The taste of war : World War Two and the battle for food / Lizzie Collingham.

  • Collingham, E. M. (Elizabeth M.)
Date:
2011
  • Books

About this work

Description

Food, and in particular the lack of it, was central to the experience of the Second World War. In this history, Lizzie Collingham establishes how control of food and its production is crucial to total war.

Publication/Creation

London : Allen Lane, 2011.

Physical description

xv, 634 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Contributors

Contents

Ch. 1. Introduction: war and food -- pt. 1. Food: and engine of war -- ch. 2. Germany's quest for empire -- ch. 3. Japan's quest for empire -- pt. 2. The battle for food -- ch. 4. American boom -- ch. 5. Feeding Britain -- ch. 6. The Battle of the Atlantic -- ch. 7. Mobilizing the British empire -- ch. 8. Feeding Germany -- ch. 9. Germany exports hunger to the east -- ch. 10. Soviet collapse -- ch. 11. Japan's journey towards starvation --ch. 12. China divided -- pt. 3. The politics of food -- ch. 13. Japan: starving for the emperor -- ch. 14. The Soviet Union: fighting on empty -- ch. 15. Germany and Britain: two approaches to entitlement -- ch. 16. The British Empire: war as welfare -- ch. 17. The United States: out of Depression and into abundance -- pt. 4. The aftermath -- ch. 18. A hungry world -- ch. 19. A world of plenty.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 581-620) and index.

Languages

Subjects

Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    DFX.AA9
    		Open shelves

Permanent link

Identifiers

ISBN

  • 9780713999648
  • 0713999640