Genocide and ethnic cleansing

The Normandy landings of 6 June 1944, across five sectors of the French coast - Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword - constituted the largest amphibious invasion in history.

Through exploring the battle of ideas set in motion in August 1914, First World War: Still No End In Sight provides a framework for understanding the changing focus of political conflict from ideology to culture.

In December 1941 Japan set out to seize South-East Asia and the western Pacific to complete the building of a self-sufficient empire.

Using government records, private letters and diaries and contemporary media sources, this book examines the key themes affecting the relationship between Britain and the Dominions during the Second World War, the Empire's last great conflict.

A thoughtful and provocative biography of the controversial Pope who led the Catholic Church during World War II

There is a claim that Hitler's rise to power was left unchallenged by the inaction of Pope Pius XII.

The string of military defeats during 1942 marked the end of British hegemony in Southeast Asia, finally destroying the myth of British imperial invincibility.

Holocaust Remembrance Between the National and the Transnational provides a key study of the remembrance of the Jewish Catastrophe and the Nazi-era past in the world arena.

This is the first major study of the mass sequestration of Armenian property by the Young Turk regime during the 1915 Armenian genocide.

A thoughtful and provocative biography of the controversial Pope who led the Catholic Church during World War II

There is a claim that Hitler's rise to power was left unchallenged by the inaction of Pope Pius XII.

Here is an original and up-to-date account of a key period of military history, one that not only links the two World Wars but also anticipates the more complex nature of conflict following the Cold War.

The Bloomsbury Companion to Holocaust Literature is a comprehensive reference resource including a wealth of critical material on a diverse range of topics within the literary study of Holocaust writing.

That the conflicts unleashed by Great War did not end in 1918 is well known.

This book offers a fresh approach to the debate on the RAF's bomber offensive by using modern strategic leadership theory as an analytical tool to examine the campaign.

As Testament of Youth movingly showed, the First World War was to haunt Vera Brittain throughout her life.

Published for the very first time, the top secret report Some Weaknesses in German Strategy and Organisation 1933 - 1945 was prepared by Whitehall's highest intelligence body, the Joint Intelligence Committee, and presented to Britain's Chiefs of Staff in 1946 to 'set down certain aspects of the War whilst there are still sources available who were closely connected with the events described'.

Focusing on the major cases of genocide in twentieth-century Europe, including the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, and genocide in the former Yugoslavia, as well as mass killing in the Soviet Union, this book outlines the internal and external roots of genocide.

This is the first major study of the mass sequestration of Armenian property by the Young Turk regime during the 1915 Armenian genocide.

Many major world events have occurred since the last key anniversary of the beginning of the Second World War, and these events have had a dramatic impact on the international stage: 9/11, the Iraq War, climate change and the world economic crisis.

In December 1941 Japan set out to seize South-East Asia and the western Pacific to complete the building of a self-sufficient empire.

This book examines and analyses the relationship between the RAF, the Free French Movement and the French fighter pilots in WWII.

This volume provides an in-depth discussion of Saul Friedlander's landmark two-volume history of the Holocaust, Nazi Germany and the Jews.

Few historical events have resonated as much in modern British culture as the Second World War.

When representing the Holocaust, the slightest hint of narrative embellishment strikes contemporary audiences as somehow a violation against those who suffered under the Nazis.

Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence form the backbone of the Army's operating system.

On 8 March 1941, a 27-year-old Jewish Dutch student living in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam made the first entry in a diary that was to become one of the most remarkable documents to emerge from the Nazi Holocaust.

Immortalised in Churchill's often quoted assertion that never before "e;was so much owed by so many to so few"e;, the top-down narrative of the Battle of Britain has been firmly established in British legend.

This important reference work offers students a comprehensive overview of the Darfur Genocide, with roughly 100 in-depth articles by leading scholars on an array of topics and themes and more than a dozen key primary source documents.

Weaving together a number of disparate themes relating to Holocaust perpetrators, this book shows how Nazi Germany propelled a vast number of Europeans to try to re-engineer the population base of the continent through mass murder.

An indispensable resource for those interested in the scourge of mass murder and genocide in the 20th and 21st centuries, this book analyzes modern and contemporary controversies and issues to help readers to understand genocide in all its complexity.

This book provides an indispensable resource for anyone researching the scourge of mass murder in the 20th and 21st centuries, effectively using primary source documents to help them understand all aspects of genocide.

An all-in-one resource for understanding the issue of torture and enhanced interrogations, including their history as an instrument of state power and warfare, debates over the morality of their use in different contexts, and efforts by human rights organizations and nations to end torture and enhanced interrogation techniques worldwide.

This book is an "e;Honorable-Mention Awardee 2015"e; from Readers Favorite under Non-Fiction/Autobiography category.

Nazi Germany provides a comprehensive survey of the National Socialist dictatorship, artfully balancing social and cultural history with a political and military history of the regime.

Turkey has gone through significant transformations over the last century from the Ottoman Empire and Young Turk era to the Republic of today but throughout it has demonstrated troubling continuities in its encouragement and deployment of mass violence.

A fully illustrated study of how the US-led half of the Normandy invasion fleet was composed, commanded, and how it fought, from D-Day until the fall of Cherbourg.

This is a love story, but it is also a story of World War II.

One of history s most defining moments comes to life in this jam-packed, 3-panel guide designed for students and history buffs alike!

One of history s most defining moments comes to life in this jam-packed, 3-panel guide designed for students and history buffs alike!

Returning to India from China on November 3, 1944, WWII C-46 #996 calls an ominous "e;Mayday.

Was Auschwitz war, muss man nicht erklären.

This unique account of D-Dayhistory provides an unusual look into the US Army s preparation of a new typeof World War II warfare, that of airborne operations.

Human remains and identification presents a pioneering investigation into the practices and methodologies used in the search for and exhumation of dead bodies resulting from mass violence.

Nonna Bannister carried a secret almost to her Tennessee grave: the diaries she had kept as a young girl experiencing the horrors of the Holocaust.

This book is an important episode in the history of the development and modernisation of Palestine in the latter 19th and the first half of the 20th Centuries.

"e;Dear Papa and Mutti!