The taste of war : World War II and the battle for food
(2012)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
940.531/COLLINGHAM,L

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 940.531/COLLINGHAM,L Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Penguin Press, 2012
EDITION
First American edition
DESCRIPTION

xv, 634 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781594203299, 1594203296, 1594203296 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

War and food -- Food, an engine of war -- 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 -- Japan's quest for empire -- A radical answer to rural crisis -- One million households in Manchuria -- From Nanjing to Pearl Harbor -- Contents -- The battle for food -- American boom -- Feeding Britain -- From meat to bread and potatoes -- American dried egg and Argentinian corned beef -- The battle of the Atlantic -- The worst winter of the war -- The American lifeline -- Frozen meat versus men and arms -- Victory in the Atlantic -- Mobilizing the British Empire -- The Middle East supply centre -- Profiteering in East Africa -- West Africa and the dollar deficit -- The Bengal famine -- Feeding Germany -- The battle for production -- The occupation of western Europe -- Greek famine and Belgian resilience -- Allies and aryans -- 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 -- Soviet collapse -- Japan's journey towards starvation -- Rice and sweet potatoes -- Chaos and hunger in the empire -- China divided -- Nationalist collapse -- Communist survival -- The politics of food -- 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 -- The Soviet Union, fighting on empty -- Feeding the Red Army -- Feeding the cities -- The American lifeline -- Perseverance despite hunger -- 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 -- 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 -- The United States, out of depression and into abundance -- The "good war" -- Future hopes -- Troop welfare -- Australia, food processing for victory -- Feeding Pacific Islanders -- The aftermath -- A hungry world -- 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 -- A selective chronology of the Second World War

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