Unknown Conflicts of the Second World War: Forgotten Fronts
is a collection of chapters dealing with various overlooked aspects of the Second World War. The aim is to give greater depth and context to the war by introducing new stories about regions of the world and elements of the war rarely considered.
These chapters represent new discussions on previously undeveloped narratives that help to expand our understanding of the interconnectedness of the war. It also provides an expanded view of the war as a mosaic of overlapping conflicts rather than a two-sided affair between massive alliance structures. The Second World War saw revolutions, civil wars, social upheaval, subversion, and major geopolitical policy shifts that do not fit neatly into the Allied vs. Axis 1939–1945 paradigm. This aim is to connect the unseen dots from around the globe that influenced the big turning points we think we know well but have really only a superficial understanding of and in so doing shed new light on the scope and influence of the war.
Chapter 1: Introduction: forgotten fronts, Chris Murray;
Chapter 2:
Fighting for Britain: examining British recruitment strategies in Nigeria,
Disu Oluyemisi Abayomi and Raheem Oluwafunminiyi;
Chapter 3: The Empire of
Japan and Southern Cone's neutrality after Pearl Harbor, Pedro Iacobelli;
Chapter 4: Finlands relations with the Allied war effort, Henry
Oinas-Kukkonen;
Chapter 5: The illusion of enemy: the fifth column scare in
Britain, Robert Loeffel;
Chapter 6: The Indian Ocean, Oliver Coates;
Chapter
7: Between the Nazi Hammer and the Soviet Anvil: the untold story of the Red
guerrillas in the Baltic Region, 1941-1945, Yaacov Falkov;
Chapter 8:
Indigenous resistance as irregular warfare: the role of Kachin forces in SOE
and OSS covert operations during the Burma campaign, Robert A. Farnan;
Chapter 9: From resistance to revolution: occupied Yugoslavia, Chris Murray;
Chapter 10: Wartime collaborations in rural North China, Lu Xun;
Chapter 11:
"For a New European Order": total war and irregular warfare of the Italian
Social Republic abroad 1943-45, Federico Ciavattone;
Chapter 12: The UN
search for stolen and hidden Polish children (1944-47), Katherine Rossy;
Glossary; Index
Chris Murray serves as Associate Editor of Defence Report. He is currently pursuing his PhD in Defence Studies at Kings College London. Chris holds an MA in War Studies from the Royal Military College of Canada as well as a BA in Anthropology and an HBA in History from Lakehead University.
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