Contributor
Black, Jeremy, 1955-
Imprint:Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007.
Description7 v. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Note:v. 1. The German war 1939-1942 -- v. 2. The German war 1943-1945 -- v. 3. The Japanese war 1941-1945 -- v. 4. The home fronts -- v. 5. The Holocaust -- v. 6. Causes and background -- v. 7. Alliance politics and grand strategy.
Note:Vol. 1. The German War 1939-1942: -- The forgotten campaign: Poland's military aviation in September, 1939 / Michael Alfred Peszke -- A reassessment of Anglo-French strategy during the phony war, 1939-1940 / Talbot Charles Imlay -- The winter war in global perspective / Ohto Manninen -- The German invasion of Norway, 1940 / Adam Claasen -- Myth of the Blitzkrieg / Robert A. Doughty -- Myths of the Blitzkrieg: the enduring mythology of the 1940 campaign / James S. Corum -- The Battle of Gembloux, 14-15 May 1940: the Blitzkrieg checked / Jeffery A. Gunsburg -- The Fall of France, 1940 / Martin S. Alexander -- Strategy and scapegoatism: reflections on the French national catastrophe, 1940 / Nicole Jordan -- Colonel Blimp and the British Army: British divisional commanders in the war against Germany, 1939-1945 / David French -- Understanding defeat: reappraising Italy's role in World War II / James J. Sadkovich -- The Italo-Greek War in context: Italian priorities and Axis diplomay / James J. Sadkovich -- Re-evaluating who won the Italo-British naval conflict, 1940-2 / James J. Sadkovich -- Could Admiral Gensoul have averted the tragedy of Mers-el-Kébir? / Philippe Lasterle -- British subversion in French East Africa, 1941-42: SOE's Todd mission / E.D.R. Harrison -- Both sides of the hill: intelligence in the Crete and Arnhem campaigns / Richard Wilkinson -- The Red Army at war, 1941-1945: sources and interpretations / David M. Glantz -- Recent literature on the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union 1941-1945 / Alexander Hill -- Antonescu's Eagles against Stalin's Falcons: the Romanian Air Force, 1920-1941 / Aleander Statiev -- Hitler's quest for oil: the impact of economic considerations on military strategy, 1941-42 / Joel Hayward -- A case study in early joint warfare: an analysis of the Wehrmacht's Crimean campaign of 1942 / Joel Hayward -- Too little, too late: an analysis of Hitler's failure in August 1942 to damage Soviet oil production / Joel Hayward -- The myth of Stalingrad / Jay W. Baird.
Note:Vol. 2. The German War 1943-1945: -- Unexplored questions about the German military during World War II / Gerhard L. Weinberg -- War Lord Hitler: some points reconsidered / M. van Creveld -- 1 October 1942: Adolf Hitler, Wehrmacht officer policy, and social revolution / Macgregor Knox -- Kursk: sixty years on / Karl-Heinz Frieser, Pavel Kulikov, Christopher Bellamy, Geoffrey Vesey Holt, John Hughes-Wilson -- Wehrmacht security regiments in the Soviet Partisan war, 1943 / Ben Shepherd -- The infrastructure of communications intelligence: the Allied D/F network and the Battle of the Atlantic / David Syrett -- The challenge of modernization: the Royal Canadian Navy and antisubmarine weapons, 1944-1945 / William Rawling -- A question of success: tactical air doctrine and practice in North Africa / B. Michael Bechthold -- The desertion crisis in Italy / Anon. -- SOE's achievements: Operation Gunnerside reconsidered / Nigel West -- Combined amphibious docctrine for the Allied invasion of Europe: tactical surprise vs. fire power / Adrian R. Lewis -- D-Day: sixy years on / Jeremy Black -- "Tommy is no soldier" : the morale of the Second British Army in Normany, June-August 1944 / David French -- "The development of an unbeatable combination" : US close air support in Normandy / B. Michael Bechthold -- Best-laid plans: Guy Simonds and Operation Totalize, 7-10 August 1944 / Jody Perrun -- Montgomery, morale, casualty conservation and "colossal cracks": 21st Army Group's operational technique in North-West Europe, 1944-45 / Stephen Hart -- Armageddon: an interview with Sir Max Hastings / Donald A. Yerxa -- Victims of bombing and retaliation / Nicholas Stargardt -- "Ein volk steht auf": the German volkssturm and Nazi strategy, 1944-45 / David K. Yelton -- The ideology of self-destruction: Hitler and the choreography of defeat / Bernd Wegner - Forcible population transfers: a flawed legacy or an unavoidable necessity in protracted ethnic conflicts? the case of the Sudeten Germans / Martin D. Brown -- The crack in the plaster: crisis in Romania and the origins of the Cold War / Alfred J. Rieber -- S.L.A. Marshall and the ratio of fire / Roger J. Spiller -- The role of the Mexican Expeditionary Air Force in World War II: late, limited, but symbolically significant / Stephen I. Schwab.
