Sums up the latest trends in the scholarship of that conflict, covering a range of major themes and issues that enables those with no memory of war to approach it with a view to comprehending what it was all about and places the history of this conflict into a context that is international, transnational, and institutional. Delivers a thematic analysis of the many ways in which study of the Second World War can take place, considering international, transnational, and global approaches, thereby acting as a jumping off point for further research, as well as functioning as a textbook to educate students as to the trends that have taken place in how the conflict has been (and can be) interpreted in the modern world. A concise and yet accessible volume that offers readers the most up-to-date scholarship on the subject.