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Title: Taste of War, The: World War II & the Battle for Food
Author: COLLINGHAM LIZZIE
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 28/03/2012
Imprint: PEN PRESS PUBLISHERS
Price: $36.00
Publishing status: Active
‘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’ Kathryn Hughes, Mail on Sunday
‘Ambitious, compelling, fascinating . . . uncomfortable reading if you began by believing in the possibility of a just war’ Guardian
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 Germany’s invasion of Russia, Pearl Harbour, and even contributed to the decision to murder hundreds of thousands of ‘useless eaters’ during the Holocaust.
‘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 my
ISBN: 9780141028972
Pages: 656