The Cambridge history of the Second World War

• Introduction to Volume 3

• Part I
• Political Economy: Introduction to Part I

• 1
• The economics of the war with Germany

• 2
• 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 War

• 5
• The human fuel: food as global commodity and local scarcity

• 6
• Transportation

• 7
• Towards a new technological age: technoscience from the 1930s to the 1950s

• 8
• Environments, states and societies at war

• Part II
• The Social Practice of People's War, 1939-1945: Introduction to Part II

• 9
• Death and survival in the Second World War

• 10
• Wars of displacement: exile and uprooting in the 1940s

• 11
• The war of the cities: industrial labouring forces

• 12
• Battles for morale: an entangled history of total war in Europe, 1939-1945

• 13
• Hors de combat: mobilization and immobilization in total war

• 14
• The war of the villages: the interwar agrarian crisis and the Second World War

• Part III
• The Moral Economy of War and Peace: Introduction to Part III

• 15
• Sexuality and sexual violence

• 16
• A war for liberty: the law of conscientious objection

• 17
• Against war: pacifism as collaboration and as resistance

• 18
• Humanitarian politics and governance: international responses to the civilian toll in the Second World War

• 19
• Making peace as a project of moral reconstruction

• 20
• Renegotiating the social contract: Western Europe, Great Britain, Europe and North America

• 21
• The rise and fall of central planning

• 22
• Nationalism, decolonization, geopolitics and the Asian postwar

• Part IV
• In the Aftermath of Catastrophic Destruction: Introduction to Part IV

• 23
• Interpretations of catastrophe: German intellectuals on Nazism, genocide, and mass destruction

• 24
• The ghosts of war

• 25
• Popular memory, popular culture: the war in the postwar world

• 26
• The Second World War in global memory space

• 27
• Landscapes of destruction: capturing images and creating memory through photography

• Bibliographical essay

• Index