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ix, 638 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
"In popular memory, the Second World War was an unalloyed victory for freedom over totalitarianism, marking the demise of the age of empires and the triumph of an American-led democratic order. In Scorched Earth, historian Paul Thomas Chamberlin dispatches the myth of World War II as a good war. Instead, he depicts the conflict as it truly was: a massive battle beset by vicious racial atrocities, fought between rival empires across huge stretches of Asia and Europe. The war was sparked by German and Japanese invasions that threatened the old powers' dominance, not by Allied opposition to fascism. The Allies achieved victory not through pluck and democratic idealism but through savage firebombing raids on civilian targets and the slaughter of millions of Soviet soldiers. The Soviet Union and the United States emerged as hyper-militarized new imperial powers, each laying claim to former Axis holdings across the globe before turning on one another and triggering a forever war. Dramatically rendered and persuasively argued, Scorched Earth shows that World War II was the culmination of centuries of colonial violence and ushered in a new era of imperial struggle"--
A note on names -- Introduction: Unthinkable -- A world of empires -- Destroying the Versailles order -- A new order in East Asia -- Blood, soil, and empire -- Empire besieged -- Colonial ramparts -- A war of annihilation -- Japan's grand offensive -- The battle for ther periphery -- Rise of the superpowers -- The path to global hegmony -- Colonial interventions and continental slaughterhouses -- Planning the postwar world -- Cracking the co-prosperity sphere -- Overlord and the fate of the West Bagration and the fate of the East -- We can land anywhere -- Into the Reich The race to Berlin -- Staring into the mouth of hell -- Conclusion: Forever war -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 577-621) and index.