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The Taste of War: World War Two and the Battle for Food
Lizzie Collingham
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Description for The Taste of War: World War Two and the Battle for Food
Paperback. Shows how food - and its lack - was central to the war's causes and continuation. This title explores how starvation was often a deliberate governmental policy, and reveals how the necessity of feeding whole countries leads to Pearl Harbour, Germany's invasion of Russia, and the Holocaust itself. Num Pages: 656 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports. BIC Classification: 3JJH; HBG; HBTB; HBWQ; JFCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 197 x 30. Weight in Grams: 462.
In World War Two, 19 million people died in the conflicts across the globe. Yet in those same years, more than 20 million died from starvation and malnutrition. In The Taste of War Lizzie Collingham shows how food - and its lack - was central to the war's causes and continuation. She explores how starvation was often a deliberate governmental policy, and reveals how the necessity of feeding whole countries lead to Pearl Harbour, Germany's invasion of Russia, and the Holocaust itself.
In World War Two, 19 million people died in the conflicts across the globe. Yet in those same years, more than 20 million died from starvation and malnutrition. In The Taste of War Lizzie Collingham shows how food - and its lack - was central to the war's causes and continuation. She explores how starvation was often a deliberate governmental policy, and reveals how the necessity of feeding whole countries lead to Pearl Harbour, Germany's invasion of Russia, and the Holocaust itself.
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
656
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
672
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141028972
SKU
V9780141028972
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About Lizzie Collingham
Lizzie Collingham is the author of Imperial Bodies: The Physical Experience of the Raj and Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors, hailed by William Dalrymple as 'scholarly, accessible and above all utterly original'. Having taught History at Warwick University she became a Research Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge. She is now an independent scholar and writer. She has lived in Australia, France and Germany and now lives near Cambridge with her husband and daughter.
Reviews for The Taste of War: World War Two and the Battle for Food
Remarkable, powerful
The Times
Amazing... she makes it impossible to think of the war in the old terms
Daily Mail
Fascinating, shocking ... For anyone who thought that the subject of food in the Second World War could be dispatched with a few clichés about digging for victory
Mail on Sunday
Ambitious, compelling, fascinating... uncomfortable reading if you began by believing in the possibility of a just war
Guardian
This fascinating calorie-centric history of the greatest conflict in world history is wholly convincing
Andrew Roberts A powerful and important book... One of the beauties of this book is its savage unpicking of cherished myths
Independent
Lizzie Collingham's book possesses the notable virtue of originality...[She] has gathered many strands to pursue an important theme across a global canvas. She reminds us of the timeless truth that all human and political behaviour is relative
Max Hastings The great merits of [this] book...lie in its extraordinary range...and in the entirely new perspective it throws on the Second World War
Bernard Potter
London Review of Books
The Times
Amazing... she makes it impossible to think of the war in the old terms
Daily Mail
Fascinating, shocking ... For anyone who thought that the subject of food in the Second World War could be dispatched with a few clichés about digging for victory
Mail on Sunday
Ambitious, compelling, fascinating... uncomfortable reading if you began by believing in the possibility of a just war
Guardian
This fascinating calorie-centric history of the greatest conflict in world history is wholly convincing
Andrew Roberts A powerful and important book... One of the beauties of this book is its savage unpicking of cherished myths
Independent
Lizzie Collingham's book possesses the notable virtue of originality...[She] has gathered many strands to pursue an important theme across a global canvas. She reminds us of the timeless truth that all human and political behaviour is relative
Max Hastings The great merits of [this] book...lie in its extraordinary range...and in the entirely new perspective it throws on the Second World War
Bernard Potter
London Review of Books