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The great cat and dog massacre : the real story of World War Two's unknown tragedy

Hilda Kean
eBook, English, 2017
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, 2017
1 online resource (242 Seiten)
9780226318462, 022631846X
1039174190
Chapter One. Introducing Animals, Historians, and the "People's War"
Chapter Two. Being a Pet in the 1920s and 1930s: A Chronicle of a Massacre Foretold?
Chapter Three. September 1939: No Human Panic. 400,000 Animals Killed in Four Days
Chapter Four. Disrupting Previous Stories: A Phony War for Whom?
Chapter Five. Building Cross-Species Experience: Eating and Food in the War
Chapter Six. Blurring the Boundaries: Who Is Going to Ground? Who Is Protecting Whom?
Chapter Seven. The Growing Strength of Animal-Human Families and the Wartime State
Chapter Eight. Emotion, Utility, Morale on the Home Front: Animal-Human Relationships
Chapter Nine. Conclusion: Change and Continuity. Remembering and Forgetting Animals during the Second World War
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index