Course Reader
HIEU 137
War and Society: The First and Second World Wars
Wendy Maxon and Doug McGetchin
1st Summer Session 2002

Table of Contents

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Table of Contents ……………………………………………………………………   1

Niall Ferguson, "Ten Questions" in The Pity of War (New York: Basic Books, 1999),
xxv-xxvi. …………………………………………………………......……….……..   4

Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and
Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 (New York: Random House, 1987), 198-203, 247-257………………………………………………………...…………………….   5

Hobson, "Economic Parasites of Imperialism," Chapter 4 in Imperialism (1902;
London: Allen & Unwin, 1961), 46-61. …………………………………………....... 14

Niall Ferguson, "The August Days: The Myth of War Enthusiasm," Chapter 7 in The
Pity of War (New York: Basic Books, 1999), 174-179. ……….....…………………. 23

Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, translated by A. W. Wheen
(1928; Boston: Little, Brown, 1984), 88-93, 98-103, 106-119…………………......... 26

Wilfred Owen, “Dulce et Decorum Est,” The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen
(1917; London: Chatto & Windus, 1974), 55-56. ………………………………........ 39

Charles Heller, "Chemical Warfare in World War I: The American Experience,
1917-1918," Leavenworth Papers, No. 10 (Fort Leavenworth: Combat Studies
Institute, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, 1985), 3-19. …........…… 40

Belinda Davis, Home Fires Burning: Food, Politics, and Everyday Life in World War I
Berlin (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000), 190-215. …...........… 52

B. H. Liddell Hart, "The Tank Surprise at Cambrai" in The Real War 1914-1918
(1930; Boston: Little-Brown, 1964), 344-356. ……………………………………..…. 65

Timothy Lupfer, "The Dynamics of Doctrine: The Changes in German Tactical Doctrine
during the First World War," Leavenworth Papers, No. 4 (Fort Leavenworth:
Combat Studies Institute, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College,
1981), 40-50, 53-54. ……………………………………………………………........... 72

 Rosa Luxemburg, "The Crisis of German Social Democracy" in Margaret Higonnet,
Lines of Fire: Women Writers of World War I (New York: Plume, 1999), 74-80. …… 79

Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai, “Who needs the War?” in Higonnet, Lines of Fire,
67-73……..........……………………………………………………………………….. 83

Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution (1917; Peking: Foreign Languages Press,
1965), 1-13……………………………………………………………………...........… 87

"The 'Fourteen Points' and the 'Four Points'" in Ray Baker, Woodrow Wilson and
World Settlement, Vol. 3 (1922; Gloucester: Smith, 1960), 42-46. .…………………... 94

"The National Assembly Debate on the Treaty of Versailles" and "The Terms of the
Treaty of Versailles" in Benjamin Sax and Dieter Kuntz, Inside Hitler's Germany
(Lexington: Heath, 1992), 45-50. ….........………………………………………….….. 97

Aldous Huxley, An Encyclopedia of Pacifism, reprinted in Robert Seeley, The Handbook
of Nonviolence (1937; Great Neck: Lakeville Press, 1986), 56-61, 64-68. ……........… 101

Ernst Jünger “My Last Storm,” in The Storm of Steel: From the Diary of a German
Storm-Troop Officer On the Western Front (1921; New York: Fertig, 1975),
300-319. ………………………………………………..………………………........…. 107

Ernst Jünger "Fire," in Der Kampf als inneres Erlebnis (Berlin: Mittler, 1922). ……….. 117

Heinrich Himmler, "The Nature and Purpose of the SS" [Speech to Army Officers,
January 1937] in Sax and Kuntz, Inside Hitler's Germany, 370-379. ………….........… 120

Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military
Conflict from 1500 to 2000 (New York: Random House, 1987), 303-333. ……........... 125

"The Hossbach Memorandum: Hitler Outlines His Plans for Expansion in Europe"
[November 5, 1937] in George P. Blum, The Rise of Fascism in Europe
(Westport: Greenwood Press, 1998), 146-151. …………………………………........... 138

Marc Bloch, Strange Defeat (1940; New York: Norton, 1968), 36-41, 46-49.……...…. 141

General Heinz Guderian, Panzer Leader, translated by Constantine Fitzgibbon (1952;
London: Futura, 1982), 152……………………………………………………….......... 146

"Document No. 12 Kommissarbefehl [Commissar Order]" [June 6, 1941] in Helmut
Krausnick, et al., eds., Anatomy of the SS State (London: Collins, 1968),
532-534. ………………………………………………………………...........………… 147

Horst Fuchs Richardson and Dennis Showater, eds., Sieg Heil! War Letters of Tank
Gunner Karl Fuchs 1937-1941 (Hamden: Archon, 1987), 114-119, 122-123. ...........… 149

Omer Bartov, Hitler's Army: Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reich, 3-11, 29-43.. 153

George Niell, Infantry Soldier: Holding the Line at the Battle of the Bulge (Norman:
University of Oklahoma Press, 2000), 24-31, 46-49, 184-189. ..…….........…………… 166

Bill Mauldin, Up Front (New York: Holt, 1945), 4-7, 10-11, 44, 219………………...… 175

Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, translated by Ralph Manheim (1925; Boston: Houghton
Mifflin, 1971), 176-186, 463-479 [Vol. I, Chapter 6; Vol II, Chapter 6]. ………............ 179

Ian Kershaw, The Hitler Myth: Image and Reality in the Third Reich (New York:
Oxford University Press, 1987), 72-82. ...…….........…………………………………… 194

Alfons Heck, A Child of Hitler: Germany in the Days when God Wore a Swastika
(Frederick: Renaissance House, 1985), 19-23. …………………………………............. 200

 “Democracy?” in The Editors of Yank, The Best from Yank the Army Weekly (New
York: Dutton, 1945), 212-213. …………………………………………………............. 203

John Ohly, "Number of Strikes and Man-Days Lost Through Strikes Affecting War
Department Procurement for the Years 1941-July 1945," in Industrialists in
Olive Drab: The Emergency Operation of Private Industries During World
War II (Washington: Center of military History, United States Army, 2000),
Appendix E-2. ……………..……………………………………………………............. 205

"New Career Opportunities for Women," "Women and Total War," and "The Problems
of Mobilizing the Female Work Force," in Sax and Kuntz, Inside Hitler's
Germany, 280-285. …………………………………………….…………..........……… 206

Albert Speer, "Sins of Omission" Chapter 16 in Inside the Third Reich (1969; New
York: Macmillan, 1970), 214-217, 224-229.……………………………………............. 209

"Commandant of Auschwitz" in Sax and Kuntz, Inside Hitler's Germany, 444-447. …… 214

Browning, "The Order Police and the Final Solution: Deportation," Chapter 4 in
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland,
(New York: HarperPerennial, 1993), 26-37.  . .…………………………………............ 216

Gerhard Weinberg, "Some Thoughts on World War II," Chapter 22 in Germany, Hitler,
and World War Two (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 307-317..........… 223

James Young, The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning (New
Haven: Yale University Press, 1993), 1-15. ……………………………..............……… 229

Howard Zinn, "Just and Unjust War," Chapter Five in Declarations of Independence:
Cross-Examining American Ideology (New York: HarperCollins, 1990) 74-75,
100-105. ……………………………………………………………………............……. 243
 
 

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