3 Building an Enemy

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. In Search of a New History of the Second World War 3
4. Problematizing “People’s Wars”
5. World War, Worldwide Mobilization 19
6. Mobilization and Remobilization for “People’s Wars”
7. Fascist Warfare on the Home Front 45
8. Building an Enemy 71
9. Growing Up in Kaifeng 90
10. “What the Soldier Thinks” 113
11. “People’s Wars”as Drivers of Change
12. Health Care and Disease in Italy’s War,1940–1945 135
13. The Second World War and the New Deal for American Science 162
14. Edward Murrow and the “Little People”of the Blitz 185
15. Wars among the People
16. German Anti-partisan Warfare 207
17. Italian Occupation Policies and Counterinsurgency Campaigns in France and in the Balkans, 1940–1943 230
18. Divided Loyalties 251
19. Spawning Fratricide 276
20. Gender and Community during War 300
21. The History and Memory of “People’s Wars”
22. Framing Myths of the Second World War through Ministry of Information Propaganda Posters 327
23. Beyond a “People’s Wars” 353
24. Contributors 377
25. Index 383