The Second World War, Vol. II

2015

The military events of the Second World War have been the subject of historical debate from 1945 to the present. It mattered greatly who won, and fighting was the essential determinant of victory or defeat. In Volume i of The Cambridge History of the Second World War, a team of twenty-five leading historians offers a comprehensive and authoritative new account of the war's military and strategic history. Part i examines the military cultures and strategic objectives of the eight major powers involved. Part ii surveys the course of the war in its key theatres across the world, and assesses why one side or the other prevailed there. Part iii considers, in a comparative way, key aspects of military activity, including planning, intelligence, and organization of troops and matériel, as well as guerrilla fighting and treatment of prisoners of war.

2003

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

In his memoirs, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill observed, "We have at length emerged from a scene of material ruin and moral havoc the like of which had never darkened the imagination of former centuries. After all that we suffered and achieved we find ourselves still confronted with problems not less but far more formidable than those which we have so narrowly made our way." While Churchill was reflecting largely upon the British experience of World War II, his conclusions could have been made by any participant in the Second World War. World War II had been a global conflict even greater in magnitude, brutality, and destruction than the Great War, which everyone had assumed was "the war to end all wars." Yet even after fascism had been defeated, new challenges remained for the globe.

The Montreal Review, 2010

The Peace that led to War Wilhelmine Germany: realities and interpretations (part I) Wilhelmine Germany: Historical Interpretations (part II) ***

2008

The Routledge Atlas of the Second World War (Routledge Historical Atlases) Index

The European Legacy, 2015

2015

70 Years after the end of the Second World War, research into its history continues to blossom, grow and diversify, both in academia and the larger public arena. In both Belgium and the Netherlands the historiography of the Second World War is well-established, strongly institutionalized, supported by a plethora of highly diverse local initiatives in museums, memorials and heritage centres and accepted as an essentially legitimate endeavour by the larger public, policy makers and funders.