Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The Strains of MobilizationIndex
The Shock of War is an invaluable survey of a critically important subject. Kennedy adeptly synthesizes the wide sweep of history without losing sight of the personal stories-a very impressive achievement that will be appreciated by specialist and general reader alike. -- Jonathan F. Vance, The University of Western Ontario Sean Kennedy does a great service in this short book. He has included much new work on the experience of civilians in the Second World War, both in Asia and Europe, and crafted a series of judicious essays on popular mobilization, life under foreign occupation, the scale and scope of the war's genocidal atrocities, and the social impact of the war's destruction. The book will serve as an essential starting place for students of the human experience of the Second World War. -- William I. Hitchcock, University of Virginia
Sean Kennedy is Associate Professor in the History Department at the University of New Brunswick and the author of Reconciling France against Democracy: The Croix de Feu and the Parti Social Francais 1927-1945 (2007).
The Shock of War is an invaluable survey of a critically important
subject. Kennedy adeptly synthesizes the wide sweep of history
without losing sight of the personal stories-a very impressive
achievement that will be appreciated by specialist and general
reader alike.--Jonathan F. Vance, The University of Western
Ontario
Sean Kennedy does a great service in this short book. He has
included much new work on the experience of civilians in the Second
World War, both in Asia and Europe, and crafted a series of
judicious essays on popular mobilization, life under foreign
occupation, the scale and scope of the war's genocidal atrocities,
and the social impact of the war's destruction. The book will serve
as an essential starting place for students of the human experience
of the Second World War.--William I. Hitchcock, University of
Virginia
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