Screen LibraryThe taste of war：World War II and the battle for food
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Penguin Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2012. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xv, 634 p.: ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9781594203299 (cloth) 1594203296 |
| Index Number: | K152 |
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K152 E712.44 |
| Call Number: | K152/C711 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 581-620) and index. 1. War and food -- pt. I. Food, an engine of war. 2. Germany's quest for empire : From wheat to meat ; Defeat, hunger and the legacy of the First World War ; Autarky and Lebensraum ; Herbert Backe and the hunger plan ; Genocide in the East -- 3. Japan's quest for empire : A radical answer to rural crisis ; One million households in Manchuria ; From Nanjing to Pearl Harbor -- pt. II. The battle for food. 4. American boom -- 5. Feeding Britain : From meat to bread and potatoes ; American dried egg and Argentinian corned beef -- 6. The battle of the Atlantic : The worst winter of the war ; The Food, and in particular the lack of it, was central to the experience of World War II. In this richly detailed history, Lizzie Collingham establishes how control of food and its production is crucial to total war. Tracing the interaction between food and strategy, on both the military and home fronts, Collingham demonstrates how access to food was a driving force within Nazi policy and contributed to the decision to murder hundreds of thousands of "useless eaters," and brings to light the fact that famine was not only caused by Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, but was also the result of Alli |