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The Shadows of Total War

The Shadows of Total War Europe, East Asia, and the United States, 1919-1939 - Publications of the German Historical Institute

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Publisher's Synopsis

The period between the two world wars of the twentieth century was one of the most challenging in the history of war. In anticipation of another conflict, military planners and civilian thinkers struggled after 1918 with the painful implications of World War I. Given its scope, the wholesale mobilisation of civilian populations and the targets of civilians via blockades and strategic bombing, many observers regarded this titanic conflict as a 'total war'. They also concluded that any future conflict would bear the same hallmarks; and they planned accordingly. The essays in this collection, the fourth in a series on the problem of total war, examine the inter-war period. They explore the consequences of World War I, the intellectual efforts to analyse 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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Book information

ISBN: 9780521812368
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 355.033004
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 364
Weight: 634g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 25mm