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OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,17/2/2015,SPi THE OXFORD ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,21/2/2015,SPi ThetwelvehistorianswhocontributedtoTheOxfordIllustratedHistoryof WorldWarIIarealldistinguishedauthoritiesintheirfield.Theyare: RICHARDBESSEL,UniversityofYork PATRICIACLAVIN,UniversityofOxford DAVIDEDGERTON,ImperialCollegeLondon DAVIDFRENCH,UniversityCollegeLondon ERICGROVE,LiverpoolHopeUniversity NICOLALABANCA,UniversityofSiena STEVENHUGHLEE,UniversityofBritishColumbia EVANMAWDSLEY,UniversityofGlasgow RICHARDOVERY,UniversityofExeter GEOFFREYROBERTS,UniversityCollegeCork MICHAELSNAPE,UniversityofBirmingham DAVIDWELCH,UniversityofKent OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,17/2/2015,SPi THE OXFORD ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF W O R L D W A R I I Edited by R O ICHARD VERY 1 OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,17/2/2015,SPi 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxford,OXDP, UnitedKingdom OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. ItfurtherstheUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellenceinresearch,scholarship, andeducationbypublishingworldwide.Oxfordisaregisteredtrademarkof OxfordUniversityPressintheUKandincertainothercountries #OxfordUniversityPress Themoralrightsoftheauthorshavebeenasserted FirstEditionpublishedin Impression: Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,storedin aretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans,withoutthe priorpermissioninwritingofOxfordUniversityPress,orasexpresslypermitted bylaw,bylicenceorundertermsagreedwiththeappropriatereprographics rightsorganization.Enquiriesconcerningreproductionoutsidethescopeofthe aboveshouldbesenttotheRightsDepartment,OxfordUniversityPress,atthe addressabove Youmustnotcirculatethisworkinanyotherform andyoumustimposethissameconditiononanyacquirer PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyOxfordUniversityPress MadisonAvenue,NewYork,NY,UnitedStatesofAmerica BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Dataavailable LibraryofCongressControlNumber: ISBN –––– PrintedinItalyby L.E.G.O.S.p.A. LinkstothirdpartywebsitesareprovidedbyOxfordingoodfaithand forinformationonly.Oxforddisclaimsanyresponsibilityforthematerials containedinanythirdpartywebsitereferencedinthiswork. OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,17/2/2015,SPi ’ EDITOR S PREFACE THE Second World War is now three generations away, the anniversary of its end in seventyyearssincetheconflictformallyended.Thewarhasleftalongshadow across the second half of the twentieth century. Memorialization of its victims con- tinues and popular fascination with its history is unabated. Unlike the Great War of –, the second conflict affected literally the whole world; it resulted in around five times as many deaths; and it was punctuated by remarkable moments of drama andsacrifice,allofwhichexplainsthatpersistentinterest.Thechronologicaldistance from the war has, however, allowed historians to think differently about how to describe and define it, how to explain its course, and above all what subjects should now concern us when considering wartime experience. The Oxford Illustrated His- tory of World War II follows a proud tradition in the Press in producing up-to-date andprofuselyillustratedvolumesonarangeofhistoricalsubjects.Thecurrentvolume is designed to introduce a range of themes that are less commonly found in general historiesofthewarandwhichreflectcurrentdevelopmentsinhistoricalscholarship.It is also designed to bring the war to life by presenting it in visual terms. The war was foughtatatimewhenphoto-journalismwasatitszenithandcolourfilmjustcoming into its own; the propaganda apparatus in every warring state produced leaflets and postersinprofusion;officialartistswereorganizedevenmorethanintheFirstWorld War to provide portraits of wartime life. There is of course an enormous wealth of material available to illustrate the war; the images chosen here are designed to accompany points raised in the texts and should be viewed with that in mind. My task as General Editor has been made easier thanks to the quality of the different contributionsandthehelpfulnessandpatienceofthecontributorsduringtheeditorial process. I am grateful to the team at Oxford University Press for all their help in turningthisintoasuccessfulandvisuallyattractivevolume,inparticulartoMatthew Cotton, Kim Behrens, Kizzy Taylor-Richelieu, and Paul Simmons, who drew the maps.Theresultis,Ihope,afittingwaytore-examineaconflictthatwiththepassage oftimeremainsalivedexperienceforonlyafewbutwhichhasbecomeintheinterval a vibrant example of living history. RICHARD OVERY Exeter and London, OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,17/2/2015,SPi OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,17/2/2015,SPi CONTENTS List of Colour Plates ix List of Maps xi INTRODUCTION: TOTAL WAR—GLOBAL WAR Richard Overy . THE GENESIS OF WORLD WAR Patricia Clavin . THE JAPANESE EMPIRE AT WAR, – Steven Hugh Lee . THE ITALIAN WARS Nicola Labanca . THE GERMAN WARS Richard Overy . THE WEST AND THE WAR AT SEA Eric Grove . THE ALLIES FROM DEFEAT TO VICTORY Evan Mawdsley . FIGHTING POWER: WAR-MAKING AND MILITARY INNOVATION David French . ECONOMIES IN TOTAL WAR Richard Overy . FRONT LINE I: ARMED FORCES AT WAR Michael Snape . FRONT LINE II: CIVILIANS AT WAR Richard Overy . UNNATURAL DEATHS Richard Bessel OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,17/2/2015,SPi viii Contents . BRAINS AT WAR: INVENTION AND EXPERTS David Edgerton . THE CULTURE OF WAR: IDEAS, ARTS, AND PROPAGANDA David Welch . FROM WORLD WAR TO COLD WAR Geoffrey Roberts Maps Further Reading Picture Acknowledgements Index OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,17/2/2015,SPi LIST OF COLOUR PLATES . A French anti-Bolshevik poster from warning of the threat to capital, labour, and knowledge. . A Hungarian poster from welcoming President Wilson’s Fourteen Points and hope for a just peace. . Kandy Commonwealth War Cemetery, showing tombstones for soldiers from the Madras Labour Unit and the King’s African Rifles, and . . Mother and child memorial statue, at ground zero, Nagasaki Peace Park, Japan. . Edward Bawden, painting of of an Italian partisan headquarters in Ravenna towards the end of the war. . A poster issued by the Italian Social Republic mocks the Allied claim to be liberating Italy while at the same time bombing its towns and killing an estimated , Italians. . A pre-war evening rally of the SS in Germany. . A German soldier armed with a flamethrower in the opening months of Operation Barbarossa, the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union. . A coastal convoy, probably between Southampton and the Thames estuary, seen from the barrage balloon vessel Inverugie. . One of the key naval aircraft of the war, a Grumman Avenger bomber, on the flight deck of an American escort carrier. . ‘Jewish Plot against Europe!’ In line with Nazi propaganda, an anti-Semitic Belgian collaborationist poster of depicts the British–Soviet alliance as part of the world Jewish conspiracy. . ‘United we are strong’, US Office of War Information poster (artist: Henry Koerner), . . A German tank advancing towards Bordeaux in June . . P- Mustang long-range fighter aircraft.
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