num_pages: 332
description: "Gordon Wright's study is lucid, judicious, and enormously well-informed. In particular the chapter on the scientific dimension of the war and the concluding chapter on the overall impact of the war are the best treatments of these topics I have encountered anywhere."- H. Stuart Hughes"To the best of my knowledge, Professor Wright's book is the first attempt to explore this theme (the impetus of mass warfare in the Industrial Age) comprehensively, with an unusual command of Russian as well as western and German sources. It is a distinguished achievement which conveys a convincing picture of what total war means, or rather what it meant before the H-bomb added a new dimension."- Geoffrey Barraclough, The New York Review of BooksContentsI. Europe on the BrinkII. The Expansion of German PowerIII. The Broadening Scope of War: The Economic DimensionIV. The Broadening Scope of War: The Psychological DimensionV. The Broadening Scope of War: The Scientific DimensionVI. German Rule in Occupied EuropeVII. Europe's Response to Conquest: The Resistance MovementVIII. The Resurgence of Allied PowerIX. The Dislocation of the Nazi EmpireX. Preparation of the Postwar EraXI. The Impact of Total War
language: English
title: The Ordeal of Total War, 1939-1945
titlecomplete: The Ordeal of Total War, 1939-1945
genres: War, European History, Japan, Nonfiction, American History, Military History, Germany, Russia, History, World War II
ratings_count: 58
series: The Rise of Modern Europe
publisher: Harper & Row (NYC)