The Cambridge History of the Second World War, Volume I: Fighting the War

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General introduction
evan mawdsley
The Second World War, terrible in its course and far-reaching in its
consequences, was the most complex event of the twentieth century. This
three-volume history of the global conflict brings together the work of an
international team of nearly eighty experts, men and women at different
stages in their careers, but with a level of scholarship that is consistently
first-class. A collection of substantial article-length chapters, the Cambridge
History of the Second World War (CHSWW) provides a comprehensive and
authoritative treatment of the war and its context.
As a large-scale collective history of the Second World War, the project is
ambitious and innovative, taking a comprehensive view of all aspects of the
conflict. The very broad scope of the CHSWW means that military operations
and diplomatic interaction can be considered alongside political, economic,
social and cultural developments. The historical context and legacy of the
war, up to the present day, are also fully considered. The CHSWW has been
written in the second decade of the twenty-first century and takes into
account changes in the configuration of world power and in the nature of
warfare. This vantage point also allows an approach to the history of the
Second World War which is less complicated by Nationalist or Cold War
polemics. Although the majority of the contributors are historians working in
Europe and North America, the perspective of the project is genuinely
global, in particular giving appropriate weight to the Asian participants in
the war.
There is no single self-evident way to package the vast subject of the Second
World War, and the arrangement of three volumes is inevitably arbitrary.
Nevertheless, the CHSWW has a broadly logical structure. Volume i, Fighting
the War, deals with the directly ‘military’ aspects of war. It includes chapters
discussing the national wartime strategies of the major states, which resulted
from geographical, political, economic and historical factors, and the specific

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