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The Peoples' War? - The Second World War in Sociopolitical Perspective (Hardcover)
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The Peoples' War? - The Second World War in Sociopolitical Perspective (Hardcover)
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Some 60 million people died during the Second World War; millions
more were displaced in Europe, Africa, and Asia. The war resulted
in the creation of new states, the acceleration of imperial
decline, and a shift in the distribution of global power. Despite
its unprecedented impact, a comprehensive account of the complex
international experiences of this war remains elusive. The Peoples'
War? offers fresh approaches to the challenge of writing a new
history of the Second World War. Exploring aspects of the war that
have been marginalized in military and political studies, the
volume foregrounds less familiar narratives, subjects, and places.
Chapters recover the wartime experiences of individuals - including
women, children, members of minority ethnic groups, and colonial
subjects - whose stories do not fit easily into conventional
national war narratives. The contributors show how terms used to
delineate the conflict such as home front and battle front,
occupier and occupied, captor and prisoner, and friend and foe
became increasingly blurred as the war wore on. Above all, the
volume encourages reflection on whether this conflict really was a
"Peoples' War." Challenging the homogenizing narratives of the war
as a nationally unifying experience, The Peoples' War? seeks to
enrich our understanding of the Second World War as a global event.
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