Book Details
Format
eBook
Pages
392
Language
English
Published
Mar 20, 2006
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
1280163453
ISBN-13
9781280163456
Description
This volume presents the results of a fifth and final conference on the history of total war. It is devoted to the Second World War, which many scholars regard as the paradigmatic instance of total war. In considering the validity of this proposition, the authors address a broad range of analytical problems that this vast conflict posed in the arenas of Europe and Asia. They analyze modes of combat, war aims, the mobilization of economies and societies, occupation regimes, the vulnerability of noncombatants, and the legal and moral issues raised by the industrialized warfare of the mid-twentieth century. The volume will be of interest to all students of war and society in the modern era.
Genres
Action & Adventure
History