Note:Vol. 3. The Japanese War 1941-1945: -- Khalkhin-Gol: the forgotten war / Amnon Sella -- Planning for an unpredictable war: British intelligence assessments and the war against Japan, 1937-45 / Douglas Ford -- The evolution of fleet tactical doctrine in the US Navy, 1922-1941 / Trent Hone -- In support of the battle line: gunnery's influence on the development of carrier aviation in the US Navy / Thomas Wildenberg -- Major-General George Grunert, WPO-3 and the Philippine army, 1940-1941 / Richard B. Meixsel -- Army Air Force and Navy Air Force: Japanese aviation and the opening phase of the war in the Far East / A.D. Harvey -- Operation Dovetail: bungled Guadalcanal rehearsal, July 1942 / William H. Bartsch -- Walter Krueger, Douglas MacArthur, and the Pacific War: the Wakde-Sarmi campaign as a case study / Kevin C. Holzimmer -- Japanese defense of Bataan, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 16 December 1944-4 September 1945 / B. David Mann -- No quarter: the Pacific battlefield / Eric Bergerud -- Language at war: US Marine Corps Japanese language officers in the Pacific War / Roger V. Dingman -- Burma memoirs and the reality of war / Stanley L. Falk -- A paper tiger : the Indian National Army in battle, 1944-1945 / Chandar S. Sundaram -- Breaking the cycle of Iwo Jima mythology: a strategic study of Operation Detachment / Robert S. Burrell -- Diary of First Lieutenant Sugihar Kinryu: Iwo Jima, January-February 1945 / Stephen J. Lofgren -- War's end on Okinawa: in search of Captain Robert Fowler / Matthew Stevenson -- Compelling Japan's surrender without the A-bomb, Soviet entry, or invasion: reconsidering the US Bombing Survey's early-surrender conclusions / Barton J. Bernstein -- Shaping the past battlefield, "For the future": the United States Strategic Bombing Survey's evalution of the American air war against Japan / Gian P. Gentile -- Truman and the A-bomb: targeting noncombatants, using the bomb, and his defending the "decision" / Barton J. Bernstein.
Note:Vol. 4. The home fronts: -- Mobilization for total war in Germany, 1939-1941 / R.J. Overy -- Big business in the Third Reich / V.R. Berghahn -- The red flag and the cross: new writing on the German resistance / E.D.R. Harrison -- The role of military administration in German-occupied Belgium, 1940-1944 / Jay Howard Geller -- The Third Reich reflected: German civil administration in the occupied Soviet Union, 1941-4 / Jonathan Steinberg -- Resistance in Albania during the Second World War: partisans, nationalists and the SOE / Bernd J. Fischer -- Resiting French Resistance / H.R. Kedward -- Partisanes and gender politics in Vichy France / Paula Schwartz -- War and social history: Britain and the home front during the Second World War / Jose Harris -- British agricultural archives in the Second World War / John Martin -- The Church of England and the obliteration bombing of Germany in the Second World War / Andrew Chandler -- A Schicksalsgemeinschaft? Allied bombing, civilian morale, and social dissolution in Nuremberg, 1942-1945 / Neil Gregor -- British military information management techniques and the South Asian soldier: Eastern India during the Second World War / Sanjoy Bhattacharya -- Jim Crow and Uncle Sam: the Tuskegee flying units and the US Army air forces in Europe during World War II / William Alexander Percy -- The Detroit race riot of 1943 / H. Sitkoff -- The New York Public Library's map division goes to war, 1941-45 / Alice C. Hudson -- Reading between enemy lines: armed services editions and World War II / Christopher P. Loss -- Wartime San Juan, Puerto Rico: the forgotten American home front, 1941-1945 / Edwin L. Dooley, Jr. -- "The illusion of remembrance": the Karl Diehl affair and the memory of National Socialism in Nuremberg, 1945-1999 / Neil Gregor.
Note:Vol. 5. The Holocaust: -- Ideas, contexts and the pursuit of genocide / Mark Roseman -- From anti-Semitism to extermination / Saul Freidländer -- Fascism, totalitarianism and the Holocaust: reflections on current interpretations of National Socialist anti-Semitism / Meir Michaelis -- The devil in the details: the concentration camp as historical construct / Omer Bartov -- Representing the Holocaust: ideology, ethics, and the theory of multilevel systems / André Mineau -- Before the "final solution" : the Judenpolitik of the SD, 1935-1938 / Michael Wildt -- Nazi ghettoization policy in Poland / Christopher R. Browning -- Nazi resettlement policy and the search for a solution to the Jewish question / Christopher R. Browning -- Nisko: the first experiment in deportation / Jonny Moser -- Germans, Ukrainians and Jews: ethnic politics in Heeresgebiet Süd, June-December 1941 / Truman O. Anderson -- Wehrmacht reprisal policy and the mass murder of Jews in Serbia / Christopher R. Browning -- Two decisions concerning the "final solution to the Jewish question": deportations to Lódz and mass murder in Chelmno / Peter Witte -- A final Hitler decision for the "Final Solution"? The Riegner telegram reconsidered / Christopher R. Browning -- Improvised genocide? The emergence of the "Final Solution" in the "Warthegau" / Ian Kershaw -- The rescue of Jews in the Italian zone of occupied Croatia / Daniel Carpi -- Victims, perpetrators and bystanders in a German town: the Jews of Osnarbrück before, during and after the Third Reich / Panikos Panayi -- Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's "ordinary Germans": a heretic and his critics / Robert E. Herzstein -- The isolation of Daniel Goldhagen: a response to Robert Herzstein / Jeffrey Vanke.
