The Second World War
Published on 20. November 2006
Book
Hardback
580 pages
978-0-7546-2591-9 (ISBN)
Description
The significant and sustained popular interest in the Second World War is matched by the scale and scope of scholarly engagement in the subject. The articles selected for this volume cover a wide range of topics reflecting the fact that the largest recorded war in history and the most intense period of global instability in the twentieth century, was fought by many different states, large and small, over differing periods of time and for many different reasons. In an area where there is no shortage of material to choose from, the articles presented here are distinguished for their depth of scholarship, stylistic elegance and inter-disciplinary confidence.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations, maps
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 169 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7546-2591-9 (9780754625919)
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Person
Nick Smart is Senior Lecturer at the Department of History, University of Plymouth, UK, and has been writing on a number of Second World War related themes for some years.
Content
Introduction; Repercussions of the Breda Variant; D. Alexander, Incident at Baranivka: German reprisals and the Soviet partisan movement in Ukraine; T. Anderson, The missing years: German workers, German soldiers; O. Bartov, The Malayan campaign, 1941-2, in international perspective; C. Bridge, Reflections on France, Britain and the winter war prodrome, 1939-40; John C. Cairns, 'Dilly-Dally', or having the last word: Field Marshal Sir John Dill and Prime Minister Winston Churchill; A. Danchev, Kursk-sixty years on; Karl-Heinz Frieser et al; Black marks: Hitler's bribery of his senior officers during World War II; N. Goda, The Battle of Gembloux, 14-15 may 1940: The 'Blitzkrieg' checked; Jeffrey A. Gunsburg, Resource mobilization for World War II: the U.S.A., U.K., U.S.S.R., and Germay, 1938-1945; M. Harrison, The strategic air offensive against Germany: the early phase; H. W. Koch, Was World War II a near-run thing?; Alan J. Levine, The treatment of prisoners of War in World War II; S.P. Mackenzie, Crossing the Rubicon: Soviet plans for offensive war in 1940-1941; E. Mawdsley, Hitler's war and the German economy: a reinterpretation; R. J. Overy, Understanding defeat: reappraising Italy's role in World War II; James K. Sadkovich, Partisans and gender politics in Vichy France; Paula Schwartz, The Third Reich reflected: German civil administration in the occupied Soviet Union, 1941-4; J. Steinberg, Nazism, modern war and rural society in Wurttemberg, 1939-45; Jill Stephenson, War against subhumans: comparisons between the German war against the Soviet Union and the American War against Japan, 1941-45; J. Weingartner; Index.