The Great World War, 1914-45 / edited by Peter Liddle, John Bourne, Ian Whitehead.

Contributor Liddle, Peter.

Imprint:London : HarperCollins, 2000-

Descriptionv. <1-2> : illus. ; 24 cm.

Note:v. 1. Lightning strikes twice -- v. 2: The peoples' experience

Note:v.1: PART I: THE FRONT LINE EXPERIENCE: -- 1. A personal reflection on the two world wars / J.M. Bourne -- 2. Preparing for war: the experience of the Cameronians / John Baynes, Cliff Pettit -- 3. Waging the undersea war: a British perspective / Jeff Tall -- 4. The merchant seaman at war / Tony Lnae -- 5. War in the air: the fighter pilot / David Jordan -- 6. War in the air: the bomber crew / Christina Goulter -- 7. The desert war experience / Niall Barr -- 8. War in the tropics: East Africa and Burma / Phillip Parotti -- 10. Hitting the beach: the amphibious experience / Geoffrey Till -- 11. British Special Forces behind the enemy lines / Julian Thompson -- 12. Partisans and guerrillas / Malcolm Mackintosh -- 13. The experience of being abroad: doughboys and GIs in Europe / James J. Cooke -- 14. German soldiers in victory, 1914 and 1940 / Benjamin Ziemann, Klaus Latzel -- 15. The experience of defeat: Kut (1916) and Singapore (1942) / Robin Neillands -- 16. The experience of killing / Joanna Bourke -- 17. The experience of captivity: British and Commonwealth prisoners in Germany / Peter H. Liddell, S.P. McKenzie -- 18. Casualties and British medical services / Nick Bosnquet, Ian Whitehead -- 19. Spies, codebreakers and secret agents / M.R.D. Foot -- PART II: THE EXPERIENCE OF LEADERSHIP: -- 20. Monarchy in wartime: King George V and King George VI / Hugo Vickers -- 21. Political leaders in wartime: Lloyd George and Churchill / George H. Cassar -- 22. Erich Ludendorff and Tôjô Hideki: some comparisons / Peter Wetzler -- 23. Foch and Eisenhower: supreme commanders / Frank E. Vandiver -- 24. General Brusilov and Marshal Zhukov, June 1916 and June 1944 / John Erickson -- 25. Reflections on the experience of British generalship / G.D. Sheffield -- 26. Coalition war: the Anglo-American experience / Dennis E. Showalter -- 27. Coalition war: Britain and France / William Philpott -- 28. Coalition war: Germany and her allies, Austria-Hungary and Italy / Gary W. Shanafelt, G.T. Waddington -- PART III: THE EXPERIENCE OF OCCUPATION: -- 29. The experience of occupation: Belgium / Mark Derez -- 30. The experience of occupation: Northern France / Margaret Atack -- 31. The experience of occupation: Poland / Anita J. Prazmowska -- 32. The experience of displacement: refugees and war / Guy S. Goodwin-Gill -- 33. The experience of genocide: Armenia 1915-16 and Romania 1941-42 / Mark Levene

Note:v.2: PART I: THE PEOPLES' EXPERIENCE: -- 1. British children in wartime / Eric Hopkins -- 2. The British experience of bombing / Adam Smith -- 3. The experience of manipulation: propaganda in press and radio / Stephen Badsey, Philip M. Taylor -- 4. The home front in Germany / Heinz Hagenlücke -- 5. "Frauen und Frab": German women in wartime / Ingrid Sharp -- 6. The impact of war on Russian society / Sergei Kudryashov -- 7. Italy: extreme crisis, resistance and recovery / Marco Pluviano, Irene Guerrine -- 8. The Western Balkans / Peter Caddick-Adams -- 9. The experience of middle-class Japanese women / Naoko Shimazu -- 10. America / James J. Cooke -- 11. China / Diana Lary -- 12. Colonial India: conflict, shortage and discontent / Sanjoy Bhattacharya -- 13. Australia / Joan Beaumont -- 14. New Zealand: "from the uttermost ends of the earth" / Christopher Pugsley -- 15. Canada: fact and fancy / Dean F. Oliver -- 16. South Africa / Bill Nasson -- 17. Black men in white men's wars / Bernard Waites -- 18. The French empire / Philip Dine -- 19. The Arab world / Tarif Khalidi -- 20. The Netherlands and Sweden: the experience of neutrality / Bob Moore, Susanne Wolf, Paul M. Binding -- PART II: THE CULTURAL EXPERIENCE: -- 21. "A war of the imagination": the experience of the British artist / Paul Gough -- 22. British fiction / Hugh Cecil -- 23. Classical music / Donald Webster -- 24. Leisure and entertainment / Matthew Taylor -- PART III. THE MORAL EXPERIENCE: -- 25. Keeping faith and coping: belief, popular religiosity and the British people / Michael F. Snape, Stephen G. Parker -- 26. Ethics and weaponry / Edward M. Spiers -- 27. The opposition to war / Martin Caedel -- PART IV. REFLECTIONS: -- 28. Reflections on total war in the 20th century / Imanuel Geiss -- 29. Apprehending memory: material culture and war, 1919-39 / Nicholas Saunders -- 30. The obligation of remembrance or the remembrance of obligation: society and the memory of World War / Bob Bushaway -- 31. Bibliographic sources for the study of the two World Wars / Peter T. Scott.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

Note:"The aim throughout is to demonstrate the diversity of personal experience in the two world wars. [Volume one] examines uniformed service and such aspects of civilian experience as occupation, displacement and genocide. It discusses the exercise of political and military leadership and details the difficulties of prosecuting coalition warfare. [Volume two] deals with the national experiences of both belligerent and neutral states and considers the role of civilians in war. There are also sections dealing with moral and cultural issues. The comparative approach that underpins the book reveals striking parallels between the two global conflicts of the 20th century. It is clear that in many respects lightning did strike twice.... There were, however, important differences, none more significant than the ideological basis of the struggle between Nazi Germany and her opponents. The First World War was, in part at least, the product of ancient Balkan savageries and the fate of the Armenians gave warning of the human capacity for organised atrocity on the scale of genocide, a word not yet then coined. But a new register is required to measure the consequences of ideological warfare in the Second World War. German and Japanese conduct of the Second World War was driven by racism and political dogma. This and the response it provoked . . . ensured that the Second World War extended the frontiers of human degradation and misery well beyond the boundaries 'achieved' in the earlier struggle." -- Editors' introduction

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