Throughout Black provides valuable insight into the enduring political and cultural legacies of the Second World War ... [The book] is heartily recommended for anyone interested in the Second World War and in the memory and commemoration of that conflict.

Journal of World History

It is testament to Black's mastery of his craft that the book is in many ways successful ... [Rethinking World War Two is] the most succinct and up-to-date account of post-war memory work across the globe available in English ... Black is an assured and thoughtful guide to these cultural and geopolitical aftershocks of the Second World War.

Christopher Dillon, King's College London, UK, The RUSI Journal

Jeremy Black brings his sharp analytic mind and his global perspective to this new treatment of the Second World War. Readers will find much to engage and debate in this insightful book.

Michael S. Neiberg, author of The Blood of Free Men: The Liberation of Paris, 1944

Black has the ability to say more in sentence than most historians in a paragraph. Here he analyzes World War Two by discussing its events in the contexts of recollection and memorialization. He asks how the conflict's key aspects, causes, conduct and politics are addressed and understood in ongoing debates that make the war a recovered and living memory as well as a received one.

Dennis Showalter, Professor of History, Colorado College, USA

Jeremy Black is a truly brilliant historian who repeatedly challenges our perceptions of how we view the past. This is an utterly compelling and fascinating work that is full of thought-provoking wisdom, and which proves there is still much to learn about this most enduringly fascinating conflict.

James Holland, author of The Battle of Britain and Dam Busters: The Race to Smash the German Dams

At the beginning of the 21st century, a new perspective on World War Two is required. This is what the master historian Jeremy Black offers in the present volume. Rethinking World War Two will certainly force all of us to seriously rethink the causes, course and consequences of the last World War.

Kaushik Roy, Guru Nanak Professor in History, Jadavpur University, India and Global Fellow of the Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway