European Home Fronts 1939 - 1945

Name: European Home Fronts 1939 - 1945
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ISBN: 9780882959061

ISBN-10: 0882959069

ISBN-13: 9780882959061

Edition: 1993

Authors: Earl R. Beck, Keith Eubank

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In a book arranged in chapters which deal separately with the Home Fronts of each country, Beck is able to provide a comprehensive picture of the effects of the world's only 'total war' upon the civilians who often faced bewilderment, fear, death, and destruction all around them. Beck considers the effects of bombing and sometimes actual fighting in the streets and towns in which people lived, and the policies of individual governments that attempted to encourage and retain support for the war effort in varying ways.

Book details

List price: $23.95
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/15/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 178
Size: 5.40" wide x 8.50" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.462
Language: English

Earl R. Beck is Professor of History at Florida State University, Tallahassee.



Foreword


Introduction



Great Britain: The Islands Fortress


The Appeasement Era


Churchill Becomes Britain’s War Leader


The Battle of Britain


Other British Cities Attacked


The First American Moves Toward Alliance


The Days of Austerity


American Troops in Britain


Preparations for the Invasion of the Continent



The Soviet Union


Rapidity of German Conquests


Stalin’s “Patriotic War”


The Years of Defeat: 1941-1942


The Role of Allied Aid


Fall 1942: The Tide Begins to Turn



France: Under The German Heel


Political and Economic Chaos


Military Incompetence and Disastrous Defeat


The Nature of the Vichy Regime


The German Occupation


Hostages and Forced Labor


The Great Misery of Paris


The Resistance


De Gaulle’s Move to Leadership


The Reminder of France Occupied


The Fighting French



The Axis Powers: Germany and Italy


German Military Spirit


Did the German Public Want War?


Problems with the Churches


The Invasion of Russia


Domestic Shortages


Bad News from the Battle Fronts


Firestorms in Hamburg


The Final Solution


Horrors of the Last Days


The Italians at War


Declining Popular Support for Mussolini


Military Blunders and Defeats


The Fall of Mussolini


The Neo-Fascist Regime


The Allied Campaign in Italy



Poland and the Holocaust


The Destruction of Poland


Governments in Exile


The Final Solution in Poland


The Warsaw Uprising



Other Home Fronts


Presumed Aryan States: The Low Countries and Scandinavia


The Fate of Czechoslovakia


Fire in the Balkans


Postscript


Bibliographical Essay


Index