Thomas W. Zeiler is Professor of History and International Affairs at the University of Colorado, Boulder. The editor of the journal Diplomatic History and former president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, he is the author of Unconditional Defeat: Japan, America, and the End of World War II (2004), Ambassadors in Pinstripes: The Spalding World Baseball Tour and the Birth of the American Empire (2006), American Foreign Relations since 1600: A Guide to the Literature, Third Edition (2007), and Annihilation: A Global Military History of World War II (2010).Daniel M. DuBois is a doctoral candidate at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the assistant editor of the journal Diplomatic History.

“Even so, this is a minor quibble. Zeiler, an expert on Japanese American relations and World War II, and DuBois, a doctoral candidate at the University of Colorado–Boulder, have per­formed a real service for the field and are to be commended for their work.”  (The Journal of American History, 1 March 2014)“This would be an essential purchase for academic and special libraries with large humanities collections.”  (Reference Reviews, 1 November 2013)“There is no doubt that, taken as a whole, the Companion is full of first-class, historiographical and bibliographical information and insights. . . Accordingly one can unreservedly recommend it to all University and Departmental libraries as a reliable work of reference on the state of research into the Second World War.”  (Cercles, 1 December 2013)“This companion is destined to become a valuable contribution to the historiography of the war, and should find a welcome home in either the reference or general collection of any academic library.  Summing Up.  Essential.  All academic levels/libraries.”  (Choice, 1 September 2013)

• Volume 1Notes on Contributors xIntroduction 1Part I Roots of War 111 How a Second World War Happened 13Gerhard L. Weinberg2 The Versailles Peace Settlement and the Collective Security System 29Frédéric Dessberg3 The Great Depression 47John E. Moser4 Colonialism in Asia 63Christopher D. O’Sullivan5 Visionaries of Expansion 77R. J. B. Bosworth6 Soviet Planning for War, 1928–June 1941 91Alexander HillPart II Fighting the War 1037 Japanese Early Attack 105Brian P. Farrell8 War and Empire: The Transformation of Southern Asia 124Gary R. Hess9 CBI: A Historiographical Review 141Maochun Yu10 The German Assault, 1939–1941 154Robert M. Citino11 Militaries Compared: Wehrmacht and Red Army, 1941–1945 169Mark Edele12 The Bombers: The Strategic Bombing of Germany and Japan 186Randall Wakelam13 Scandinavian Campaigns 208Olli Vehviläinen14 The Naval War in the Mediterranean 222Barbara Brooks Tomblin15 Ocean War 243Ashley Jackson16 Maritime War: Combat, Management, and Memory 262Kevin Smith17 The Middle East and World War II 278Simon Davis18 The Western Front, 1944–1945 296Christopher R. Gabel19 Battle Fronts and Home Fronts: The War in the East from Stalingrad to Berlin 312Kenneth Slepyan20 German Defeat 333Neil Gregor21 Southwest Pacific 351Mark Roehrs22 The Military Occupations of World War II: A Historiography 368Nicholas Evan Sarantakes23 Ending the Pacific War: The New History 387Richard B. FrankPart III Multinational and Transnational Zones of Combat: Strategy 40324 Axis Coalition Building 405Richard L. DiNardo25 Strategies, Commands, and Tactics, 1939–1941 415Talbot C. Imlay26 British and American Strategic Planning 433Earl J. Catagnus, Jr.27 Wartime Conferences 448Mark A. Stoler28 The US War Against Japan: A Transnational Perspective 462Akira Iriye29 World War II and Communication Technologies 477James Schwoch30 Of Spies and Stratagems 482John Prados31 French African Soldiers in World War II 501Raffael Scheck32 Scientists and Nuclear Weapons in World War II: The Background, the Experience, and the Sometimes Contested Meanings and Analyses 516Barton J. Bernstein33 Civilians in the Combat Zone: Anglo-AmericanStrategic Bombing 549Sean L. MalloyVOLUME IINotes on Contributors xIntroduction 569Part IV Multinational and Transnational Zones of Combat: Society 57934 European Societies in Wartime 581Isabelle Davion35 Life in Plato’s Cave: Neutral Europe in World War II 603Neville Wylie36 Resistance in Eastern Europe 618Stephan Lehnstaedt37 Boomerang Resistance: German Émigrés in the US Army during World War II 638Patricia Kollander38 Beyond Impact: Toward a New Historiography of Africa and World War II 652Judith A. Byfield39 Race, Genocide, and Holocaust 666Jochen Böhler40 Holocaust and Genocide Today 685Yehuda Bauer41 Environmental Dimensions of World War II 698Jacob Darwin Hamblin42 The Women of World War II 717D’Ann Campbell43 Transnational Civil Rights during World War II 739Travis J. Hardy44 Global Culture and World War II 754M. Todd BennettPart V Homelands 77345 The Balkans in the Origins of World War II 775Marietta Stankova46 Poland’s Military in World War II 792Michael Alfred Peszke47 Resistance inside Nazi Germany 813Frank McDonough48 Occupied France: The Vichy Regime, Collaboration, and Resistance 825Julian Jackson49 The Italian Campaign 841Elena Agarossi50 US Foreign Policy, the Grand Alliance, and the Struggle for Indian Independence during the Pacific War 859Sarah Ellen Graham51 “P” Was for Plenty 875William H. Miller52 Generating American Combat Power in World War II 893Edward G. Miller53 American Anti-Semitism during World War II 909Stephen H. NorwoodPart VI A ftermath and Consequences 92754 War Crimes in Europe 929Christoph J. M. Safferling55 Anglo-American Postwar Planning 945Charlie Whitham56 The Cultural Legacy of World War II in Germany 962Susanne Vees-Gulani57 World War II in Historical Memory 978Marc Gallicchio58 The Place of World War II in Global History 999Gerhard L. WeinbergIndex 1013