The Second World War

Contents: Series preface; Introduction; Repercussions of the Breda variant, Don W. Alexander; Incident at Baranivka: German reprisals and the Soviet partisan movement in Ukraine, October-December 1941, Truman Anderson; The missing years: German workers, German soldiers, Omer Bartov; The Malayan campaign, 1941-2, in international perspective, Carl Bridge; Reflections on France, Britain and the winter war prodrome, 1939-40, John C. Cairns; 'Dilly-dally', or having the last word: Field Marshall Sir John Dill and Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Alex Danchev; Kursk - sixty years on, Karl-Heinz Frieser, Pavel Kulikov, Christopher Bellamy, Geoffrey Vesey Holt and John Hughes-Wilson ; Black marks: Hitler's bribery of his senior officers during World War II, Norman J.W. Goda; The battle of Gembloux, 14-15 May 1940: the 'blitzkrieg' checked, Jeffrey A. Gunsberg; Resource mobilization for World War II; the USA, UK, USSR, and Germany, 1938-1945, Mark Harrison; The strategic air offensive against Germany: the early phase, H.W. Koch; Was World War II a near-run thing?, Alan J. Levine; The treatment of prisoners of war in World War II, S.P. MacKenzie; Hitler's war and the German economy: a reinterpretation, R.J. Overy; Understanding defeat: reappraising Italy's role in World War II, James J. Sadkovich; Partisanes and gender politics in Vichy France, Paula Schwartz; The Third Reich reflected: German civil administration in the occupied Soviet Union, 1941-4, Jonathan Steinberg; Nazism, modern war, and rural Society in Wurttemberg, 1939-45, Jill Stephenson; War against sub-humans: comparisons between the German war against the Soviet Union and the American war against Japan, 1941-45, James Weingartner; Name Index