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"Ambitious, compelling, fascinating." — THE GUARDIAN (UK)"Every now and again a book comes along that tranforms our understanding of a subject that had previously seemed so well-worn and familiar. That is the measure of LIzzie Collingham's achievement in this outstanding global account of the role played by food (and its absense) during the Second World War. It will now be impossible to think of the war in the old way." — Richard Overy, LITERARY REVIEW"Fascinating... After this book, no historian will be able to write a comprehensive history of the Second World War without putting the multifarious issues of food production and consumption centre stage."  — Andrew Roberts, FINANCIAL TIMES"Lizzie Collingham's book possesses the notable virtue of originality... [She] has gathered many strands to pursue an important theme across a global canvas. She reminds us of the timeless truth that all human and political behaviour is relative." — Max Hastings, THE SUNDAY TIMES“An important, original contribution” — Booklist“A definitive work of World War II scholarship.” — Kirkus

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About the Author

Lizzie Collingham is the author of Imperial Bodies: The Physical Experience of the Raj and Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors. 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 small daughter.

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Product details

Paperback: 672 pages

Publisher: Penguin Books; Reprint edition (July 30, 2013)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0143123017

ISBN-13: 978-0143123019

Product Dimensions:

5.6 x 1.5 x 8.5 inches

Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

4.3 out of 5 stars

54 customer reviews

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#453,277 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

I'd looked forward to reading this book for years, upon trusted recommendations. And the lens chosen to examine the war is fascinating -- the role of food supplies in keeping armies and civilian workers fully in the fignt (or using food as a weapon in occupied territories.)The problem is that I have seldom if ever encountered a book so riddled with glaring, basic factual errors -- whoppers, in many cases. It boggles the imagination that this has gone through several editions, presumably with editors.Random sampling: rampant confusion with dates (British blockade begins in August of 1940, so apparently, in May of 1940, in response, German officials started streamlining agricultural production. Huh?)FDR apparently had a Ministry of Agriculture (and War Ministry) and ag policy was set by the Agriculture Minister.US and British troops faced the Wehrmact in North Africa -- and never again until Normany. Try telling that to the troops that fought in Sicily and Italy.And on and on. Fascinating as many of the insights appear to be, with that kind of terrible rigor, I have no idea if anything else in the book is even accurate.

I concur with the author's premise that the role of food in war has been largely overlooked by historians. My own research focused on the U.S. Food Administration in World War I and thus I eagerly purchased this study, especially since it received many positive reviews. I offer a contrarian review to those that offer such praise. It is a very tough book to read and I doubt that many made it through each and every page. It contains a lot of interesting and important information, but falls short in several respects: 1) the author it tries to cover too much ground and in doing so is very shallow in many sections; 2) It is literally all over the map - in one section you will travel to a variety of locations impacted by the war and flit back and forth between years and events, including the pre and post-war periods. An overarching summary, including maps and charts, of the pre-war production and flow of food (wheat, sugar, and meat) would have helped immensely; 3) The final section of the book includes advocacy for some sort of world council that supersedes national governments to control the production and distribution of food to overcome what the author perceives as two major problems - 1) climate change (I assume caused by global warming) and 2) over consumption in the United States and some other western societies. I do not now why such advocacy is included in a book about food in World War II, but as stated earlier, this book is all over the map. To support this contemporary recommendation the author refers to World War I (not II) and claims that the world learned then that free markets don't work during wartime in regard to food production and distribution and therefore links that conclusion to our current situation (global warming/climate change). The problem with this assertion is that it is simply not accurate. During World War I, the Wilson administration and the U.S. Food Administration (led by Herbert Hoover) did not supersede the free market because it wasn't working properly. Instead they did so because they and others assumed it would not fulfill wartime demands. That is a difference with an important distinction. Food prices began to rise sharply in the United States as a result of a worldwide crop failure in wheat in 1916 due to poor weather (not caused by global warming). The 1915 wheat crop in the United States entailed a record setting yield by a large margin (exceeding domestic requirements by 66 percent). The prior record was set by the 1914 crop. But Hoover blamed the price spikes in that occurred following the poor crop of 1916 on speculators and and succeeded in replacing the system that existed with one controlled by the U.S. Food Administration, which was formally created in August 1917. But in 1917 the United States wheat crop once again fell well short of expectations as demand for the crop soared. And yet all demands (for the Allies and well as domestically) were met in 1917-19 because of stockpiles from the 1914-15 crop years, when the government did not control the markets. Facts are funny things. Historians can use all of them, some of them, and even pick and choose the ones that support their attempt at advocacy. In my opinion all too often historians cross the line into advocacy. This book includes a mixture of high quality research and advocacy. The result is that it falls short of expectations. A better focused and organized effort, without the advocacy, would have hit the mark. Adam Tooze set the standard in this regard with his masterful study of the Nazi economy - The Wages of Destruction. This book falls well short of that mark.

Perhaps because my childhood memories are permeated by World War II, I find myself reading (and listening to) many books, both fiction and non-fiction, centered on that event. It took me a long time to read this one, not because of its length or because it wasn't interesting, it was just so dense and surprising that I could only absorb short sections at a time. It offers an entirely different, and new to me, perspective on that war, and indirectly, on war in general. It seemed that each section included information and analysis that were enlightening. I had vowed never to read another Holocaust book, and although this book of course included significant reference to that aspect of the war, it was in the context of many other aspects. Of course the Holocaust was the ultimate horror and must never be forgotten or discounted, but this book makes clear how devastating were the effects on many other countries and populations. The extensive footnoting and documentation account for some of the length of the book, but the footnotes do not contain additional text so do not have to be read or referred to for other than scholarly puposes. In fact, the documentation is awesome in itself.Beyond the immediate impact of the war itself, the continuing effects of the events and strategies undertaken in pursuit of its outcome are noteworthy -- such as the consequence of changes to the food preferences in the South Pacific, as only a single example.This is a book I would recommend to anyone with patience and even a passing interest in World War II.

A very good writing of the study of the need for food dispersement during WW11. There is also a good study of what people do during times when there is a lack of the necessary calories that the human body needs to stay healthy

A fascinating look at how the simplest of human needs -- food -- motivated so many military and political decisions in World War 2. Also a fascinating perspective on how the American need to feed its troops in far flung places like Iwo Jima and Corregidor produced the current American Big Food industry, and how war-time decisions led to the scientifically inaccurate and devastatingly misleading USDA Food Pyramid. A must read for anyone concerned about the effect of food instability in the emerging world on global politics.

This book has taken something I have thought I had a decent understanding of, World War two, and has completely changed my understanding of it. I will not be able to remove the lens of food as I continue my study in the subject. It address the highs and lows. The sacrifice and the greed. The evils of speculation and hoarding and of those who seek to gain out of suffering. It also talks about those who see a better way. A fascinating book that I highly recommend.

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