Shadows of Total War Europe, East Asia, and the United States, 1919-1939

Name: Shadows of Total War Europe, East Asia, and the United States, 1919-1939
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ISBN: 9780521812368

ISBN-10: 0521812364

ISBN-13: 9780521812368

Edition: 2002

Authors: Roger Chickering, Stig Forster, David Lazar, Christof Mauch

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The period between the two world wars of the twentieth century was one of the most crucial in the history of war. In anticipation of another conflict, military planners and civilian thinkers struggled after 1918 with the painful implications of World War I. Given its scope, the wholesale mobilization of civilian populations, and the targeting of civilians via blockades and strategic bombing, many observers regarded this titanic conflict as a 'total war'. They also concluded that any future conflict would bear the same hallmarks; and they planned accordingly. The essays in this collection, the fourth in a series on the problem of total war, examine the interwar period. They explore the…

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List price: $88.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/16/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 376
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English



Contributors


Introduction Roger Chickering and Stig Forster



Reflections on the Inter-war Period



The Politics of War and Peace in the 1920s and 1930s




War and Society in the 1920s and 1930s




Plans, Weapons, Doctrines: The Strategic Cultures of Interwar Europe




Legacies of the Great War



Religious Socialism, Peace Pacifism: The Case of Paul Tillich




No More Peace: The Militarisation of Politics




The War's Returns: Disabled Veterans in Britain and Germany, 1914ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½1939




The Impact of Total War on the Practice of British Psychiatry




Visions of the Next War



Sore Loser: Ludendorff's Total War




Strangelove, or how Ernst JÃ¼nger Learned to Love Total War




Shadows of Total War in French and British Military Journals, 1918ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½1939




Yesterday's Battles and Future War: The German Official Military History, 1918ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½1939




'The Study of the Distant Past is Futile': American Reflections on New Military Frontiers




Projections and Practice



'Not by Law but by Sentiment': Great Britain and Imperial Defense, 1918ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½1939




'Blitzkrieg' or Total War? War Preparations in Nazi Germany




The Condor Legion: An Instrument of Total War?




Stalinism as Total Social War




Total Colonial Warfare: Ethiopia




Japan's Wartime Empire in China



Index