A world at total war : global conflict and the politics of destruction, 1937-1945 / edited by Roger Chickering, Stig For̈ster, Bernd Greiner.

Results of a fifth conference on the history total war held in Aug. 2001, in Hamburg.

Are we there yet? World War II and the theory of total war / Roger Chickering and Stig For̈ster -- Total war : the global dimensions of conflict / Gerhard L. Weinberg -- Total war : the conduct of war, 1939-1945 / Hew Strachan -- The ultimate horror : reflections on total war and genocide / Stig For̈ster and Myriam Gessler -- Germany and the battle of the Atlantic / Holger H. Herwig -- From "Blitzkrieg" to "total war" : Germany's war in Europe / Jur̈gen For̈ster -- Global yet not total : the U.S. war effort and its consequences / Dennis Showalter -- The USSR and total war : why didn't the Soviet economy collapse in 1942? / Mark Harrison -- Blood, sweat, and tears : British mobilization for World War II / Stephen Broadberry and Peter Howlett -- The impact of compulsory labor on German society at war / Hans Mommsen -- Fantasy, reality, and modes of perception in Ludendorff's and Goebbel's concepts of "total war" / Martin Kutz -- The home front in "total war" : women in Germany and Britain in the Second World War / Jill Stephenson -- Women in the Soviet war effort, 1941-1945 / John Barber -- The Spirit of St. Louis : mobilizing American politics and society, 1937-1945 / Bernd Greiner --Partisan war in Belorussia, 1941-1944 / Hans-Heinrich Nolte -- Allied bombing and the destruction of German cities / Richard Overy -- "Accidental judgments, casual slaughters" : Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and total war / Robert L. Messer -- Sexual violence and its prosecution by courts martial of the Wehrmacht / Birgit Beck -- Ideologies of difference and the turn to atrocity : Japan's war on China / Louise Young -- On the road to total retribution? The international debate on the punishment of war crimes, 1872-1945 / Daniel Marc Segesser -- Total war : some concluding reflections / Michael Howard.