The Shadows of Total War
Europe, East Asia, and the United States, 1919–1939

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Contributors
Introduction Roger Chickering and Stig Forster
Part I. Reflections on the Inter-war Period:
1. The politics of war and peace in the 1920s and 1930s Gerhard L. Weinberg
2. War and society in the 1920s and 1930s Hew Strachan
3. Plans, weapons, doctrines: the strategic cultures of interwar Europe Dennis E. Showalter
Part II. Legacies of the Great War:
4. Religious socialism, peace pacifism: the case of Paul Tillich Hartmut Lehmann
5. No more peace: the militarisation of politics James M. Diehl
6. The war's returns: disabled veterans in Britain and Germany, 1914–39 Deborah Cohen
7. The impact of total war on the practice of British psychiatry Edgar Jones and Simon Wessely
Part III. Visions of the Next War:
8. Sore loser: Ludendorff's total war Roger Chickering
9. Strangelove, or how Ernst Jünger learned to love total war Thomas Rohkrämer
10. Shadows of total war in French and British military journals, 1918–39 Timo Baumann and Daniel Marc Segesser
11. Yesterday's battles and future war: the German official military history, 1918–39 Markus Pöhlmann
12. 'The study of the distant past is futile': American reflections on new military frontiers Bernd Greiner
Part IV. Projections and Practice:
13. 'Not by law but by sentiment': Great Britain and imperial defense, 1918–39 Benedikt Stuchtey
14. 'Blitzkrieg' or total war? War preparations in Nazi Germany Wilhelm Deist
15. The Condor Legion: an instrument of total war? Klaus A. Maier
16. Stalinism as total social war Hans-Heinrich Nolte
17. Total colonial warfare: Ethiopia Giulia Brogini Künzi
18. Japan's wartime empire in China Louise Young
Index.

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