Heather Merle Benbow is a scholar of German Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia.Heather R. Perry is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA.

Examines the social, cultural and emotional significance of food and hunger in World War I, World War II and the Global Cold War

Analyzes Germany's modern wars through food-centered perspectives and experiences "from below"

Moves beyond the "hot zones" of armed conflict to consider spaces such as public kitchens, occupation zones, medical encounters and reconstruction programs

1. Hunger Pangs: The Contours of Violence and Food Scarcity in Germany's Twentieth-Century Wars.- 2. Onward Kitchen Soldiers! Gender, Food, and Health in Germany's Long Great War.- 3. Food, Drink and Hunger for World War I German Soldiers.- 4. Public Feeding in the First World War: Berlin's First Public Kitchen System.- 5. Coping with Hunger in the Ghettos: The Impact of Nazi Racialized Food Policy.- 6. Bee Stings and Beer: The Significance of Food in Alabamian POW Newspapers.- 7. The Productive Heimat: Territorial Loss and Rurality in German Identity at the Stunde Null.- 8. Postwar Food Rumors: Security, Victimhood, and Fear.- 9. The Taste of Defeat: Food, Peace and Power in US-Occupied Germany.- 10. Cold (Beer) War: The German Volksgetränk in East German Rhetoric (1945-1971).- 11. Brewing Global Relations during the Cold War: Coffee, East Germans, and Southeast Asia, 1978-1990.