Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- ASIA AND THE PACIFIC -- Part I: International Background to the War in Asia -- 1. International Relations and the Origins of the War in Asia and the Pacific War -- Part II: The Asian and Pacific Theaters -- 2. The Second Sino-Japanese War, 1931-1945 -- 3. The Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor -- 4. Japanese Strategy and Campaigns in the Pacific War, 1941-1945 -- 5. American and Allied Strategy and Campaigns in the Pacific War, 1941-1945 -- 6. Burma and Southeast Asia, 1941-1945 -- 7. The Air War against Japan and the End of the War in the Pacific -- Part III: War and Society in the Asian and Pacific Theaters -- 8. Japanese Occupation, Resistance, and Collaboration in Asia -- 9. The Domestic Impact of War and Occupation on Japan -- 10. European Reconquest and Neocolonialism in Southeast Asia -- 11. Prisoners of War and Civilian Internees: The Asian and Pacific Theaters -- GENERAL THEMES -- Part IV: The War in Science, Technology, Propaganda, and Unit Histories -- 12. Science, Technology, and Weapons Development -- 13. Propaganda, Public Opinion, and Censorship during the Second World War -- 14. Unit Histories and the Experience of Combat -- Part V: War, the Arts, and the Life of the Spirit -- 15. The War and Film in the United States and Britain -- 16. Japanese War Films -- 17. The Holocaust and Film -- 18. The "Western" Fiction of World War II -- 19. Lines (In) Formation: Anglophone Poetry in the Second World War -- 20. The War and the Visual Arts -- 21. Art Music and World War II -- 22. Popular Culture and World War II -- 23. American Christianity on the Home Front during the Second World War -- 24. Christianity Outside North America -- 25. Cultural Background to the War -- Part VI: World War II and Postwar International Relations -- 26. Allied Summit Diplomacy.

27. Planning for the Postwar World Economy and the United Nations -- 28. The Breakdown of the Grand Alliance and the Origins of the Cold War, 1945-1947 -- 29. War Crimes, International Criminal Law, and the Postwar Trials in Europe and Asia -- Author Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- About the Editor and Contributors.