In the First World War the supply of food to civilians became as significant a factor in final victory as success or defeat on the battlefields. Never before ha

The authors explore ways in which warfare creates hunger. The cases of Angola, Sudan, Tigray, Eritrea, Mozambique and Somalia illuminate the nature of complex e

Food was a critical front in the Cold War battle for Asia. “Where Communism goes, hunger follows” was the slogan of American nation builders who fanned out

This volume demonstrates how German expansion in the Second World War II led to shortages, of food and other necessities including medicine, for the occupied po

"Making use of recently released Soviet archival materials, Hunger and War investigates state food supply policy and its impact on Soviet society during World W