The great cat and dog massacre
Subtitle: the real story of World War Two's unknown tragedy
By: Hilda Kean
Series: Animal lives; Animal lives (University of Chicago. Press)
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9780226318325
Subjects: Animals; Animal welfare; World War, 1939-1945; Human-animal relationships; Food supply; History
Other titles: Great cat and dog massacre :
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-225) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introducing animals, historians, and the "people's war"; title: Being a pet in the 1920s and 1930s: a chronicle of a massacre foretold?; title: September 1939: no human panic. 400,000 animals killed in four days; title: Disrupting previous stories: a phony war for whom?; title: Building cross-species experience: eating and food in war; title: Blurring the boundaries: who is going to ground? who is protecting whom?; title: The growing strength of animal-human families and the wartime state; title: Emotion, utility, morale on the home front: animal-human relationships; title: Conclusion: change and continuity, remembering and forgetting; title: Animals during the Second World War.