Food, and in particular the lack of it, was central to the experience of the Second World War. In this history, Lizzie Collingham establishes how control of food and its production is crucial to total war.
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.