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  title info:
    title: Scorched earth
    sub title: a global history of World War II
  name:
    name part: Chamberlin, Paul Thomas
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 638 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
  abstract: "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"--
  table of contents: 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.
  note: Paul Thomas Chamberlin.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 577-621) and index.
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
  subject:
    topic: Imperialism
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945
  subject:
    topic: Impérialisme
    topic: Histoire
    temporal: 20e siècle
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / World
  classification: D743 .C426 2025
  classification: 940.53
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Scorched earth
    name:
      name part: Chamberlin, Paul Thomas.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Basic Books, 2025
      edition: First edition.
    identifier: (DLC) 2024035651
  identifier: 9781541619265
  identifier: 1541619269
  identifier: 9781541619289
  identifier: 2024035650
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 250121
    record change date: 20250804165024.3
    record identifier: in00005655944
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng