The Routledge History of the Second World War

ISBN-13: 9781032113104 / Angielski

Paul R. Bartrop

Opis

The Routledge History of the Second World War sums up the latest trends in the scholarship of that conflict, covering a range of major themes and issues.The book delivers a thematic analysis of the many ways in which study of the Second World War can take place, considering international, transnational, and global approaches, and serves as a major jumping off point for further research into the specific fields covered by each of the expert authors. It demonstrates the global and total nature of the Second World War, giving due coverage to the conflict in all major theatres and through the lens of the key combatants and neutrals, examines issues of race, gender, ideology, and society during the war, and functions as a textbook to educate students as to the trends that have taken place in how the conflict has been (and can be) interpreted in the modern world. Divided into twelve parts that cover central themes of the conflict, including theatres of war, leadership, societies, occupation, secrecy and legacies, it enables those with no memory of war to approach it with a view to comprehending what it was all about and places the history of this conflict into a context that is international, transnational, and institutional.This is a comprehensive and accessible reference volume for anyone interested in the most up to date scholarship on this major conflict.Chapter 18 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Paul R. Bartrop is Professor Emeritus of History at Florida Gulf Coast University, USA, and Honorary Principal Fellow, University of Melbourne. He is the author, editor, or co-editor of over 25 books relating to the Holocaust, genocide, and the Second World War.