Genocide and ethnic cleansing

This book tells in non-technical language how the British Navy contributed to the development of naval radar in World War 2.

This book examines youth cultural responses to the political, economic and socio-cultural changes that affected Britain in the aftermath of the Second World War.

Searching for Lord Haw-Haw is an authoritative account of the political lives of William Joyce.

The century between Stefan Zweig and Aharon Appelfeld was marked by the impact of the Shoa.

In World War II Germany's doctrine of mobile warfare dominated the battlefield.

"e; Winner of the Best Aeronautical Book Award from the Reserve Officers Association of the United States "e;The sky was full of dying airplanes"e; as American Liberator bombers struggled to return to North Africa after their daring low-level raid on the oil refineries of Ploesti.

About the Allies victory in the Pacific in WWII, it goes almost without question that Japans defeat was inevitable in the face of overwhelming American military might and economic power.

The Battle of Normandy was the greatest offensive campaign the world had ever seen.

Zhukov was the dominant figure in the Red Army during World War II even though his actual job title varied from day to day.

In the 1920s and 30s, aircraft designer Andrey Tupolev designed a series of advanced torpedo boats for the USSR.

1944 saw the largest seaborne invasion ever staged in Operation Overlord.

The B-24 Liberator was built in greater numbers than any other US WW2 aircraft, and served in every theater of WW2, as heavy bomber, anti-submarine aircraft, reconnaissance and transport.

At the time of publication, no single volume in English had ever appeared in the West dealing with this intriguing subject area.

Hans Mommsen, einer der bedeutendsten Zeithistoriker der Bundesrepublik, liefert eine kompakte Gesamtinterpretation der komplexen Geschehnisse, die zur Entfesselung des Holocaust geführt haben.

Anzac Labour explores the horror, frustration and exhaustion surrounding working life in the Australian Imperial Force during the First World War.

Few places in the world carry as heavy a burden of history as Auschwitz.

The Imperial Japanese Navy's Special Landing Force units enjoyed a reputation out of proportion to their small size.

Merrill's Marauders were the first American Army infantry unit to fight in the China-Burma-India theatre, and one of the most renowned units to come out of World War II.

In the final six months of World War 2 the Tempest V was pitted against some of the Luftwaffe's most advanced fighter types.

The first deployment of the V-1 was in June 1944 when, following two years of tests, Hitler gave the order to attack England.

Negotiating China's Destiny explains how China developed from a country that hardly mattered internationally into the important world power it is today.

Among the more than 260 American submarines that patrolled the Pacific during World War II, the USS Swordfish in 1941 was the first to sink a Japanese armed merchant ship, marking the beginning of the submarine's colorful history.

After the Fall of France in 1940, a new puppet state was set up in the south.

Based upon the ubiquitous Grant/Sherman tank, the M7 Priest is the iconic Allied self-propelled howitzer.

"e;Establishes itself as the standard historical work on Nazi Germany’s mass murder of Europe’s Jews.

This book provides up-to-date insight into the notorious German unit, JV 44, its numerous aces and its stunning success with the revolutionary Me 262 during the last dramatic months of World War 2.

This book offers a comprehensive Possible Worlds framework with which to analyse counterfactual historical fiction.

Japan 1945.

The unparalleled, classic work of history that recreates the battle that changed World War IIthe Allied invasion of Normandy.

The submarine was the invisible but formidable weapon of the Royal Navy during World War II.

At the outbreak of World War II in September 1939, Germany's armoured forces - the Panzerwaffe - were still in their infancy.

A valued adviser and trusted insider in the highest echelon of U.

A new look for Austerity.

Few of the combatants of World War II have captured the imagination as compulsively as the Fallschirmj ger.

This book establishes the profound significance of MGM's 1940 film The Mortal Storm, the first major Hollywood production to depict the plight of Jews in Germany before the Holocaust.

Warship Builders is the first scholarly study of the U.

Piecing together a fractured European continent after World War I, the Versailles Peace Treaty stipulated the long term occupation of the Rhineland by Allied troops.

Taner Ak am is one of the first Turkish academics to acknowledge and discuss openly the Armenian Genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman-Turkish government in 1915.

This book, first published in 1983, brings together leading world experts on film and radio propaganda in a study which deals with each of the major powers as well as several under occupation.

This book focuses on the experiences of thousands of Jewish displaced persons (DPs) who lived in refugee camps in Italy between the liberation of the southern regions in 1943 and the early 1950s, waiting for their resettlement outside of Europe.

This handbook explores a diverse range of artistic and cultural responses to modern conflict, from Mons in the First World War to Kabul in the twenty-first century.

Rise of the War Machines: The Birth of Precision Bombing in World War II examines the rise of autonomy in air warfare from the inception of powered flight through the first phase of the Combined Bomber Offensive in World War II.

When William Bradford Huie, a reporter for H.

Nazi "e;justice"e; following the attempt on Hitler's life on 20 July 1944 led not only to the brutal execution of scores of conspirators, but also dramatically changed the lives of their families.

Operating astride and above the Arctic Circle, Luftwaffe pilots fought an isolated and almost self-contained war facing environmental challenges in freezing skies that set their experiences apart from those of any other pilots in World War 2.

An exclusive, illustrated account of the tactics of the specialized and effective armored infantry formation of World War II.

Churchill's words, 'never was so much owed by so many to so few', came to encapsulate how, in a few critical months, the entire fate of the British Empire, if not the war, hung in the balance, to be determined by a handful of pilots fighting tirelessly in the skies over Britain.

Children under the Allied bombs in France provides a unique perspective on the Allied bombing of France during the Second World War which killed around 57,000 French civilians.

Nearly eighty years have passed since the Holocaust.

A history of the innovative German air campaign that ensured victory in the rapid conquest of Norway, and an analysis of its importance to World War II and the development of air power.