Note:Vol. 6. Causes and background: Concepts of causation in A.J.P. Taylor's account of the origins of the Second World War / W.H. Dray -- The origins of World War II in Europe: British deterrence failure and German expansionism / Jeffrey L. Hughes -- A Thirty Yeas' War? the two world wars in historical perspective / Michael Howard -- Saving the League: V.K. Wellington Koo, the League of Nations and Sino-Japanese conflict, 1931-39 / Stephen G. Craft -- The French Navy and the appeasement of Italy, 1937-9 / Reynolds M. Salerno -- The defence requirements sub-committee, British strategic foreign policy, Neville Chamberlain, and the path to appeasement / Keith Neilson -- England's place in Hitler's plans for world dominion / Andreas Hillgruber -- The alliance that failed: Moscow and the Triple Alliance negotiations, 1939 / Geoffrey Roberts -- Hitler's visit to Rome and the May weekend crisis: a study in Hitler's response to external stimuli / Donald C. Watt -- Blood and iron, and "der Geist des Atlantiks": assessiong Hitler's decision to invade Norway / Adam Claasen -- The origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific: synthesis impossible? / Michael A. Barnhart -- Influence of the United States Navy in the embargo of oil to Japan, 1940-1941 / James H. Herzog -- A careless hope: American air power and Japan, 1941 / Daniel F. Harrington -- Anglo-Australian relations and the origins of the Pacific War / Kosmas Tsokhas -- The Spanish Civil War: lessons learned and not learned by the great powers / James S. Corum -- The clash of Spanish armies: contrasting ways of war in Spain, 1936-1939 / Michael Alpert -- The "European Aldershot" for the Second World War? The battle of the Ebro, 1938 / Matthew Hughes -- Machine dreams: airmindedness and the reinvention of Germany / Peter Fritzsche -- Trenchard and "morale bombing": the evolution of Royal Air Force doctrine before World War II / Phillip S. Meilinger -- From khaki and light blue to purple: the long and troubled development of Army/Air co-operation in Britain, 1914-1945 / David Ian Hall -- Mikhail Tukhachevsky and war-economic planning: reconsiderations on the pre-war Soviet military build-up / Lennart Samuelson.
Note:Vol. 7. Alliance politics and grand strategy: -- German military incompetence through Italian eyes / James J. Sadkovich -- The background to the Syrian campaign, May-June 1941: a study in Franco-German wartime relations / Jafna L. Cox -- Churchill and the American alliance / John Charmley -- Australia, the British Empire and the Second World war / Christopher Water -- The policies of strategy: Great Britain, Australia, and the war against Japan, 1939-1945 / John Gooch -- The "Singapore strategy" and the deterrence of Japan: Winston Churchill, the Admiralty and the dispatch of Force Z / Christopher M. Bell -- War, foreign policy and public opinion: Britain and the Darlan Affair, November-December 1942 /rP.M.H. Bell -- Great Britain: the indirect strategy / Alex Danchev -- The Alanbrooke diaries / Alex Danchev, Daniel Todman -- Censorship, propaganda and public opinion: the case of Katyn Graves, 1943 / P.M.H. Bell -- The British TUC bewtween Germany and Russia: from the outbreak of war to the World Trade Union Conference of February 1945 / Isabelle Tombs -- Ernest King and the British Pacific fleet: the conference at Quebec, 1944 / Michael Coles -- All for each and each for all: reflections on Anglo-American and commonwealth scientific cooperation, 1940-1945 / Roy MacLeod -- Anglo-American policy on German reparations from Yalta to Potsdam / J.E. Farquharson -- The campaign to sell a harsh peace for Germany to the American public, 1944-1948 / Steven Casey -- The Moscow declaration, the Kharkov trial, and the question of a policy on major war criminals in the Second World War / Arieh J. Kochavi -- The trial that never was; why there was no second international trial of major war criminals at Nuremberg / Donald Bloxham -- Problems of neutrality: Swiss diplomatic documents, 1949-1945 / Neville Wylie -- The Vatican and the war in the Far East, 1941-493 / David J. Alvarez.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
