Physical Description
x, 392 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Contents
Are we there yet? World War II and the theory of total war / Roger Chickering and Stig Förster
Total war : the global dimensions of conflict / Gerhard L. Weinberg
Total war : the conduct of war, 1939-1945 / Hew Strachan
The ultimate horror : reflections on total war and genocide / Stig Förster and Myriam Gessler
Germany and the battle of the Atlantic / Holger H. Herwig
From "Blitzkrieg" to "total war" : Germany's war in Europe / Jürgen Förster
Global yet not total : the U.S. war effort and its consequences / Dennis Showalter
The USSR and total war : why didn't the Soviet economy collapse in 1942? / Mark Harrison
Blood, sweat, and tears : British mobilization for World War II / Stephen Broadberry and Peter Howlett
The impact of compulsory labor on German society at war / Hans Mommsen
Fantasy, reality, and modes of perception in Ludendorff's and Goebbel's concepts of "total war" / Martin Kutz
The home front in "total war" : women in Germany and Britain in the Second World War / Jill Stephenson
Women in the Soviet war effort, 1941-1945 / John Barber
The Spirit of St. Louis : mobilizing American politics and society, 1937-1945 / Bernd Greiner
Partisan war in Belorussia, 1941-1944 / Hans-Heinrich Nolte
Allied bombing and the destruction of German cities / Richard Overy
"Accidental judgments, casual slaughters" : Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and total war / Robert L. Messer
Sexual violence and its prosecution by courts martial of the Wehrmacht / Birgit Beck
Ideologies of difference and the turn to atrocity : Japan's war on China / Louise Young
On the road to total retribution? The international debate on the punishment of war crimes, 1872-1945 / Daniel Marc Segesser
Total war : some concluding reflections / Michael Howard.
Other Authors/Editors
Chickering, Roger,
Förster, Stig.
Greiner, Bernd.
German Historical Institute (Washington, D.C.)
ISBN
0521834325
Notes
Results of a fifth conference on the history total war held in Aug. 2001, in Hamburg.
Includes bibliographical references and index.