Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-225) and index.
Contents
Introducing animals, historians, and the "people's war" -- Being a pet in the 1920s and 1930s : a chronicle of a massacre foretold? -- September 1939 : no human panic : 400,000 animals killed in four days -- Disrupting previous stories : a phony war for whom? -- Building cross-species experience : eating and food in the war -- Blurring the boundaries : who is going to ground? who is protecting whom? -- The growing strength of animal-human families and the wartime state -- Emotion, utility, morale on the home front : animal-human relationships -- Conclusion: Change and continuity : remembering and forgetting animals during the Second World War.