Rethinking History, Dictatorship and War: New Approaches and Interpretations

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-266) and index. Table of Contents: Foreword -- Notes on Contributors -- 1. History, Dictatorship and War: A Conversation / Richard J. Overy -- Part I. The Way History is or Ought to be Written -- 2. Mapping the World: Richard Overy and The Times Atlas of World History / Jeremy Black -- 3. Martin Spahn, Hilaire Belloc and the Rise of Fascism: Fellow Travellers of a New 'Political Religion'? / Ulrike Ehret -- 4. Regional History, Nazism and the Holocaust / Claus-Christian W. Szejnmann -- 5. Denning Human Security: Roads to War and Peace, 1918-45 / Patricia Clavin -- Part II. The Nature of Dictatorship -- 6. Napoleon's France: A Forerunner of Europe's Twentieth-Century Dictatorships? / Michael Rowe -- 7. Captured by the Nazis: 'Reciprocity' and 'National Conservatism' in German Policy towards British POWs / Neville Wylie -- 8. How Soviet was Russian Society under Nazi Occupation? / Nicholas Terry -- Part III. War -- 9. Why the Allies Won the Air War, 1939-45 / Philip Sabin -- 10. Bearing the Load: A Fresh Approach to Bomber Command / Nick Chapman -- 11. The British Army as a Social Institution, 1939-45 / Jeremy A. Crang -- 12. The British Security Forces and the Jews in Palestine, 1945-48 / David Cesarani -- 13. Air Power Lessons Learnt and Not Learnt: The Royal Air Force and the Gulf War, 1990-91 / Sebastian Ritchie -- Notes -- Index. Publisher Marketing: This collection deals with three of the most important themes of historical studies: the way history is or ought to be written, the nature of dictatorships, and the nature of wars. Contributor Bio:  Szejnmann, Claus-Christian Prof Claus-Christian Szejnmann is Professor of History in the Department of Politics, International Relations and European Studies at the University of Loughborough. He is the co-editor (together with Olaf Jensen) of The Holocaust in Contexts series (Palgrave).