The Taste of War

Informationen zum Autor Lizzie Collingham is the author of Imperial Bodies: The Physical Experience of the Raj and Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors ! hailed by William Dalrymple as 'scholarly! accessible and above all utterly original'. Having taught History at Warwick University she became a Research Fellow at Jesus College! Cambridge. She is now an independent scholar and writer. She has lived in Australia! France and Germany and now lives near Cambridge with her husband and daughter. Klappentext Subtitled! "World War Two & The Battle For Food". A major new history looking at the importance of food to who won the war! how they won it! and what we eat today. Now in paperback. Zusammenfassung Shows how food - and its lack - was central to the war's causes and continuation. This title explores how starvation was often a deliberate governmental policy, and reveals how the necessity of feeding whole countries leads to Pearl Harbour, Germany's invasion of Russia, and the Holocaust itself.

Product details

• Authors: Lizzie Collingham, Collingham Lizzie
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 26.01.2012
• EAN: 9780141028972
• ISBN: 978-0-14-102897-2
• No. of pages: 672
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 198 mm x 31 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book; Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food, General & world history, Food & society, Social and cultural history, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), General and world history, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Cultural studies: food and society