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Mobilization for Total War

The Canadian, American and British Experience 1914-1918, 1939-1945

by (author) N.F. Dreisziger

Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Initial publish date
Jan 2006
Category
General, World War II, World War I
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780889208261
    Publish Date
    Jan 2006
    List Price
    $32.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781554584642
    Publish Date
    Oct 1981
    List Price
    $32.95

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The two World Wars placed unprecedented demands on their participants and had a profound impact on many aspects of national life. The mobilization of human and material resources for total war by three nations in the twentieth century was discussed at the Seventh Royal Military College Military History Symposium in March 1980. In this volume of essays from the Symposium, Arthur Marwick offers a general overview of the problems and consequences of organizing society for total war, while other contributors examine such specific themes as mobilizing international finance for the First World WTar (Kathleen Burk), organizing Canadian war production in World War I and World War II (Michael Bliss and Robert Bothwell, respectively), the political implications of organizing American society for war from 1917 to 1945 (Robert Cuff), and the establishment and expansion of wartime British intelligence services in the two World Wars (Christopher Andrew).

The essays will be of interest to historians, political scientists, professional soldiers, and readers interested in the story of the two World Wars and the social and cultural aspects of those conflicts.

About the author

Nándor F. Dreisziger is a professor of history at the Royal Military College of Canada. He is the author of Hungary’s Way to World War II and Struggle and Hope: The Hungarian-Canadian Experience, as well as of articles in the Journal of Modern History, the Canadian Historical Papers, East European Quarterly, and other scholarly journals.

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