A companion to World War II / edited by Thomas W. Zeiler, with Daniel M. DuBois.

Notes on (Contributors
Introduction
Contents
VOLUME I
1
Part I Roo rs of War 11
1 How a Second World War Happened [3
Gcrhnrri L. WciubcTjj
2 The Versailles Peace Settlement and the (Collective Securit\' Svstem 29
Frcdcric Dcssbcrji
3 The CJreat Depression
]ohu E. Moscr
4 (Colonialism in Asia
Christopher D. O'Stillivnti
5 Visionaries ot'Kxpansion jj
R. }. ]i. Bosworth
6 Sox iet Planning tor War, 1928-June 1941 g,
A/rxnnHi r Hill
Part II Fightinc; thk War
7 Japanese Karly Anaci^
Briiut P. FniTi'U
103
105
XVVar and Hmpire: I'he rranst'ormation ofSouthern Asii 124
(inrv R. Has
y\ CONTI-SIS
9 CIBI: A Historiographical Rc\iow
Mnochtni Tii
10 The German Assault, 1939-1941
Robcrr M. C.itiiio
11 Militaries Compared: Wiijniiachr .vu\ Red Army. 1941-1945
Mark Edclc
12 The Bombers: The Strategie Bombing ofCierniany and Japan
Randall Wakclnni
13 Scandinavian Champaigns
Olli Vcbviliiincu
14 The Naval War in the Mediterranean
Baybnrn Brooks Tomblin
15 Ocean War
Ashley Jackson
16 Maritime War: ("ombat. Management, and Memory
Kevin Smith
17 The Middle Kasr and World War 11
Si]non Davis
18 The Western Front, 1944-1945
Christopher R. Gahel
19 Battle Fronts and Home Fronts: The War in the Hast from
Stalingrad to Berlin
Kenneth Slepmn
20 Cicrman Defeat
Neil (irejjor
21 Southwest Pacific
Mark Roehrs
22 The Military Occupations of World War II: AHistoriographv
Nicholas Evan Sarantnkcs
23 Hnding the PaciHc War: The New Hisrorv
Richard H. frank
Part III Multinationai. and Transnational
Zones of Combat: Stratkgv
24 Axis (Coalition Building
Richard I.. DiNardo
25 Strategies, (..mmands, and lactics 19^9-UMi
TalbotC. hnla\ '
CONTKNIS vii
26 British and American Strategic Planning 433
Enrl ]. (MtnjjiiiiSy Jr.
27 Wartime Cx)nt"erences 448
Mark A. Staler
28 The US War Against Japan: A Transnational Perspccti\'c 462
Akira Iriyc
29 World War II and C'omnninication lechnologies 477
James Schwoch
30 OfSpies and Stratagems 482
John Prndos
31 French African Soldiers in World War II 501
Rnffacl Schcck
32 Scientists and Nuclear Weapons in World War II: The Background,
the Experience, and the Sometimes Contested Meanings and Analyses 516
Bnrtoji J. Bernstein
33 C;:i\ilians in the Combat Zone: Anglo-American
Strategic Bombing 549
Sean L. Mallov
VOLUME II
Notes on C:onrributors x
Introduction 569
Part IV Multinational and Transnational
Zones of Combat: Society
34 European Societies in Wartime
Isnbelle Dnriou
35 Life in Plato's Cave: Neutral Europe in World War II
Neville Wylie
36 Resistance in Eastern Europe
Stepirnn Lehnstaedt
37 Boomerang Resistance: German Emigres in the US Armv durintr
World War II
Patricia Kollauder
603
618
Mil (ONTINIS
38 Hcyond Impact: Toward a New Historiou,raphv of Africa
and World War II
Judith A. Byftcld
39 Racc, Gcnocidc, and Holocaust
Jochcn liiihlcr
40 Holocaust and CJcnocidc Todav
Tchiida liniicr
41 Hnvironmcntal Dimensions of World War II
Jacob Dnnvin Hnuiblin
42 The Women ofWorld War II
lyAun Campbell
43 Transnational Civil Rights during World War II
'I'ravis J. Hnrdv
44 Global (kilture and World War II
M. Todd Ikiinctt
Part V Homelands
652
666
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717
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773 45 The Balkans in the Origins of World War II 77-
Marictta Stmikova ^
46 Poland's Military in World War II
Miclmcl Alfred Peszlce
47 Resistance inside N'a/i Cierniany
FrankAIcDouotijjh
48 Occupicd HraiK-c: The \'id,y kctiinK-, C:„ll.,h„r,,ti,m,
and Resistance
Jitliau Jaekson
49 1he Italian Champaign
Elena Ajjarossi
50 US H„rcis„ Policy, tiK- (.ii-aiKl Alliancc, and the Stniwk-
01 Indian Independence during the Pacific War o-g
Sarah hlicn (Graham
51 "P" Was for Plentv
William H. Miller «75
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813
CONIKNTS
Part VI ArrERAiATH and Consequences 927
54 War (brinies in Kiiropc 929
Christoph J. M. Snffa-lijijj
55 Anglo-Amcrican Postwar Planning 941^
Charlie Whithatu
56 The Cultural Legac\' of World War II in Germany 962
SiisaJiuc Vccs-Gtilnni
57 World War II in Historical Memors' 97g
jVInrc Cinllicchio
58 The Place ofWorld War II in Global History 999
Gerhard L. Weinherrf
Index 1013