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, 1942-
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.
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.
