Food and war in twentieth century Europe / edited by Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska, Rachel Duffett, Alain Drouard.

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2011], ©2011.

xvi, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Pt. 1. Soldiers and their food -- Food provisioning in the German Army of the First World War / Peter Lummel -- British Army provisioning on the Western Front, 1914-1918 / Rachel Duffett -- Fighting a Kosher war : German Jews and Kashrut in the First World War / Steven Schouten -- pt. 2. Home front : the citizens adapt -- Food provisioning on the German home front, 1914-1918 / Hans-Jürgen Teuteberg -- Bread from wood : natural food substitutes in the Czech lands during the First World War / Martin Franc -- Hunger and misery : the influence of the First World War on the diet of Slovenian civilians / Maja Godina Golija -- The Spanish Civil War and its aftermath : eating strategies and social change / Alicia Guidonet Riera -- Alimentary and pellagra psychoses in besieged Leningrad / Pavel Vasilyev -- pt. 3. Home front : the state interviews -- Fair shares? : the limits of food policy in Britain during the Second World War / Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska -- Communal feeding in wartime : British restaurants, 1940-1947 / Peter J. Atkins -- Rationing and politics : the French Academy of Medicine and food shortages during the German occupation and the Vichy regime / Isabelle von Bueltzingsloewen -- Réalités cruelles : state controls and the black market for food in occupied France / Kenneth Mouré -- Nutrition education in times of food shortages and hunger : war and occupation in the Netherlands, 1939-1945 / Adel P. den Hartog -- pt. 4. War, modernization, and innovation -- Mikkel Hindhede and the science and rhetoric of food rationing in Denmark, 1917-1918 / Svend Skafte Overgaard -- The modernization of the Icelandic diet and the impact of war, 1914-1945 / Guðmundur Jónsson and Örn D. Jónsson -- Horsemeat in France : a food item that appeared during the War of 1870 and disappeared after the Second World War / Alain Drouard -- The innovative power of war : the army, food sciences, and the food industry in Germany in the twentieth century / Ulrike Thoms.

Includes bibliographical references and index.