792–812): Michael Alfred Peszke
Chapter Forty?Seven Resistance inside Nazi Germany (pages 813–824): Professor Frank McDonough
Chapter Forty?Eight Occupied France: The Vichy Regime, Collaboration, and Resistance (pages 825–840): Julian Jackson
Chapter Forty?Nine The Italian Campaign (pages 841–858): Elena Agarossi
Chapter Fifty US Foreign Policy, the Grand Alliance, and the Struggle for Indian Independence during the Pacific War (pages 859–874): Sarah Ellen Graham
Chapter Fifty?One “P” was for Plenty (pages 875–892): William H. Miller
Chapter Fifty?Two Generating American Combat Power in World War II (pages 893–908): Edward G. Miller
Chapter Fifty?Three American Anti?Semitism during World War II (pages 909–925): Stephen H. Norwood
Chapter Fifty?Four War Crimes in Europe (pages 927–944): Dr. Christoph J. M. Safferling
Chapter Fifty?Five Anglo?American Postwar Planning (pages 945–961): Charlie Whitham
Chapter Fifty?Six The Cultural Legacy of World War II in Germany (pages 962–977): Susanne Vees?Gulani
Chapter Fifty?Seven World War II in Historical Memory (pages 978–998): Marc Gallicchio
Chapter Fifty?Eight The Place of World War II in Global History (pages 999–1012): Gerhard L. Weinberg