The taste of war (2011)

Collingham reframes the Second World War not around tank battles, but around the brutal struggle to secure calories and agricultural acreage. She uncovers how the German Hunger Plan engineered mass starvation in Eastern Europe, how Allied merchant convoys fought to keep Britain fed, and how Japanese troops perished from supply failures. It is a harrowing, essential reminder that military strategy and political survival have always rested squarely upon the food supply.