 Название: The Oxford Handbook of World War II
Автор: G. Kurt Piehler, Jonathan Grant
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2023
Страниц: 721
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 14.4 MB
World War II left virtually no nation or corner of the world untouched, dramatically transforming human life and society. It prompted the unprecedented mobilization of whole societies and witnessed a scale of state-sanctioned violence that staggers the imagination, with more than 100 million casualties. The war resulted in an almost complete collapse of any norms geared toward avoiding the unnecessary loss of civilian life and shaped the worldview and psyches of generations. The Oxford Handbook of World War II broadens traditional narratives of the war and in the process changes our understanding of this epic conflict.
Organized both chronologically and thematically and with particular attention to the pre- and post-war eras, the Handbook revises and extends existing scholarship. With chapters on the rise and fall of Nazi Germany, the land war in Western Europe, the Battle of Britain, the impact of war on the major combatants (Great Britain, France, the United States, Japan, and China), the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the decision to use the atomic bomb in 1945, and the cultural responses to the war, the chapters span much of the twentieth century. They suggest areas of scholarly consensus, identify interpretative clashes, and propose agendas for further scholarly investigation, with an emphasis on interdisciplinary inquiry. For example, the end of the Cold War had a profound impact on the way World War II was understood. Many formerly closed records in the former Soviet Union and China were opened to scholars, facilitating a more complex view of the Soviet war effort and suggesting that Stalin's army did not simply triumph by overwhelming German forces with sheer numbers but mastered the demands of a vast and logistically demanding front.
In conceptualizing the volume, editors Kurt Piehler and Jonathan Grant also sought out contributions on lesser known aspects of the war, such as the Bengal famine in India, the treatment of prisoners of war, the role of Middle Eastern nations, and the activities of non-governmental organizations in ameliorating suffering. Spanning the rise and fall of the Versailles system to the postwar reintegration of veterans and the eventual commemoration of the conflict and its victims, The Oxford Handbook of World War II marks a landmark contribution to the historical literature of war.
Contents:
Introduction: Freed from the Shadows of the Cold War: A Global War Reconsidered
1. The Collapse of the Versailles System
2. Ideological Origins of World War II
3. Ethiopia and the Spanish Civil War before and during World War II
4. The Sino–Japanese War
5. Forging Alliances: The Axis
6. German Victories, 1939–1940
7. The Battle of Britain: Britain and the British Empire Alone
8. The Battle of the Atlantic, 1939–1945
9. The Axis Invasion of the Soviet Union, 1941–1943
10. The Middle East during World War II
11. Pearl Harbor and Japan Ascendant
12. The United Nations and the Grand Alliance
13. The Air War: Germany and Italy
14. North Africa and Italy
15. Eastern Europe in World War II
16. The Eastern Front, 1943–1945
17. From D-Day to the Elbe
18. The Land War in Asia: China, Burma, and India
19. The Pacific War
20. The Air War and Conflict Termination in the Pacific
21. Home Fronts at War
22. Neutral Powers in a Global War
23. Western Religious Leaders, Communities, and Organizations before and during World War II
24. Science and Technology
25. The Environmental Impact
26. Medicine and Disability
27. The Holocaust
28. The Humanitarian Impulse
29. Rendering Justice
30. Cultural Responses to Total War, 1930s–1945
31. Postwar Settlements and Internationalism
32. Reintegrating Veterans and Demobilizing Populations
33. The Memory and Commemoration of War
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