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Thomas W. Zeiler is Professor of History and International Affairs at the University of Colorado, Boulder. The editor of the journal Diplomatic History and former president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, he is the author of Unconditional Defeat: Japan, America, and the End of World War II (2004), Ambassadors in Pinstripes: The Spalding World Baseball Tour and the Birth of the American Empire (2006), American Foreign Relations since 1600: A Guide to the Literature, Third Edition (2007), and Annihilation: A Global Military History of World War II (2010).

Daniel M. DuBois is a doctoral candidate at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the assistant editor of the journal Diplomatic History.

Volume 1

Notes on Contributors x

Introduction 1

Part I Roots of War 11

1 How a Second World War Happened 13
Gerhard L. Weinberg

2 The Versailles Peace Settlement and the Collective Security System 29
Frédéric Dessberg

3 The Great Depression 47
John E. Moser

4 Colonialism in Asia 63
Christopher D. O’Sullivan

5 Visionaries of Expansion 77
R. J. B. Bosworth

6 Soviet Planning for War, 1928–June 1941 91
Alexander Hill

Part II Fighting the War 103

7 Japanese Early Attack 105
Brian P. Farrell

8 War and Empire: The Transformation of Southern Asia 124
Gary R. Hess

9 CBI: A Historiographical Review 141
Maochun Yu

10 The German Assault, 1939–1941 154
Robert M. Citino

11 Militaries Compared: Wehrmacht and Red Army, 1941–1945 169
Mark Edele

12 The Bombers: The Strategic Bombing of Germany and Japan 186
Randall Wakelam

13 Scandinavian Campaigns 208
Olli Vehviläinen

14 The Naval War in the Mediterranean 222
Barbara Brooks Tomblin

15 Ocean War 243
Ashley Jackson

16 Maritime War: Combat, Management, and Memory 262
Kevin Smith

17 The Middle East and World War II 278
Simon Davis

18 The Western Front, 1944–1945 296
Christopher R. Gabel

19 Battle Fronts and Home Fronts: The War in the East from Stalingrad to Berlin 312
Kenneth Slepyan

20 German Defeat 333
Neil Gregor

21 Southwest Pacific 351
Mark Roehrs

22 The Military Occupations of World War II: A Historiography 368
Nicholas Evan Sarantakes

23 Ending the Pacific War: The New History 387
Richard B. Frank

Part III Multinational and Transnational Zones of Combat: Strategy 403

24 Axis Coalition Building 405
Richard L. DiNardo

25 Strategies, Commands, and Tactics, 1939–1941 415
Talbot C. Imlay

26 British and American Strategic Planning 433
Earl J. Catagnus, Jr.

27 Wartime Conferences 448
Mark A. Stoler

28 The US War Against Japan: A Transnational Perspective 462
Akira Iriye

29 World War II and Communication Technologies 477
James Schwoch

30 Of Spies and Stratagems 482
John Prados

31 French African Soldiers in World War II 501
Raffael Scheck

32 Scientists and Nuclear Weapons in World War II: The Background, the Experience, and the Sometimes Contested Meanings and Analyses 516
Barton J. Bernstein

33 Civilians in the Combat Zone: Anglo-American
Strategic Bombing 549
Sean L. Malloy

VOLUME II

Notes on Contributors x

Introduction 569

Part IV Multinational and Transnational Zones of Combat: Society 579

34 European Societies in Wartime 581
Isabelle Davion

35 Life in Plato’s Cave: Neutral Europe in World War II 603
Neville Wylie

36 Resistance in Eastern Europe 618
Stephan Lehnstaedt

37 Boomerang Resistance: German Émigrés in the US Army during World War II 638
Patricia Kollander

38 Beyond Impact: Toward a New Historiography of Africa and World War II 652
Judith A. Byfield

39 Race, Genocide, and Holocaust 666
Jochen Böhler

40 Holocaust and Genocide Today 685
Yehuda Bauer

41 Environmental Dimensions of World War II 698
Jacob Darwin Hamblin

42 The Women of World War II 717
D’Ann Campbell

43 Transnational Civil Rights during World War II 739
Travis J. Hardy

44 Global Culture and World War II 754
M. Todd Bennett

Part V Homelands 773

45 The Balkans in the Origins of World War II 775
Marietta Stankova

46 Poland’s Military in World War II 792
Michael Alfred Peszke

47 Resistance inside Nazi Germany 813
Frank McDonough

48 Occupied France: The Vichy Regime, Collaboration, and Resistance 825
Julian Jackson

49 The Italian Campaign 841
Elena Agarossi

50 US Foreign Policy, the Grand Alliance, and the Struggle for Indian Independence during the Pacific War 859
Sarah Ellen Graham

51 “P” Was for Plenty 875
William H. Miller

52 Generating American Combat Power in World War II 893
Edward G. Miller

53 American Anti-Semitism during World War II 909
Stephen H. Norwood

Part VI A ftermath and Consequences 927

54 War Crimes in Europe 929
Christoph J. M. Safferling

55 Anglo-American Postwar Planning 945
Charlie Whitham

56 The Cultural Legacy of World War II in Germany 962
Susanne Vees-Gulani

57 World War II in Historical Memory 978
Marc Gallicchio

58 The Place of World War II in Global History 999
Gerhard L. Weinberg

Index 1013

“Even so, this is a minor quibble. Zeiler, an expert on Japanese American relations and World War II, and DuBois, a doctoral candidate at the University of Colorado–Boulder, have per­formed a real service for the field and are to be commended for their work.”  (The Journal of American History, 1 March 2014)

“This would be an essential purchase for academic and special libraries with large humanities collections.”  (Reference Reviews, 1 November 2013)

“There is no doubt that, taken as a whole, the Companion is full of first-class, historiographical and bibliographical information and insights. . . Accordingly one can unreservedly recommend it to all University and Departmental libraries as a reliable work of reference on the state of research into the Second World War.”  (Cercles, 1 December 2013)

“This companion is destined to become a valuable contribution to the historiography of the war, and should find a welcome home in either the reference or general collection of any academic library.  Summing Up.  Essential.  All academic levels/libraries.”  (Choice, 1 September 2013)