The Taste of War · World War Two and the Battle for Food by Collingham, Lizzie -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Dedication Contents List of Illustrations Note on Sources Maps The Taste of War

1 Introduction – War and Food PART I: Food – An Engine of War

2 Germany’s Quest for Empire

FROM WHEAT TO MEAT DEFEAT, HUNGER AND THE LEGACY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR AUTARKY AND LEBENSRAUM HERBERT BACKE AND THE HUNGER PLAN GENOCIDE IN THE EAST

3 Japan’s Quest for Empire

A RADICAL ANSWER TO RURAL CRISIS ONE MILLION HOUSEHOLDS IN MANCHURIA FROM NANJING TO PEARL HARBOR

PART II: The Battle for Food

4 American Boom 5 Feeding Britain

FROM MEAT TO BREAD AND POTATOES AMERICAN DRIED EGG AND ARGENTINIAN CORNED BEEF

6 The Battle of the Atlantic

THE WORST WINTER OF THE WAR THE AMERICAN LIFELINE FROZEN MEAT VERSUS MEN AND ARMS VICTORY IN THE ATLANTIC

7 Mobilizing the British Empire

THE MIDDLE EAST SUPPLY CENTRE PROFITEERING IN EAST AFRICA WEST AFRICA AND THE DOLLAR DEFICIT THE BENGAL FAMINE

8 Feeding Germany

THE BATTLE FOR PRODUCTION THE OCCUPATION OF WESTERN EUROPE GREEK FAMINE AND BELGIAN RESIlieNCE ALLIES AND ARYANS

9 Germany Exports Hunger to the East

LIVING OFF THE LAND IMPLEMENTING THE HUNGER PLAN THE FOOD CRISIS OF 1941–42 THE HOLOCAUST in poland FOOD CONFISCATION IN THE UKRAINE

10 Soviet Collapse 11 Japan’s Journey towards Starvation

RICE AND SWEET POTATOES CHAOS AND HUNGER IN THE EMPIRE

12 China Divided

NATIONALIST COLLAPSE COMMUNIST SURVIVAL

PART III: The Politics of Food

13 Japan – Starving for the Emperor

HEALTHY EATING AS A PATRIOTIC VIRTUE CHURCHILL’S RATIONS THE AMERICAN BLOCKADE GUADALCANAL NEW GUINEA BURMA HUNGER ON THE HOME ISLANDS SURRENDER

14 The Soviet Union – Fighting on Empty

FEEDING THE RED ARMY FEEDING THE CITIES THE AMERICAN LIFELINE PERSEVERANCE DESPITE HUNGER

15 Germany and Britain – Two Approaches to Entitlement

1930S BRITAIN – A NUTRITIONAL DIVIDE 1930S GERMANY – THE CAMPAIGN FOR NUTRITIONAL FREEDOM THE POLITICS OF RATIONING FEEDING THE BRITISH WORKING CLASSES FEEDING THE GERMAN WAR MACHINE THE BLACK MARKET THE GERMAN CITIES – HUNGRY BUT NOT STARVING

16 The British Empire – War as Welfare

DR CARROT – GUARDING THE BRITISH NATION’S HEALTH CLOSING THE NUTRITIONAL GAP HEALTH AND MORALE – THE ARMY CATERING CORPS FIGHTING ON BULLY BEEF AND BISCUITS PORRIDGE, PEAS AND VITAMINS NUTRITIONAL RECONDITIONING – THE INDIAN ARMY

17 The United States – Out of Depression and into Abundance

THE ‘GOOD WAR’ FUTURE HOPES TROOP WELFARE AUSTRALIA – FOOD PROCESSING FOR VICTORY FEEDING PACIFIC ISLANDERS

PART IV: The Aftermath

18 A Hungry World 19 A World of Plenty

AMERICAN PLENTY VERSUS EUROPEAN RELIEF A VISION FOR THE FUTURE THE SHAPE OF THE POST-WAR FOOD WORLD THE RISE OF THE NEW CONSUMER

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