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War and food
Food, an engine of war
Germany's quest for empire
From wheat to meat
Defeat, hunger and the legacy of the First World War
Autarky and Lebensraum
Herbert Backe and the hunger plan
Genocide in the East
Japan's quest for empire
A radical answer to rural crisis
One million households in Manchuria
From Nanjing to Pearl Harbor
The battle for food
American boom
Feeding Britain
From meat to bread and potatoes
American dried egg and Argentinian corned beef
The battle of the Atlantic
The worst winter of the war
The American lifeline
Frozen meat versus men and arms
Victory in the Atlantic
Mobilizing the British Empire
The Middle East supply centre
Profiteering in East Africa
West Africa and the dollar deficit
The Bengal famine
Feeding Germany
The battle for production
The occupation of western Europe
Greek famine and Belgian resilience
Allies and aryans
Germany exports hunger to the east
Living off the land
Implementing the hunger plan
The food crisis of 1941-42
The holocaust in Poland
Food confiscation in the Ukraine
Soviet collapse
Japan's journey towards starvation
Rice and sweet potatoes
Chaos and hunger in the empire
China divided
Nationalist collapse
Communist survival
The politics of food
Japan
Starving for the Emperor
Healthy eating as a patriotic virtue
Churchill's rations
The American blockade
Guadalcanal
New Guinea
Burma
Hunger on the home islands
Surrender
The Soviet Union
Fighting on empty
Feeding the Red Army
Feeding the cities
The American lifeline
Perseverance despite hunger
Germany and Britain
Two approaches to entitlement
1930s Britain
A nutritional divide
1930s Germany
The campaign for nutritional freedom
The politics of rationing
Feeding the British working classes
Feeding the German war machine
The black market
The German cities
Hungry but not starving
The British Empire
War as welfare
Dr. Carrot
Guarding the British nation's health
Closing the nutritional gap
Health and morale
The Army Catering Corps
Fighting on bully beef and biscuits
Porridge, peas and vitamins
Nutritional reconditioning
the Indian Army
The United States
Out of depression and into abundance
The "good war"
Future hopes
Troop welfare
Australia
Food processing for victory
Feeding Pacific Islanders
The aftermath
A hungry world
A world of plenty
American plenty versus European relief
A vision for the future
The shape of the post-war food world
The rise of the new consumer
A selective chronology of the Second World War.
Food, an engine of war
Germany's quest for empire
From wheat to meat
Defeat, hunger and the legacy of the First World War
Autarky and Lebensraum
Herbert Backe and the hunger plan
Genocide in the East
Japan's quest for empire
A radical answer to rural crisis
One million households in Manchuria
From Nanjing to Pearl Harbor
The battle for food
American boom
Feeding Britain
From meat to bread and potatoes
American dried egg and Argentinian corned beef
The battle of the Atlantic
The worst winter of the war
The American lifeline
Frozen meat versus men and arms
Victory in the Atlantic
Mobilizing the British Empire
The Middle East supply centre
Profiteering in East Africa
West Africa and the dollar deficit
The Bengal famine
Feeding Germany
The battle for production
The occupation of western Europe
Greek famine and Belgian resilience
Allies and aryans
Germany exports hunger to the east
Living off the land
Implementing the hunger plan
The food crisis of 1941-42
The holocaust in Poland
Food confiscation in the Ukraine
Soviet collapse
Japan's journey towards starvation
Rice and sweet potatoes
Chaos and hunger in the empire
China divided
Nationalist collapse
Communist survival
The politics of food
Japan
Starving for the Emperor
Healthy eating as a patriotic virtue
Churchill's rations
The American blockade
Guadalcanal
New Guinea
Burma
Hunger on the home islands
Surrender
The Soviet Union
Fighting on empty
Feeding the Red Army
Feeding the cities
The American lifeline
Perseverance despite hunger
Germany and Britain
Two approaches to entitlement
1930s Britain
A nutritional divide
1930s Germany
The campaign for nutritional freedom
The politics of rationing
Feeding the British working classes
Feeding the German war machine
The black market
The German cities
Hungry but not starving
The British Empire
War as welfare
Dr. Carrot
Guarding the British nation's health
Closing the nutritional gap
Health and morale
The Army Catering Corps
Fighting on bully beef and biscuits
Porridge, peas and vitamins
Nutritional reconditioning
the Indian Army
The United States
Out of depression and into abundance
The "good war"
Future hopes
Troop welfare
Australia
Food processing for victory
Feeding Pacific Islanders
The aftermath
A hungry world
A world of plenty
American plenty versus European relief
A vision for the future
The shape of the post-war food world
The rise of the new consumer
A selective chronology of the Second World War.