{"product_id":"the-oxford-handbook-of-world-war-ii-oxford-handbooks-series-9780199341795","title":"The Oxford Handbook of World War II OXFORD","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWorld War II left virtually no nation or corner of the world untouched, dramatically transforming human life and society. It prompted the unprecedented mobilization of whole societies and witnessed a scale of state-sanctioned violence that staggers the imagination, with more than 100 million casualties. The war resulted in an almost complete collapse of any norms geared toward avoiding the unnecessary loss of civilian life and shaped the worldview and psyches of generations. The Oxford Handbook of World War II broadens traditional narratives of the war and in the process changes our understanding of this epic conflict. Organized both chronologically and thematically and with particular attention to the pre- and post-war eras, the Handbook revises and extends existing scholarship. With chapters on the rise and fall of Nazi Germany, the land war in Western Europe, the Battle of Britain, the impact of war on the major combatants (Great Britain, France, the United States, Japan, and China), the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the decision to use the atomic bomb in 1945, and the cultural responses to the war, the chapters span much of the twentieth century. They suggest areas of scholarly consensus, identify interpretative clashes, and propose agendas for further scholarly investigation, with an emphasis on interdisciplinary inquiry. For example, the end of the Cold War had a profound impact on the way World War II was understood. Many formerly closed records in the former Soviet Union and China were opened to scholars, facilitating a more complex view of the Soviet war effort and suggesting that Stalin''s army did not simply triumph by overwhelming German forces with sheer numbers but mastered the demands of a vast and logistically demanding front. In conceptualizing the volume, editors Kurt Piehler and Jonathan Grant also sought out contributions on lesser known aspects of the war, such as the Bengal famine in India, the treatment of prisoners of war, the role of Middle Eastern nations, and the activities of non-governmental organizations in ameliorating suffering. Spanning the rise and fall of the Versailles system to the postwar reintegration of veterans and the eventual commemoration of the conflict and its victims, The Oxford Handbook of World War II marks a landmark contribution to the historical literature of war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributors  Introduction G. Kurt Piehler and Jonathan Grant  Chapter 1: The Collapse of the Versailles System - Michael Creswell  Chapter 2: Ideological Origins of World War II - Vladimir Tismaneanu and Bogdan C. Iacob  Chapter 3: The Spanish Civil War - Peter Garretson and S. P. McVeigh  Chapter 4: The Sino-Japanese War - Gao Bei  Chapter 5: Forging Alliances: The Axis - Ricky W. Law  Chapter 6: German Victories, 1939-1940 - Eugenia C. Kiesling  Chapter 7: The Battle of Britain: Britain and the British Empire Alone - Andrew Stewart   Chapter 8: The Battle of the Atlantic - Marc Milner  Chapter 9: The Axis of the Soviet Union, 1941-1943 - Jonathan Grant  Chapter 10: The Middle East during World War II- Hakan Güngör and Peter Garretso  Chapter 11: Pearl Harbor and Japan Ascendant - Sidney Pash  Chapter 12: The United Nations and the Grand Alliance - David B. Woolner  Chapter 13: The Air War: Germany and Italy - M. Houston Johnson   Chapter 14: North Africa and Italy - Douglas Porch   Chapter 15: Eastern Europe in World War II - Deborah Cornelius and Jonathan A. Grant  Chapter 16: The Eastern Front, 1943-1945 - David Stone   Chapter 17: From D-Day to the Elbe - Peter Mansoor  Chapter 18: The Land War in Asia: China, Burma, and India - Alan Jeffreys  Chapter 19: The Pacific War - Kyle P. Bracken  Chapter 20: The Air War and Conflict Termination in the Pacific - Conrad C. Crane  Chapter 21: Home Fronts at War - Judy Barrett Litoff  Chapter 22: Neutral Powers in a Global War - Neville Wylie  Chapter 23: Western Religious Leaders, Communities, and Organizations before and during the Second World War - Victoria J. Barnett   Chapter 24: Science and Technology - Ronald E. Doel and Kristine C. Harper  Chapter 25: The Environmental Impact - Charles Closmann   Chapter 26: Medicine and Disability - John Kinder  Chapter 27: The Holocaust - Jan Ruth Mills  Chapter 28: The Humanitarian Response - Hillary Sebeny  Chapter 29: Rendering Justice - Michael Bryant and James Sedgwick  Chapter 30: Cultural Responses to Total War - Annika Culver  Chapter 31: Postwar Settlements and Internationalism - Regina Gramer and Yutaka Sasaki  Chapter 32: Reintegrating Veterans and Demobilizing Populations - R. M. Douglas  Chapter 33: The Memory and Commemoration of War - Brian M. 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