A Terrible Precedent

The Second World War was the closest the world has come to a complete total war. But it was in the interwar years that nations honed the methods of destruction which were unleashed on a much wider scale in the Second World War. We look to wars in Manchuria, China, Abyssinia and Spain to see how each served as a 'terrible precedent,' revealing elements of total war that soon engulfed the globe.

Guerre totale, la Seconde Guerre mondiale a bouleversé les sociétés de tous les continents, comme en Mandchourie, en Chine, en Abyssinie ou en Espagne.