The taste of war
Subtitle: World War Two and the battle for food
By: Lizzie Collingham
Publisher: Penguin Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 634
ISBN-13: 9781594203299
Subjects: Food security; Nutrition policy; Food habits; Food supply; World War, 1939-1945; War and society; Starvation; History
Other titles: World War Two and the battle for food
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: War and food; title: Food, an engine of war; title: Germany's quest for empire; title: From wheat to meat; title: Defeat, hunger and the legacy of the First World War; title: Autarky and Lebensraum; title: Herbert Backe and the hunger plan; title: Genocide in the East; title: Japan's quest for empire; title: A radical answer to rural crisis; title: One million households in Manchuria; title: From Nanjing to Pearl Harbor; title: Contents; title: The battle for food; title: American boom; title: Feeding Britain; title: From meat to bread and potatoes; title: American dried egg and Argentinian corned beef; title: The battle of the Atlantic; title: The worst winter of the war; title: The American lifeline; title: Frozen meat versus men and arms victory in the Atlantic; title: Mobilizing the British Empire; title: The Middle East supply centre; title: Profiteering in East Africa; title: West Africa and the dollar deficit; title: The Bengal famine; title: Feeding Germany; title: The battle for production; title: The occupation of western Europe; title: Greek famine and Belgian resilience; title: Allies and aryans; title: Germany exports hunger to the east; title: Living off the land; title: Implementing the hunger plan; title: The food crisis of 1941-42; title: The holocaust in Poland; title: Food confiscation in the Ukraine; title: Soviet collapse; title: Contents; title: Japan's journey towards starvation; title: Rice and sweet potatoes; title: Chaos and hunger in the empire; title: China divided; title: Nationalist collapse; title: Communist survival; title: The politics of food; title: Japan - starving for the Emperor; title: Healthy eating as a patriotic virtue; title: Churchill's rations; title: The American blockade; title: Guadalcanal; title: New Guinea; title: Burma; title: Hunger on the home islands; title: Surrender; title: The Soviet Union - Fighting on empty; title: Feeding the Red Army; title: Feeding the cities; title: The american lifeline; title: Perseverance despite hunger; title: Germany and Britain - two approaches to entitlement; title: 1930s Britain - a nutritional divide; title: 1930s Germany - the campaign for nutritional freedom; title: The politics of rationing; title: Feeding the British working classes; title: Feeding the German war machine; title: The black market; title: The German cities - hungry but not starving; title: Contents; title: The British Empire - war as welfare; title: Dr. Carrot - guarding the British nation's health; title: Closing the nutritional gap; title: Health and morale - the Army Catering Corps; title: Fighting on bully beef and biscuits; title: Porridge, peas and vitamins; title: Nutritional reconditioning; title: The Indian Army; title: The United States - out of depression and into abundance; title: The "good war"; title: Future hopes; title: Troop welfare; title: Australia - food processing for victory; title: Feeding Pacific Islanders; title: The aftermath; title: A hungry world; title: A world of plenty; title: American plenty versus European relief; title: A vision for the future; title: The shape of the post-war food world; title: The rise of the new consumer; title: A selective chronology of the Second World War.