The articles selected for this volume cover a wide range of topics reflecting the fact that the largest recorded war in history and the most intense period of global instability in the twentieth century, was fought by many different states, large and small, over differing periods of time and for many different reasons.
The significant and sustained popular interest in the Second World War is matched by the scale and scope of scholarly engagement in the subject. The articles selected for this volume cover a wide range of topics reflecting the fact that the largest recorded war in history and the most intense period of global instability in the twentieth century, was fought by many different states, large and small, over differing periods of time and for many different reasons. In an area where there is no shortage of material to choose from, the articles presented here are distinguished for their depth of scholarship, stylistic elegance and inter-disciplinary confidence.
Contents: Series preface; Introduction; Repercussions of the Breda
variant, Don W. Alexander; Incident at Baranivka: German reprisals and the
Soviet partisan movement in Ukraine, October-December 1941, Truman Anderson;
The missing years: German workers, German soldiers, Omer Bartov; The Malayan
campaign, 1941-2, in international perspective, Carl Bridge; Reflections on
France, Britain and the winter war prodrome, 1939-40, John C. Cairns;
'Dilly-dally', or having the last word: Field Marshall Sir John Dill and
Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Alex Danchev; Kursk - sixty years on,
Karl-Heinz Frieser, Pavel Kulikov, Christopher Bellamy, Geoffrey Vesey Holt
and John Hughes-Wilson ; Black marks: Hitler's bribery of his senior officers
during World War II, Norman J.W. Goda; The battle of Gembloux, 14-15 May
1940: the 'blitzkrieg' checked, Jeffrey A. Gunsberg; Resource mobilization
for World War II; the USA, UK, USSR, and Germany, 1938-1945, Mark Harrison;
The strategic air offensive against Germany: the early phase, H.W. Koch; Was
World War II a near-run thing?, Alan J. Levine; The treatment of prisoners of
war in World War II, S.P. MacKenzie; Hitler's war and the German economy: a
reinterpretation, R.J. Overy; Understanding defeat: reappraising Italy's role
in World War II, James J. Sadkovich; Partisanes and gender politics in Vichy
France, Paula Schwartz; The Third Reich reflected: German civil
administration in the occupied Soviet Union, 1941-4, Jonathan Steinberg;
Nazism, modern war, and rural Society in Württemberg, 1939-45, Jill
Stephenson; War against sub-humans: comparisons between the German war
against the Soviet Union and the American war against Japan, 1941-45, James
Weingartner; Name Index
Nick Smart University o f Plymouth, UK
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