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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Collingham, E. M. (Elizabeth M.)     Subjects     World War, 1939-1945 -- Food supply.     Food supply -- History -- 20th century.     Food security -- History -- 20th century.     Nutrition policy -- History -- 20th century.     Starvation -- History -- 20th century.     Food habits -- History -- 20th century.     War and society -- History -- 20th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Collingham, E. M. (Elizabeth M.)       by title:      The taste of war : W...         MARC Display

The taste of war : World War II and the battle for food / Lizzie Collingham. by Collingham, E. M. (Elizabeth M.) New York : Penguin Press, 2012. Subjects World War, 1939-1945 -- Food supply.   Food supply -- History -- 20th century.   Food security -- History -- 20th century.   Nutrition policy -- History -- 20th century.   Starvation -- History -- 20th century.   Food habits -- History -- 20th century.   War and society -- History -- 20th century. ISBN:  9781594203299 (hbk.) : 1594203296 Description:  xv, 634 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. Edition:  1st American ed. Contents:  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 -- Contents -- 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 -- Contents -- 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 -- Contents -- 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. Requests:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii Kai Public Library Adult Nonfiction 940.531 Co Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 940.531 Co Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 940.531 Collingham Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kailua Public Library Adult Nonfiction 940.531 Co Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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