Examines the relationship between ideology and politics in the Second World War's origins, dynamics and consequences.
Introduction to Volume 2 Richard Bosworth and Joseph Maiolo; Part I. Ideologies: Introduction to Part I Richard Bosworth and Joseph Maiolo; 1. The Axis: Germany, Japan and Italy on the road to war Robert Gerwarth; 2. Western allied ideology, 1939-45 Talbot Imlay; 3. The Soviet Union and international left Silvio Pons; 4. The propaganda war Jo Fox; 5. Reporting from the battlefield: censorship and journalism Steven Casey; 6. International organizations Patricia Clavin; 7. Nazi genocides Jürgen Matthäus; 8. War crimes trials Donald Bloxham and Jonathan Waterlow; Part II. Diplomacy and Alliances: Introduction to Part II Richard Bosworth and Joseph Maiolo; 9. Europe: the failure of diplomacy, 1933-40 Peter Jackson; 10. Asia-Pacific: the failure of diplomacy, 1931-41 Peter Mauch; 11. The diplomacy of the Axis, 1940-41 Norman J. W. Goda; 12. The diplomacy of the Grand Alliance David Reynolds; 13. Spain: betting on a Nazi victory Paul Preston; 14. Sweden: negotiated neutrality Klas Åmark; Part III. Occupation, Collaboration, Resistance and Liberation: Introduction to Part III Richard Bosworth and Joseph Maiolo; 15. Wartime occupation by Germany: food and sex Nicholas Stargardt; 16. Collaboration, resistance and liberation in Western Europe William I. Hitchcock; 17. Wartime occupation by Italy Davide Rodogno; 18. Collaboration, resistance and liberation in the Balkans, 1941-45 Gregor Kranjc; 19. Soviet liberations and occupations, 1939-49 Mark Edele; 20. Collaboration, resistance and accommodation in Northeast Asia Margherita Zanasi; 21. Japanese occupation of Southeast Asia, 1941-45 Paul H. Kratoska and Ken'ichi Goto; 22. The British Empire, 1939-45 Ashley Jackson; 23. France and its colonial civil wars, 1940-45 Martin Thomas; 24. The Muslim world in the Second World War David Motodel; Bibliographical essays; Index.