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Book SynopsisSome 60 million people died during the Second World War; millions more were displaced in Europe, Africa, and Asia. The war resulted in the creation of new states, the acceleration of imperial decline, and a shift in the distribution of global power. Despite its unprecedented impact, a comprehensive account of the complex international experiences of this war remains elusive.
The Peoples' War? offers fresh approaches to the challenge of writing a new history of the Second World War. Exploring aspects of the war that have been marginalized in military and political studies, the volume foregrounds less familiar narratives, subjects, and places. Chapters recover the wartime experiences of individuals including women, children, members of minority ethnic groups, and colonial subjects whose stories do not fit easily into conventional national war narratives. The contributors show how terms used to delineate the conflict such as home front and battle front, occupier and occu
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"Each chapter provides a contribution to an understanding of the war beyond long dominant narratives. Moreover, this collection seeks to propel further research into the impact of the war from the same societal-political level of examination that it employs. The Peoples’ War? is intentionally posed as a question, in part, to stimulate additional questions itself and, at this essential function of scholarship, it delivers." *Journal of Military *
