Routledge Library Editions: WW2
About the Book Series
This set of previously out-of-print books collects together a host of valuable research spanning the breadth of topics around the Second World War. Areas covered include the air war, land battles, generalship, dictatorship and appeasement, the use of atomic weapons, propaganda, conscription and conscientious objection, civilian evacuation, refugees, resistance under occupation, and much more besides.
The Japan/America Film Wars: World War II Propaganda and its Cultural Contexts
1st Edition
Edited
By Abé Mark Nornes, Fukushima Yukio
June 15, 2023
With contributions from noted critics and film historians from both countries, this book, first published in 1994, examines some of the most innovative and disturbing propaganda ever created. It analyses the conflicting images of these films and their effectiveness in defining public perception of ...
Britain's Food Supplies in Peace and War
1st Edition
By Charles Smith
April 15, 2023
This book, first published in 1940, is a systematic analysis of Britain’s principal food supplies and the means by which they are distributed to the people. Its calculates the total quantities of food required to feed the whole nation properly, examines pricing structures and the sources of the ...
Churchill in his Time: A Study in a Reputation, 1939–1945
1st Edition
By Brian Gardner
April 15, 2023
This book, first published in 1968, analyses Winston Churchill’s war years using a wide range of little-consulted sources to give us a full and round picture of a prime minister beloved by many but disliked by others. Contemporary accounts and opinions bring us close to the reality of the man, and ...
Civil Liberties in Britain During the 2nd World War: A Political Study
1st Edition
By Neil Stammers
April 15, 2023
War and such crises are seen as aberrations in the history and development of democracy – a time when otherwise unacceptable constraints can be imposed on the ordinary man with little or no dissent. The reasoning behind this is questioned in this book, first published in 1983. It makes a detailed ...
Film & Radio Propaganda in World War II
1st Edition
Edited
By K.R.M. Short
April 15, 2023
This book, first published in 1983, brings together leading world experts on film and radio propaganda in a study which deals with each of the major powers as well as several under occupation. By examining each nations’ propaganda content and comparing its various strands of output designed for ...
General Staffs and Diplomacy before the Second World War
1st Edition
Edited
By Adrian Preston
April 15, 2023
This book, first published in 1978, examines the influence of the General Staffs upon the diplomacy of appeasement and rearmament between 1931 and 1941. The great question of European security and order, and their breakdown and the outbreak of the second world war, are examined here through the ...
Hitler's Fall: The Newsreel Witness
1st Edition
Edited
By K.R.M. Short, Stephan Dolezel
April 15, 2023
This book, first published in 1988, provides a comparative approach for looking at the filmic witness of the final days of the Third Reich, and the opening of the period often referred to as Stunde Null (Zero Hour) – that moment when a new Germany emerged from catastrophic destruction. Brought ...
Partisan Warfare
1st Edition
By Otto Heilbrunn
April 15, 2023
This book, first published in 1962, was the first systematic study of partisan war, investigating questions thrown up by the success of guerrillas in the Second World War, where they were never decisively beaten by regular armies. Drawing on lessons from Soviet Russia and China in particular, areas...
Psychology and the Soldier: The Art of Leadership
1st Edition
By Norman Copeland
April 15, 2023
This book, first published in 1944, stresses the point that there is no shortcut to successful wartime leadership, and pays a close analysis to the attributes that contribute to being a sound leader of soldiers. Written in the middle of the Second World War, this book gives us valuable insights ...
Refugees in the Age of Total War
1st Edition
Edited
By Anna C. Bramwell
April 15, 2023
This book, first published in 1988, charts society’s responses to the huge numbers of refugees in Europe and the Middle East during and after the Second World War. At the close of the war large areas of Europe lay in ruins, and large numbers of refugees faced upheaval and famine. Political ...
Resistance and Revolution in Mediterranean Europe 1939–1948
1st Edition
Edited
By Tony Judt
April 15, 2023
This book, first published in 1989, is the first general study of Communism in Mediterranean Europe during and immediately after the war. It sheds light on the origins of Europe’s Cold War East-West divide and probes the common and conflicting interests of the Soviet Union with the separate ...
Rommel's Last Victory: The Battle of Kasserine Pass
1st Edition
By Martin Blumenson
April 15, 2023
This book, first published in 1968, examines the disastrous defeat suffered by inexperienced American troops, newly landed in North Africa, at the hands of Rommel. The news of Kasserine shocked the United States militarily and politically, and led to swift changes in equipment and tactics. This ...