Total war and historical change : Europe, 1914-1955 / edited by Arthur Marwick, Clive Emsley and Wendy Simpson.

Chiefly collections of previously published extracts, articles, etc.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-288) and index.

Total war / Ian F. W. Beckett -- The persistence of the old regime / Arno J. Mayer -- The birth of the modern : 1885-1914 / G. D. Josipovici -- The origins of the war / Samuel R. Williamson, Jr. -- Italian peasant women and the First World War / Anna Bravo -- Demobilization and labour / Richard Bessel -- Recasting bourgeois Europe / Charles Maier -- Hitler's foreign policy / Norman Rich -- Hitler's war and the German economy : a reinterpretation / R. J. Overy -- One day in Józefów : initiation to mass murder / Christopher Browning -- The effects of World War II on French society and politics / Stanley Hoffmann -- The 'levelling of class' / Percy Summerfield -- 'Barbarossa' : the Soviet response, 1941 / Mark Harrison -- World War II and social change in Germany / Mark Roseman -- Total war in the twentieth century / Hew Strachan.