This course will give students an understanding of the greatest conflict in history through a broad coverage of its military, social, political, economic and moral aspects. The course traces the major campaigns and key turning points of the military war and deals with the impact of the war on the home fronts and under German occupation. Students will be introduced to the moral issues raised by this world conflict and the differing historical interpretations of them: the barbarisation of warfare, the Final Solution, the dropping of the first atomic bomb and the trials that ended the war.