Rethinking History, Dictatorship and War Book

Foreword ix

Notes on Contributors xi

1 History, Dictatorship and War: A Conversation Richard J. Overy 1

Part I The Way History is or Ought to be Written 25

2 Mapping the World: Richard Overy and The Times Atlas of World History Jeremy Black 27

3 Martin Spahn, Hilaire Belloc and the Rise of Fascism: Fellow Travellers of a New 'Political Religion'? Ulrike Ehret 39

4 Regional History, Nazism and the Holocaust Claus-Christian W. Szejnmann 55

5 Denning Human Security: Roads to War and Peace, 1918-45 Patricia Clavin 69

Part II The Nature of Dictatorship 85

6 Napoleon's France: A Forerunner of Europe's Twentieth-Century Dictatorships? Michael Rowe 87

7 Captured by the Nazis: 'Reciprocity' and 'National Conservatism' in German Policy towards British POWs Neville Wylie 107

8 How Soviet was Russian Society under Nazi Occupation? Nicholas Terry 125

Part III War 143

9 Why the Allies Won the Air War, 1939-45 Philip Sabin 145

10 Bearing the Load: A Fresh Approach to Bomber Command Nick Chapman 161

11 The British Army as a Social Institution, 1939-45 Jeremy A. Crang 175

12 The British Security Forces and the Jews in Palestine, 1945-48 David Cesarani 191

13 Air Power Lessons Learnt and Not Learnt: The Royal Air Force and the Gulf War, 1990-91 Sebastian Ritchie 211

Notes 227

Index 267