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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Note on Sources | |
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| Maps | |
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| Introduction - War and Food | |
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| Food - An Engine of War | |
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| Germany's Quest for Empire | |
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| From wheat to meat | |
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| Defeat, hunger and the legacy of the First World War | |
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| Autarky and Lebensraum | |
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| Herbert Backe and the Hunger Plan | |
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| Genocide in the east | |
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| Japan's Quest for Empire | |
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| A radical answer to rural crisis | |
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| One million households in Manchuria | |
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| From Nanjing to Pearl Harbor | |
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| The Battle for Food | |
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| American Boom | |
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| Feeding Britain | |
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| From meat to bread and potatoes | |
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| American dried egg and Argentinian corned beef | |
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| The Battle of the Atlantic | |
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| The worst winter of the war | |
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| The American lifeline | |
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| Frozen meat versus men and arms | |
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| Victory in the Atlantic | |
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| Mobilizing the British Empire | |
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| The Middle East Supply Centre | |
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| Profiteering in East Africa | |
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| West Africa and the dollar deficit | |
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| The Bengal famine | |
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| Feeding Germany | |
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| The battle for production | |
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| The occupation of western Europe | |
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| Greek famine and Belgian resilience | |
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| Allies and Aryans | |
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| Germany Exports Hunger to the East | |
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| Living off the land | |
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| Implementing the Hunger Plan | |
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| The food crisis of 1941-42 | |
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| The Holocaust in Poland | |
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| Food confiscation in the Ukraine | |
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| Soviet Collapse | |
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| Japan's Journey towards Starvation | |
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| Rice and sweet potatoes | |
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| Chaos and hunger in the empire | |
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| China Divided | |
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| Nationalist collapse | |
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| Communist survival | |
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| The Politics of Food | |
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| Japan - Starving for the Emperor | |
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| Healthy eating as a patriotic virtue | |
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| Churchill's rations | |
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| The American blockade | |
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| Guadalcanal | |
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| New Guinea | |
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| Burma | |
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| Hunger on the home islands | |
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| Surrender | |
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| The Soviet Union - Fighting on Empty | |
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| Feeding the Red Army | |
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| Feeding the cities | |
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| The American lifeline | |
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| Perseverance despite hunger | |
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| Germany and Britain - Two Approaches to Entitlement | |
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| 1930s Britain - a nutritional divide | |
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| 1930s Germany - the campaign for nutritional freedom | |
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| The politics of rationing | |
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| Feeding the British working classes | |
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| Feeding the German war machine | |
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| The black market | |
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| The German cities - hungry but not starving | |
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| The British Empire - War as Welfare | |
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| Dr Carrot - guarding the British nation's health | |
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| Closing the nutritional gap | |
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| Health and morale - the Army Catering Corps | |
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| Fighting on bully beef and biscuits | |
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| Porridge, peas and vitamins | |
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| Nutritional reconditioning - the Indian army | |
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| The United States - Out of Depression and into Abundance | |
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| The 'good war' | |
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| Future hopes | |
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| Troop welfare | |
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| Australia - food processing for victory | |
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| Feeding Pacific islanders | |
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| The Aftermath | |
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| A Hungry World | |
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| A World of Plenty | |
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| American plenty versus European relief | |
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| A vision for the future | |
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| The shape of the post-war food world | |
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| The rise of the new consumer | |
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| A Selective Chronology of the Second World War | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |