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Overview
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.

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Editorial Reviews
06/22/2015

Acclaimed British historian Overy (The Bombing War) gathers a dozen—mostly male, mostly British—fellow historians to produce a significant contribution to
the general-audience literature on WWII. The contributors are a cross-section of the field's best, including familiar figures such as David French as well as
lesser-known standouts Michael Snape and Patricia Clavin. They offer fingertip mastery of their specific subjects, balanced analyses, and reader-friendly
presentations on topics ranging from the culture of war to military innovation. Overy's introduction establishes the work's integrating themes: the dissolution
of old empires and political structures under the pressure of mass nationalism, and the ability to create and sustain mass armed forces. Particularly
noteworthy are Clavin's analysis of the war as the "grim apotheosis" of an "endemic crisis of global security under way for 20 years"; Overy's interpretation of
Germany's war as an ideology-based "product of the eternal war... against the phantom Jewish conspiracy in Europe"; and Richard Bessel's searing
presentation of the war's "unnatural deaths... grisly catalogue of brutality, callousness, inhumanity, and murder... in a ubiquitous context of violence "
implemented by states and individuals alike. The compendium's major shortcoming is its relative slighting of the Pacific theater. Nevertheless, this collection
merits wide circulation and attentive reading. (June)

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