This volume presents the results of a conference on the history of total war.

World War I was the first large-scale industrialized military conflict, and it led to the concept of total war. The essays in this volume analyze the experience

An authoritative illustrated history of World War II complemented by artifacts and stories of those who lived through it from across the globe. Total War is an

The essays in this collection, the fourth in a series on the problem of total war, examine the inter-war period.

What is total war? Definitions abound, but one thing is certain—the concept of total war has come to be seen as a defining concept of the modern age. In The A