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European and Asian Responses to Axis Conquest, 1937–1945

A comparative treatment of European and Asian responses to German and Japanese occupation during the Second World War.

Aviel Roshwald (Author)

9781108790826, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 27 April 2023

481 pages
22.8 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.67 kg

'A masterful synthesis of the Axis occupations and a true global history of World War II. Told with great clarity and interpretive verve, this book makes sense of the diversity of political responses to wartime occupation across Europe and Asia. A must-read!' Jeremy A. Yellen, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

For most of the population of Europe and East and Southeast Asia, the most persistent and significant aspect of their experience of the Second World War was that of occupation by one or more of the Axis powers. In this ambitious and wide-ranging study, Aviel Roshwald brings us the first single-authored, comparative treatment of European and Asian responses to German and Japanese occupation during the war. He illustrates how patriotic, ethno-national, and internationalist identities were manipulated, exploited, reconstructed and reinvented as a result of the wholesale dismantling of states and redrawing of borders. Using eleven case studies from across the two continents, he examines how behavioral choices around collaboration and resistance were conditioned by existing identities or loyalties as well as by short-term cost–benefit calculations, opportunism, or coercion.

Introduction
Part I. Patriotisms Under Occupation (The Netherlands, France, Denmark, and Thailand)
Introduction to Part I
1. Initial choices and conditions
2. Patriotic solidarity in the first flush of defeat
3. The shifting parameters of the patriotically plausible
Conclusion to Part I
Part II. Fractured Societies and Fractal Identities – Civil Wars Under Occupation (Greece, Yugoslavia, Italy, and China): Introduction to Part II
4. The civil wars in a nutshell: historical overview
5. Continuities and ruptures
6. From parochial interests to internationalist visions: The fractal structures of political identity in civil wars
Conclusion to Part II
Part III. Conquest in the Guise of Liberation (the Philippines, Indonesia, and Ukraine): Introduction to Part III
7. Colonial histories
8. The ghosts of colonialisms past and the weight of occupations present
Conclusion to Part III
Conclusion.

Subject Areas: Comparative politics [JPB], Second World War [HBWQ], Military history [HBW], History [HB]