Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Twentieth-Century Europe

Nicholas Atkin

• Publisher: Greenwood
• Year: 2008
• Print ISBN:
  9780313336577
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780313056192
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

Expert contributors write on the experiences of civilians who lived through occupation and bloodshed in the First World War; the Russians who lived or died during the the devastating civil war in 1917-1922, leading eventually to the terrors of Stalinism; the Spaniards of many factions who fought against each other in bloody civil wars; the ordinary people of France, Germany, Britain, Italy and other countries who faced the hardship and horrors of the Second World War; and the ethnic- and religious-based fighting and atrocities, often targeted at civilians, in the former Yugoslavia from 1991 into the twenty-first century. Carefully selected sources for further research help users find additional information on civilian life during these events.

Expert contributors write on the experiences of civilians in the many wars of twentieth-century Europe. Among the events discussed are the Europeans who lived through occupation and bloodshed in the First World War; the Russians who lived and died in the devastating civil war in 1917-1922, leading eventually to the terrors of Stalinism; the Spaniards of many factions who fought against each other in bloody civil wars; the ordinary people of France, Germany, Britain, Italy and other countries who faced the hardship and horrors of the Second World War; and the ethnic- and religious-based fighting and atrocities, often targeted at civilians, in the former Yugoslavia from 1991 into the twenty-first century. Carefully selected sources for further research help users find additonal information on civilian life during these events.

Chapters including vivid accounts of civilians' roles and experiences through wars in twentieth-century Europe are supplemented by recommended print and online resources for further study, a glossary defining important terms and concepts, and a timeline putting events into a chronological context.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Series Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Chronology
• 1. The Daily Life of Civilians in Wartime: Europe’s Twentieth-Century Experience
• 2. World War One, 1914–18: Daily Life in Western Societies
• 3. The Daily Lives of Civilians in the Russian Civil War
• 4. Daily Life in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–39
• 5. The Civilian Experience of World War Two: Displacement, Government, Adjustment, Comportment
• 6. Writing the History of Daily Life in the Cold War
• 7. Staying Behind: Civilians in the Post-Yugoslav Wars, 1991–95
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Editor and Contributors