Synopses & Reviews
The essays in this compelling collection examine the period between the two world wars of the twentieth century; one of the most exciting in the history of war. They explore the lingering consequences of World War I; the intellectual efforts to analyze this conflict's military significance; the attempts to plan for another general war; and several episodes in the 1930s that portended the war that erupted in 1939.
Review
"[An] illuminating essay collection..." German Studies Review"The Shadows of Total War: Europe, East Asia, and the United States, 1919-1939 makes a significant contribution to historical scholarship and will prove useful to academic readers as well as educated lay readers interested in the subject of total war and the question of whether its time has finally passed." History"...a very good book, full of new ideas and unusual knowledge, as well as admirable summaries of current historiography..." Military History"...this volume is a useful and carefully-produced contribution to the contemporary literature on the aftermath of large-scale war... The editors have done a fine job of maintaining a high standard of syntactical, grammatical, and orthographical quality, and both they and the GHI [German Historical Institute] are to be commended for their industry, through which a large community of their colleagues may now profit." H-German (H-Net)
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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. The essays in this collection, the fourth in a series on the problem of total war, examine the interwar period. They explore the lingering consequences of World War I, the intellectual efforts to analyze this conflict's military significance, the attempts to plan for another general war, and several episodes in the 1930s that portended the war that erupted in 1939.
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The essays explore consequences of World War I and several episodes that portended the war that erupted in 1939.
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Explores the consequences of the Great War and attempts to prepare for another possible conflict.
Synopsis
The essays in this collection, the fourth in a series on the problem of total war, examine the inter-war period.
Table of Contents
Introduction Roger Chickering and Stig Förster; Part I. Reflections of the Interwar Period: 1. The politics of war and peace in the 1920s and 1930s Gerhad L. Weinberg; 2. War and society in the 1920s and 1930s Hew Strachan; 3. Plans, weapons, doctrines: the strategic cultures of interwar Europe Dennis E. Showalter; Part II. Legacies of the Great War: 4. Religious socialism, peace, and pacifism: the case of Paul Tillich Hartmut Lehmann; 5. No more peace: the militarization of politics James M. Diehl; 6. The war's returns: the care of disabled veterans in Britain and Germany Deborah Cohen; 7. The impact of total war on the practice of British psychiatry Edgar Jones and Simon Wessely; Part III. Visions of the Next War: 8. Sore loser: Erich Ludendorff's total war Roger Chickering; 9. Strangelove, or how Ernst Jünger learned to love total war Thomas Rohkrämer; 10. Shadows of total war in French and British military journals, 1918-1939 Timo Baumann and Daniel Marc Segesser; 11. Yesterday's battles and future war: the German official military history, 1918-1939 Markus Pöhlmann; 12. 'The study of the distant past is futile': American reflections on new military frontiers Bernd Greiner; Part IV. Projections and Practice: 13. 'Not by law but by sentiment': Great Britain and imperial defense, 1918-1939 Benedikt Stuchtey; 14. 'Blitzkrieg' or total war? war preparations in Nazi Germany Wilhelm Deist; 15. The legion condor: an instrument of total war? Klaus A. Maier; 16. Stalinism as total social war Hans-Heinrich Nolte; 17. Total colonial warfare: Ethiopia Giulia Brogini Künzi; 18. Japan's wartime empire in China Louise Young.