General introductionIntroduction to Volume 1Part I. Grand Strategies: Introduction to Part I 1. British military strategy 2. China's long war with Japan3. French grand strategy and defence preparations4. German strategy, 1939-455. Mussolini's strategy 1939-436. Feigning grand strategy: Japan, 1937-457. US grand strategy, 1939-458. Soviet strategyPart II. Campaigns: Introduction to Part II 9. Campaigns in China, 1937-4510. War in the West, 1939-40: an unplanned Blitzkrieg11. War in the West, 1939-40: the Battle of Britain?12. Operations on the Eastern Front, 1941-513. The Mediterranean and North Africa, 1940-414. The war in the West, 1943-515. The war in the Pacific, 1941-516. The Atlantic war, 1939-4517. Anglo-American strategic bombing, 1940-5Part III. Fighting Forces: Introduction to Part III18. War planning 19. Armies, navies, air forces: the instruments of war 20. Filling the ranks: conscription and personnel policies 21. Logistics by land and air22. Intelligence 23. Prisoners of war 24. Guerrillas and counter-insurgencyBibliographical essaysIndexIntroduction to Volume 2Part I. IDEOLOGIES Introduction to Part I 1 The Axis: Germany, Japan and Italy on the road to war2 Western Allied ideology, 1939?19453 The Soviet Union and the international left4 The propaganda war5 Reporting from the battlefield: censorship and journalism6 International organizations7 Nazi genocides8 War crimes trials Part II. DIPLOMACY AND ALLIANCES Introduction to Part II 9 Europe: the failure of diplomacy, 1933-194010 Asia-Pacific: the failure of diplomacy, 1931-1941 11 The diplomacy of the Axis, 1940?194512 The diplomacy of the Grand Alliance13 Spain: betting on a Nazi victory14 Sweden: negotiated neutralityPart III. OCCUPATION, COLLABORATION, RESISTANCE AND LIBERATIONIntroduction to Part III 15 Wartime occupation by Germany: food and sex16 Collaboration, resistance and liberation in Western Europe17 Wartime occupation by Italy18 Collaboration, resistance and liberation in the Balkans, 1941-1945 19 Soviet liberations and occupations, 1939-194920 Collaboration, resistance and accommodation in Northeast Asia21 Japanese occupation of Southeast Asia, 1941-194522 The British Empire, 1939-194523 France and its colonial civil wars, 1940-194524 The Muslim world in the Second World WarBibliographical essaysIndexIntroduction to Volume 3 Part I. Political Economy: Introduction to Part I 1. The economics of the war with Germany2. Finance for war in Asia and its aftermath 3. War of the factories 4. Controlling resources: coal, iron-ore and oil in the Second World War5. The human fuel: food as global commodity and local scarcity 6. Knowledge economies7. Seaborne transportPart II. The Social Practice of Total War, 1939?1945: Introduction to Part II 8. Death and survival in the Second World War 9. Battles for morale: an entangled history of total war in Europe, 1939-1945 10. The war of the cities: industrial labouring forces 11. The war of the villages: the interwar agrarian crisis and the Second World War12. Hors de combat: mobilization and immobilization in total war 13. Environments, states and societies at warPart III. The Moral Economy of War: Introduction to Part III 14. Just and unjust wars: military ? civil society ? states15. Wars of displacement: exile and uprooting in the 1940s 16. Sexuality and sexual violence 17. A war for liberty: the law of conscientious objection in the Second World War18. Bringing the dogs of war to heel: pacifism in the Second World War19. Humanitarian politics and governance: international responses to the civilian toll in the Second World War Part IV. Illusive Peace: From War to Cold War: Introduction to Part IV 20. The rise and fall of central planning 21. Two types of new deal. The Second World War and the renegotiation of the social contract in Britain, Europe and America22. Nationalism, decolonization, geopolitics and the Asian postwar 23. Making peace as a project of moral reconstruction Part V. In the Aftermath of Catastrophic Destruction: Introduction to Part V Michael 24. Interpretations of catastrophe 25. The ghosts of war 26. Popular memory, popular culture: the war in the postwar world 27. The Second World War in global memory space 28. Landscapes of destruction: capturing images and creating memory through photography Bibliographical essayIndex