A Companion to World War II, Volume I & II

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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 researchAnalyzes the roles of neutral nations during the warExamines the war from the bottom up through the experiences of different social classesCovers the causes, key battles, and consequences of the warContent: Chapter one How a Second World War happened (pages 11–28): Gerhard L. WeinbergChapter Two The Versailles Peace Settlement and the Collective Security System (pages 29–46): Frederic DessbergChapter Three The Great Depression (pages 47–62): John E. MoserChapter Four Colonialism in Asia (pages 63–76): Christopher D. O'SullivanChapter Five Visionaries of Expansion (pages 77–90): R. J. B. BosworthChapter Six Soviet Planning for War, 1928–June 1941 (pages 91–101): Alexander HillChapter Seven Japanese Early Attack (pages 103–123): Brian P. FarrellChapter Eight War and Empire: The Transformation of Southern Asia (pages 124–140): Gary R. HessChapter Nine CBI: A Historiographical Review (pages 141–153): Dr. Maochun YuChapter Ten The German Assault, 1939–1941 (pages 154–168): Robert M. CitinoChapter Eleven Militaries Compared: Wehrmacht and Red Army, 1941–1945 (pages 169–185): Mark EdeleChapter Twelve The Bombers: The Strategic Bombing of Germany and Japan (pages 186–207): Randall WakelamChapter Thirteen Scandinavian Campaigns (pages 208–221): Olli VehvilainenChapter Fourteen The Naval War in the Mediterranean (pages 222–242): Barbara Brooks TomblinChapter Fifteen Ocean War (pages 243–261): Ashley JacksonChapter Sixteen Maritime War: Combat, Management, and Memory (pages 262–277): Kevin SmithChapter Seventeen The Middle East and World War II (pages 278–295): Simon DavisChapter Eighteen The Western Front, 1944–1945 (pages 296–311): Christopher R. GabelChapter Nineteen Battle Fronts and Home Fronts: The War in the East from Stalingrad to Berlin (pages 312–332): Kenneth SlepyanChapter Twenty German Defeat (pages 333–350): Dr. Neil GregorChapter Twenty?One Southwest Pacific (pages 351–367): Mark RoehrsChapter Twenty?Two The Military Occupations of World War II: A Historiography (pages 368–386): Professor Nicholas Evan SarantakesChapter Twenty?Three Ending the Pacific War: The New History (pages 387–401): Richard B. FrankChapter Twenty?Four Axis Coalition Building (pages 403–414): Richard L. DiNardoChapter Twenty?Five Strategies, Commands, and Tactics, 1939–1941 (pages 415–432): Dr. Talbot C. ImlayChapter Twenty?Six British and American Strategic Planning (pages 433–447): Earl J. CatagnusChapter Twenty?Seven Wartime Conferences (pages 448–461): Mark A. StolerChapter Twenty?Eight The US War against Japan: A Transnational Perspective (pages 462–476): Dr. Akira IriyeChapter Twenty?Nine World War II and Communication Technologies (pages 477–481): James SchwochChapter Thirty Of Spies and Stratagems (pages 482–500): John PradosChapter Thirty?One French African Soldiers in World War II (pages 501–515): Dr. Raffael ScheckChapter 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. BernsteinChapter Thirty?Three Civilians in the Combat Zone: Anglo?American Strategic Bombing (pages 549–567): Sean L. MalloyChapter Thirty?Four European Societies in Wartime (pages 579–602): Isabelle DavionChapter Thirty?Five Life in Plato's Cave: Neutral Europe in World War II (pages 603–617): Neville WylieChapter Thirty?Six Resistance in Eastern Europe (pages 618–637): Dr. Stephan LehnstaedtChapter Thirty?Seven Boomerang Resistance: German Emigres in the US Army during World War II (pages 638–651): Patricia KollanderChapter Thirty?Eight Beyond Impact: Toward a New Historiography of Africa and World War II (pages 652–665): Judith A. ByfieldChapter Thirty?Nine Race, Genocide, and Holocaust (pages 666–684): Jochen BohlerChapter Forty Holocaust and Genocide Today (pages 685–697): Yehuda BauerChapter Forty?One Environmental Dimensions of World War II (pages 698–716): Jacob Darwin HamblinChapter Forty?Two The Women of World War II (pages 717–738): Dr. D'Ann CampbellChapter Forty?Three Transnational Civil Rights during World War II (pages 739–753): Travis J. HardyChapter Forty?Four Global Culture and World War II (pages 754–772): M. Todd BennettChapter Forty?Five The Balkans in the Origins of World War II (pages 773–791): Marietta StankovaChapter Forty?Six Poland's Military in World War II (pages 792–812): Michael Alfred PeszkeChapter Forty?Seven Resistance inside Nazi Germany (pages 813–824): Professor Frank McDonoughChapter Forty?Eight Occupied France: The Vichy Regime, Collaboration, and Resistance (pages 825–840): Julian JacksonChapter Forty?Nine The Italian Campaign (pages 841–858): Elena AgarossiChapter Fifty US Foreign Policy, the Grand Alliance, and the Struggle for Indian Independence during the Pacific War (pages 859–874): Sarah Ellen GrahamChapter Fifty?One “P” was for Plenty (pages 875–892): William H. MillerChapter Fifty?Two Generating American Combat Power in World War II (pages 893–908): Edward G. MillerChapter Fifty?Three American Anti?Semitism during World War II (pages 909–925): Stephen H. NorwoodChapter Fifty?Four War Crimes in Europe (pages 927–944): Dr. Christoph J. M. SafferlingChapter Fifty?Five Anglo?American Postwar Planning (pages 945–961): Charlie WhithamChapter Fifty?Six The Cultural Legacy of World War II in Germany (pages 962–977): Susanne Vees?GulaniChapter Fifty?Seven World War II in Historical Memory (pages 978–998): Marc GallicchioChapter Fifty?Eight The Place of World War II in Global History (pages 999–1012): Gerhard L. Weinberg