Genocide and ethnic cleansing

The Boeing B-29 Superfortress lived an operational life of only 26 years, but what a life it was.

This vividly detailed memoir describes the experiences of a Holocaust survivor who narrowly escaped death by living a childhood of constant vigil and, along with his family, continuously dodging the ever-present threat of a Nazi capture.

More than 5000 major and minor league baseball players left the baseball diamond to serve in the military during World War II, but President Roosevelt insisted that baseball still be played to boost the country's morale.

In the 489 Dachau trials, 1700 criminals of Nazi Germany faced American justice.

On August 14, 1942, Chief of Staff George C.

The Second World War was in the bottom of the ninth inning in Germany and Japan, but back at home the bases were loaded with baseball players, many of them new to the big leagues.

During the Nazi regime's swift rise to power, no single target of nazification took higher priority than Germany's young people.

One of the most significant innovations in modern warfare has been the appearance and development of air power, a technology which demanded technical and financial investment on a whole new scale and which ultimately changed the fundamental nature of war itself.

Born in the Polish village of Gaj in 1923, Marian Mazgaj was a teenager when Germany invaded his country and launched Poland into the combat of World War II.

This book tells the story of Slovak underground member Maria Gulovich's unlikely heroism, focusing on the former elementary schoolteacher's courageous actions in saving American OSS agents.

"e;Hitler was Nazi Germany and Nazi Germany was Hitler.

This book describes the life of the enlisted men aboard a Farragut class destroyer during the pre-World War II years; the war preparation period in 1941; and the wartime years.

At home and overseas, the United States Coast Guard served a variety of vital functions in World War II, providing service that has been too little recognized in histories of the war.

Fought with obsolete and discarded equipment by an army mostly made up of untrained Filipinos, the Battle of Bataan has become one of the "e;forgotten"e; battles of World War II.

These accounts describe the battle and POW experiences of twelve American military men captured by either Germany or Japan during World War II.

Spurgeon & the Psalms will guide you into reading and meditating on God's Word with the insight of ';the prince of preachers.

Delve deeply into God's Wordand God's heartalongside wisdom from Matthew Henry, one of the most trusted Bible teachers in the history of the church.

Are you curious about biblical Christian meditation?

Why do soldiers fight?

Why do soldiers fight?

A selection of writings by courageous pacifist Christians who helped to save hundreds of lives during the Second World War.

Magda Trocme (1901-1996) was the Italian-born wife of Reverend Andre Trocme (1901-1971), a French pastor deeply involved in the social gospel movement that saw Christianity embedded in progressive political struggles.

The construction in the 1940s of hydroelectric dams and reservoirs, Lakes Manouan and Passe Dangereuse, were enormous projects that had consequences not only on the environment but also on international affairs.

The experiences of the Bene Israel community following their immigration from India to the newly formed state of Israel.

William Shirer (1904-1993), a star foreign correspondent with the Chicago Tribune in the 1920s and '30s, was a prominent member of what one contemporary observer described as an extraordinary band of American journalists, some with the Midwest hayseed still in their hair, who gave their North American audiences a visceral sense of how Europe was spiralling into chaos and war.

William Shirer (1904-1993), a star foreign correspondent with the Chicago Tribune in the 1920s and '30s, was a prominent member of what one contemporary observer described as an extraordinary band of American journalists, "e;some with the Midwest hayseed still in their hair,"e; who gave their North American audiences a visceral sense of how Europe was spiralling into chaos and war.

The first genocide of the twentieth century remains unrecognized and unpunished.

The first genocide of the twentieth century remains unrecognized and unpunished.

Between May 1948 and December 1951, Israel received approximately 684,000 immigrants from across the globe.

Picking up a family's broken pieces and restoring them in a narrative that seals the gaps with memory.

The daughter of Holocaust survivors, Elizabeth Wajnberg was born in postwar Poland.

A fascinating account of how Canada's largest Protestant church reinvented itself during the tumultuous 1960s.

At a time when Canadians were arguing about the merits of a new flag, the birth-control pill, and the growing hippie counterculture, the leaders of Canada's largest Protestant church were occupied with turning much of English-Canadian religious culture on its head.

Exploring the nature of Canada's response to the plight of European Jews seeking refuge and to anti-Jewish discrimination in Canada.

It has been thirty years since the publication of Irving Abella and Harold Troper's seminal work None is Too Many, which documented the official barriers that kept Jewish immigrants and refugees out of Canada in the shadow of the Second World War.

While the "e;Valkyrie"e; plot by Nazi officers to kill Adolf Hitler is the best known instance of German opposition to his dictatorship, there were many other significant acts of resistance.

While the "e;Valkyrie"e; plot by Nazi officers to kill Adolf Hitler is the best known instance of German opposition to his dictatorship, there were many other significant acts of resistance.

Detailing the ways in which the Canadian government built on existing programs for veterans, Peter Neary identifies the key figures and events responsible for developing the orders and statutes that came to be known as the Veterans Charter, creating the Department of Veterans Affairs, and establishing sweeping new benefits for servicemen and women.

Detailing the ways in which the Canadian government built on existing programs for veterans, Peter Neary identifies the key figures and events responsible for developing the orders and statutes that came to be known as the Veterans Charter, creating the Department of Veterans Affairs, and establishing sweeping new benefits for servicemen and women.

Escaping Germany, Weilbach describes her surreal experience aboard the luxury refugee ship the St Louis, refused the right to land first by Cuba and then by the United States and Canada and finally forced to turn back to Europe, where England and other countries eventually provided some sanctuary.

Escaping Germany, Weilbach describes her surreal experience aboard the luxury refugee ship the St Louis, refused the right to land first by Cuba and then by the United States and Canada and finally forced to turn back to Europe, where England and other countries eventually provided some sanctuary.

From its beginnings in the early twelfth century, the Western civilizing process has involved two interconnected transformations: the monopolization of military force by sovereign states and the cultivation in individuals of habits and dispositions of the kind that we call "e;civilized.

In January 1941, the hulking twenty-one thousand ton troopship Edmund B.

The attempt to assassinate Hitler is widely acknowledged, but few are aware of the individuals involved.

Using a wide array of sources - including long-closed court martial records, psychiatric and personnel files, unit war diaries, films, and oral histories - Paul Jackson relates the struggle of queer servicemen of all ranks and branches of the Canadian military to fit in to avoid losing their careers and reputations.

Using a wide array of sources - including long-closed court martial records, psychiatric and personnel files, unit war diaries, films, and oral histories - Paul Jackson relates the struggle of queer servicemen of all ranks and branches of the Canadian military to fit in to avoid losing their careers and reputations.

In Canadians Under Fire Robert Engen explores the dynamics of what combat looked like to Canada's infantrymen during the Second World War.

The UN has adopted a "e;responsibility to protect"e; mandate for humanitarian intervention in civil wars - but there is no institutional basis for carrying out that mandate.

Gruenwald paints his life story onto the larger canvas of some of the great conflicts and movements of the twentieth century.

Adams examines the contributions of such major Francais libres as Rene Cassin, Pierre Mendes France, and Jacques Soustelle and explores de Gaulle's troubled relations with Churchill and Roosevelt.