The Great World War 1914-1945: Lighting Strikes Twice

by Liddle, Peter; Whitehead, Ian; Bourne, John

• ISBN13: 9780007116171
• ISBN10: 0007116179
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-05-01
• Publisher: Trafalgar Square

Summary

The 1914-18 War spawned the Bolshevik revolution and paved the way for the Nazis. For many nations, 1939-45 represented a continuation of the First War -- so much so that it is time to consider both conflicts as one Great War from 1914-45. Every aspect of the war is investigated by experts in their particular fields. They compare and contrast the experience of war from the frontlines to the factories, from the high command to ordinary people caught up in world-shattering events. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	7	(2)
Editors' Introduction	9	(4)
PART I THE FRONT LINE EXPERIENCE
A personal reflection on the two World Wars	13	(14)
J. M. Bourne
Preparing for war: the experience of the Cameronians	27	(17)
John Baynes
Cliff Pettit
Waging the undersea war: a British perspective	44	(16)
Jeff Tall
The merchant seaman at war	60	(20)
Tony Lane
War in the air: the fighter pilot	80	(19)
David Jordan
War in the air: the bomber crew	99	(21)
Christina Goulter
The Desert War experience	120	(16)
Niall Barr
War in the Pacific	136	(23)
Eric Bergerud
War in the Tropics: East Africa and Burma	159	(21)
Phillip Parotti
Hitting the Beach: the amphibious experience	180	(21)
Geoffrey Till
British Special Forces operations behind enemy lines	201	(16)
Julian Thompson
Partisans and guerrillas	217	(21)
Malcolm Mackintosh
The experience of being abroad: doughboys and GIs in Europe	238	(15)
James J. Cooke
German soldiers in victory, 1914 and 1940	253	(25)
Benjamin Ziemann
Klaus Latzel
The experience of defeat: Kut (1916) and Singapore (1942)	278	(15)
Robin Neillands
The experience of killing	293	(17)
Joanna Bourke
The experience of captivity: British and Commonwealth prisoners in Germany	310	(19)
Peter H. Liddle
S. P. McKenzie
Casualties and British medical services	329	(26)
Nick Bosanquet
Ian Whitehead
Spies, codebreakers and secret agents	355	(14)
M. R. D. Foot
PART II THE EXPERIENCE OF LEADERSHIP
Monarchy in wartime: King Goerge V and King George VI	369	(14)
Hugo Vickers
Political leaders in wartime: Lloyd George and Churchill	383	(18)
George H. Cassar
Erich Ludendorff and Tojo Hideki: some comparisons	401	(15)
Peter Wetzler
Foch and Eisenhower: Supreme Commanders	416	(12)
Frank E. Vandiver
General Brusilov and Marshal Zhukov, June 1916 and June 1944	428	(17)
John Erickson
Reflections on the experience of British generalship	445	(15)
G. D. Sheffield
Coalition war: the Anglo-American experience	460	(19)
Dennis E. Showalter
Coalition war: Britain and France	479	(13)
William Philpott
Coalition war: Germany and her Allies, Austria-Hungary and Italy	492	(19)
Gary W. Shanafelt
G. T. Waddington
PART III THE EXPERIENCE OF OCCUPATION
The experience of occupation: Belgium	511	(22)
Mark Derez
The experience of occupation: Northern France	533	(18)
Margaret Atack
The experience of occupation: Poland	551	(15)
Anita J. Prazmowska
The experience of displacement: refugees and war	566	(14)
Guy S. Goodwin-Gill
The experience of genocide: Armenia 1915-16 and Romania 1941-42	580	(25)
Mark Levene
Index	605