{"product_id":"shots-in-the-dark-experimentation-success-and-failure-in-the-second-world-war-paperback","title":"Shots in the Dark: Experimentation, Success, and Failure in the Second World War - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJadwiga Biskupska\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eSara B. Castro\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJadwiga Biskupska\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrings together geographies and methodologies often kept apart by the difficulties of researching such a broad-ranging topic as the war\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eShots in the Dark\u003c\/i\u003e offers cutting-edge scholarship across different subfields in World War II history, revealing new insights into how this crucial conflict was planned, experienced, and fought. Twelve chapters demonstrate the broad scope of wartime innovation and how the war functioned as a global turning point, driving change at all levels of human society, from government institutions to individual identities. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eContributors collaborated in a vibrant workshops series sponsored by the North American branch of the Second World War Research Group (SWWRGNA), an organization that emerged to nurture scholarship on the global war and unite scholars fragmented in narrower regional and methodological \"stovepipes\" to consider the war as a whole. The SWWRGNA and this volume showcase the work of diverse historians across subfields--operational, cultural, gender, social, intelligence, and diplomatic history. This approach exposes the Second World War as a catalyst for overlapping global changes that revolutionized the world after 1945. These scholars reveal continuities and parallels in wartime experiences that would remain invisible in narrowly focused projects. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe volume establishes three frameworks for understanding and interpreting changes the war provoked: 1) institutional adaptation, 2) \"totalization,\" or the militarization of civilians, and 3) cultural transformation. Each of the three frameworks is explored from four vantage points. Geographies are deliberately contrasted within each framework to examine the broad scope of that level of war-driven change.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJadwiga Biskupska (Edited By) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJadwiga Biskupska \u003c\/b\u003eis an associate professor of military history at Sam Houston State University and co-director of the Second World War Research Group, North America. She completed her PhD at Yale University and is the author of Survivors: Warsaw under Nazi Occupation (Cambridge, 2022), which won the 2022 Heldt Prize of the Association for Women in Slavic Studies. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSara B. Castro (Edited By) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eSara B. Castro \u003c\/b\u003eis an associate professor of history at the US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where she teaches global, military, and East Asian history. She served as president of the Society of Intelligence Historians (SIH), 2022-2024. She completed her PhD at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and is the author of \u003ci\u003eMission to Mao: US Intelligence and the Chinese Communists in World War II\u003c\/i\u003e (Georgetown, 2024). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.78 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 02, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45519504867430,"sku":"9781531512026","price":69.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/4tz9ncvjem9781531512026.webp?v=1776437438","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/shots-in-the-dark-experimentation-success-and-failure-in-the-second-world-war-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}