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The Oxford Illustrated History

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Overview of World War II
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Richard Overy
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A new assessment of World War Two for a new This item has an extended
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Written by a team of leading historians under the
expert editorial guidance of Richard Overy Published: 01 June 2015
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Covers everything from Japanese aggression 416 Pages | 245 b&w
halftones; 28 color
against China in the early 1930s to the transition
halftones; 18 maps
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9.7 x 7.4 inches
Outlines the genesis of war, the major theatres of
conflict, the economics of total war, the fighting ISBN: 9780199605828
power of the combatants, genocide, the culture of
war, and the experience of war for both
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Explores the course of the war not just in terms

of the Allied response but also from the viewpoint
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World War Two was the most devastating conflict in recorded human history. It was both
global in extent and total in character. It has understandably left a long and dark shadow
across the decades. Yet it is three generations since hostilities formally ended in 1945 and
the conflict is now a lived memory for only a few. And this growing distance in time has
allowed historians to think differently about how to describe it, how to explain its course,
and what subjects to focus on when considering the wartime experience.

For instance, as World War Two recedes ever further into the past, even a question as
apparently basic as when it began and ended becomes less certain. Was it 1939, when the
war in Europe began? Or the summer of 1941, with the beginning of Hitler's war against
the Soviet Union? Or did it become truly global only when the Japanese brought the USA
into the war at the end of 1941? And what of the long conflict in East Asia, beginning with
the Japanese aggression in China in the early 1930s and only ending with the triumph of
the Chinese Communists in 1949?

In The Oxford Illustrated History of World War Two a team of leading historians re-
assesses the conflict for a new generation, exploring the course of the war not just in
terms of the Allied response but also from the viewpoint of the Axis aggressor states.
Under Richard Overy's expert editorial guidance, the contributions take us from the
genesis of war, through the action in the major theatres of conflict by land, sea, and air, to
assessments of fighting power and military and technical innovation, the economics of
total war, the culture and propaganda of war, and the experience of war (and genocide)
for both combatants and civilians, concluding with an account of the transition from World
War to Cold War in the late 1940s. Together, they provide a stimulating and thought-
provoking new interpretation of one of the most terrible and fascinating episodes in world
history.
 Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements

Editor's Introduction

1. The Genesis of World War, Patricia Clavin

2. Japan's War in Asia, Steven Lee

3. The Italian Wars, Nicola Labanca

4. The German Wars, Richard Overy

5. The West and the War at Sea, Eric Grove

6. The Allies from Defeat to Victory, Evan Mawdsley

7. Fighting Power: World War and Military Innovation, David French

8. Economies in Total War, Richard Overy

9. Front Line I: Armed Forces at War, Michael Snape

10. Front Line II: Civilians at War, Richard Overy

11. Unnatural Deaths, Richard Bessel

12. War, Invention, and Experts, David Edgerton

13. The Culture of War: Propaganda, Arts and Ideas, David Welch

14. From World War to Cold War, Geoffrey Roberts

Epilogue

Further Reading

Index

Author Information
Richard Overy is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. He is the author of more
than twenty five books on the history of twentieth-century war and dictatorship, including
the highly acclaimed Why the Allies Won (1995) and the prize-winning Dictators: Hitler's
Germany and Stalin's Russia (2004). He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Member
of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. His most recent book is The Bombing
War: Europe 1939-1945 (2013), shortlisted for the Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in military
history.

Contributors:

Richard Bessel, University of York

Patricia Clavin, University of Oxford

David Edgerton, King's College London

David French, University College London

Eric Grove, Liverpool Hope University

Nicola Labanca, University of Siena

Steven Lee, University of British Columbia

Evan Mawdsley, University of Glasgow

Richard Overy, University of Exeter

Geoffrey Roberts, University College Cork

Michael Snape, University of Birmingham

David Welch, University of Kent

Reviews and Awards

"Compelling in its narrative, fascinating in its detail, magisterial in its analysis, global in its
breadth, Richard Overy, one of our outstanding scholars of mid-20th Century history, here
delivers a military, political and economic history of WW2, aided by a galaxy of
distinguished scholars, that is essential, accessible reading for general readers as well as
students." --Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Stalin: the Court of the Red Tsar

"Do we really need another illustrated history of WW II? Yes, we do, especially this
volume, which combines a breadth and depth not seen in much military history writing.
The skillful analysis of each chapter does not sacrifice narrative ability to address topics
ranging from the German, Italian, and Japanese conduct of the land, sea, and air wars to
the political intricacies of the Grand Alliance, scientific innovation, and the cultural history
of the war." --CHOICE

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