Description
| Product ID: | 9780141028972 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Taste of War |
| Subtitle: | World War Two and the Battle for Food |
| Authors: | Author: Lizzie Collingham |
| Page Count: | 672 |
| Subjects: | General and world history, General & world history, Social and cultural history, Second World War, Cultural studies: food and society, Social & cultural history, Second World War, Food & society, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. In World War Two, 19 million people died in the conflicts across the globe. Yet in those same years, more than 20 million died from starvation and malnutrition. In The Taste of War Lizzie Collingham shows how food - and its lack - was central to the war''s causes and continuation. She explores how starvation was often a deliberate governmental policy, and reveals how the necessity of feeding whole countries lead to Pearl Harbour, Germany''s invasion of Russia, and the Holocaust itself. |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2012-01-26 |
