The Taste of War · World War Two and the Battle for Food
- Authors
- Collingham, Lizzie
- Publisher
- Allen Lane
- Tags
- history
- ISBN
- 9780713999648
- Date
- 2011-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 1.86 MB
- Lang
- en
Shows 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, this title demonstrates how the issue of access to food was a driving force within Nazi policy and contributed to the decision to murder hundreds of thousands of 'useless eaters' in Europe.