{"product_id":"shots-in-the-dark-experimentation-success-and-failure-in-the-second-world-war-hardback-9781531512019","title":"Shots in the Dark; Experimentation, Success, and Failure in the Second World War (Hardback) 9781531512019","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eShots in the Dark\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eExperimentation, Success, and Failure in the Second World War\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJadwiga Biskupska (Edited by), Sara B. Castro (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781531512019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 30 October 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e352 pages, 3 b\/w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.603 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"The editors are to be congratulated for producing an excellent book which  sets wide-ranging and ambitious intellectual goals and assuredly fulfills them. It will be of great value and interest to scholars of the Second  World War and Twentieth Century global history.\" - Andrew Stewart, Visiting Professor, King’s College London\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrings together geographies and methodologies often kept apart by the difficulties of researching such a broad-ranging topic as the war\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eShots in the Dark\u003c\/i\u003e offers cutting-edge scholarship across different subfields in World War II history, revealing new insights into how this crucial conflict was planned, experienced, and fought. Twelve chapters demonstrate the broad scope of wartime innovation and how the war functioned as a global turning point, driving change at all levels of human society, from government institutions to individual identities.\u003cbr\u003e Contributors collaborated in a vibrant workshops series sponsored by the North American branch of the Second World War Research Group (SWWRGNA), an organization that emerged to nurture scholarship on the global war and unite scholars fragmented in narrower regional and methodological \"stovepipes\" to consider the war as a whole. The SWWRGNA and this volume showcase the work of diverse historians across subfields—operational, cultural, gender, social, intelligence, and diplomatic history. This approach exposes the Second World War as a catalyst for overlapping global changes that revolutionized the world after 1945. These scholars reveal continuities and parallels in wartime experiences that would remain invisible in narrowly focused projects.\u003cbr\u003e The volume establishes three frameworks for understanding and interpreting changes the war provoked: 1) institutional adaptation, 2) \"totalization,\" or the militarization of civilians, and 3) cultural transformation. Each of the three frameworks is explored from four vantage points. Geographies are deliberately contrasted within each framework to examine the broad scope of that level of war-driven change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eForeword\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobert Citino\u003c\/i\u003e   ix\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e: Taking Our First Shots in the Dark\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJadwiga Biskupska\u003c\/i\u003e   1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Institutional Adaptation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. \u003c\/b\u003eThe Dixie Mission(aries): The Protestant Roots of US Intelligence Officers in Wartime China\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSara B. Castro\u003c\/i\u003e   13\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e2.\u003c\/b\u003e The Diversity and Versatility of British Intelligence in Iraq, 1939-1945\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdrian O'Sullivan\u003c\/i\u003e   35\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. \u003c\/b\u003ePrelude to Barbarossa? The 4th Mountain Division War in Yugoslavia, April-May 1941\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJeff Rutherford\u003c\/i\u003e   61\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e4. \"\u003c\/b\u003eBelieved Reliable\": The \"Morale and Opinions\" of German Prisoners of War in the United States,\u003cbr\u003eFebruary 1944-June 1945\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDerek R. Mallett\u003c\/i\u003e   85\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Totalization: The Militarization of Civilians\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e5. \u003c\/b\u003eMontelimar's Phony War: Requisitions, Mobilization, and French Civilians\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCameron Zinsou\u003c\/i\u003e   113\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e6.\u003c\/b\u003e Red Army Divisions' Growing Demand for Artistic Service: Entertainment at the Front, 1941-1945\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eErina Megowan\u003c\/i\u003e   134\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e7. \u003c\/b\u003eFrom Covert Reports to Front-Page News: How North American Newspaper Reports Contributed to Views on Reconnaissance Actions in Northwest Europe\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVictoria Sotvedt\u003c\/i\u003e   158\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e8. \u003c\/b\u003e\"Everything We Can Lay Hands On\": Canadian Soldiers and Sexual Violence in Germany in 1945\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eClaire Cookson-Hills \u003c\/i\u003e  179\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Cultural Transformation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e9.\u003c\/b\u003e \"The Men of Bataan Lived Up to the Best American Tradition\":\u003cbr\u003eJournalists, Civilians, Politicians, and the Meaning of Surrender during World War II\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eElena M. Friot\u003c\/i\u003e   207\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e10.\u003c\/b\u003e Who Do You Believe? Loyalty and Asian Americans in the OSS during World War II\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrian Masaru Hayashi\u003c\/i\u003e   230\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e11. \u003c\/b\u003eWorld War II and Soviet Intelligence and State Security Officer Defectors\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKevin P. 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