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The Oxford Companion to World War II
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The Oxford Companion to World War II

Edited by I. C. B. Dear, M. R. D. Foot

This online edition was reviewed and selectively updated by the original editors in 2011.

Written by more than 140 specialist contributors from Italy, Germany, and Japan, as well as the Allied nations, the Companion provides unique world-wide coverage of the subject. Every aspect of the war is covered including, detailed surveys of major countries; politics and grand strategy; domestic and economic issues; resistance and intelligence services; campaigns, battles, and military operations; warfare and weapons; wartime leaders and influential people; and slogans and phrases.

Bibliographic Information

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Print Publication Date:
2001
Print ISBN-13:
9780198604464
Published to Oxford Reference:
2003
Current Online Version:
2012
eISBN:
9780191727603

Authors

I. C. B. Dear, editor in chief

M. R. D. Foot, author

I. C. B. Dear served in the Royal Marines from 1953 to 1957 and saw active service in Cyprus. He subsequently worked in book publishing for 16 years before becoming a full-time writer in 1979. His books on military subjects include Ten Commando, 1942–1945 (1987), Sabotage and Subversion (1999), and Escape and Evasion (2000).

M. R. D. FOOT, CBE, is an historian and former wartime intelligence officer. He was Professor of Modern History at Manchester (1967–73) and editor of the first four volumes of the Gladstone Diaries. His other works include SOE in France (1968), Resistance (1976), SOE: An Outline History (4th edn., 1999), and SOE in the Low Countries (2001).

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