Genocide and ethnic cleansing

The German Luftwaffe's air raid on Coventry, England on the night of November 14, 1940 represented a new kind of air warfare.

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In March 1945, at the end of the Second World War, hundreds of unarmed Albanian recruits were massacred by Yugoslav partisans.

For Frederick the Great, the prescription for warfare was simple: kurz und vives (short and lively)wars that relied upon swift, powerful, and decisive military operations.

This is the story of a grandmother, and what happened to her and to Eastern Europe in World War II.

The Wirral Peninsula in north-west England experienced the tragedies and hardships of war at first hand during the two world wars.

On 12 September 1944, a wolfpack of U.

How can genocide be witnessed through imaginative literature?

A thorough introduction to the German Navy's advanced designs during World War II, exploring lesser-known weapons, submarines, and high-speed vessels.

The Italian Campaign is truly an amazing, and often heartbreaking, story, and it certainly generates sympathy as well as respect for the soldiers who fought there, particularly the sacrificed Texas and Polish soldiers as well as the British "e;D-Day Dodgers.

Two decades before the war against Ukraine, a "e;special operation"e; was launched against Russian historical memory, aggressively reshaping the nation's understanding of its history and identity.

In the immediate aftermath of World War II, the United States Army became the principal agent of American foreign policy.

It is no coincidence that many of Alistair MacLean's most successful novels were sea stories.

Action-packed history of the Germans in Africa in World War II.

Using the engaging case of British security policy between the world wars, this book argues that an effective balance of power, which is the key to a stable international system, is a deliberate act of policy and that leaders play a determinative role in building an effective balance.

Das Buch schildert die Geschichte der Wiener Häfen, bevor der Ausbau Alberns zum Getreidehafen ab 1938 beleuchtet wird.

This book offers the first in-depth intellectual and cultural history of British subversive propaganda during the Second World War.

At the outbreak of World War II the German Kriegsmarine still had a relatively small U-boat arm.

The Special Boat Service was a small force during World War II, never more than about 300 men.

Winston Churchill, the great wartime leader and peacetime Prime Minister, is one of the dominating figures of the 20th century.

Tourism has long been important to Scotland.

Theologian.

First full-length history of the largest and most successful airborne offensive ever.

Amid ethnic violence, political corruption, and petty professionalintrigue, an artist tries to live free of lies.

This book explores, for the first time, the impact of the Holocaust on the gender identities of Jewish men.

Collective memory carries the past into the present.

In Invasion On Stephen M.

Admittedly small and vulnerable, PT boats were, nevertheless, fast-the fastest craft on the water during World War II-and Dick Keresey's account of these tough little fighters throws new light on their contributions to the war effort.

Based largely upon unpublished sources, Omer Bartov's study looks closely at the background of the German army on the Eastern Front during the Second World War.

Auf riskanten Wegen verhalf der junge Wiener Anwalt Willy Perl Tausenden Jüdinnen und Juden aus Zentral- und Osteuropa Ende der 1930er Jahre zu einem neuen Leben.

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORYSHORTLISTED FOR THE GILDER LEHRMAN PRIZE FOR MILITARY HISTORY'A masterpiece.

The great majority of Holocaust scholarship concentrates heavily, if not almost completely, on the Final Solution from the German side.

Dieses vierte Buch und der erste Roman des Autors Eberhard B.

Written by two authors with unparalleled first-hand experience of Darfur, this is the definitive guide.

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.

This poignant history of the Tuskegee Airmen separates myth and legend from fact, placing them within the context of the growth of American airpower and the early stirrings of the African American Civil Rights Movement.

Seventy-five years after the Battle of Britain, the Few's role in preventing invasion continues to enjoy a revered place in popular memory.

Das Tagebuch der Thea Gersten, der späteren Thea Hurst, eingebunden in den Gardinenstoff ihres Leipziger Kinderzimmers, liegt über sechs Jahrzehnte in Theas Nachttisch-Schublade.

Originally published in 1987, Out of the Cage brings vividly to life the experiences of working women from all social groups in the two World Wars.

Theopolitics and the Era of the Witness focuses on witnessing in the aftermath of political atrocity or genocide.

This book analyzes how Second World War heritage is being reframed in the memorial museums of the post-socialist, post-conflict states of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia.

The representation of the Holocaust in literature and film has confronted lecturers and students with some challenging questions.

The Pacific War changed abruptly in November 1943 when Admiral Chester Nimitz unleashed a relentless 18-month, 4,000-mile offensive across the Central Pacific, spearheaded by fast carrier task forces and U.

Memory of War in France examines France in the era of world war through the unconventional eyes of the veteran, activist and novelist, Cesar Fauxbras.

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill is known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War Two.

Comment la population française a-t-elle vécu la défaite de 1940 ?

Von der Universität in die Konzentrationslager: eindrucksvolle frühe Berichte über Buchenwald und Mittelbau-DoraDie im Zweiten Weltkrieg nach Clermont-Ferrand verlagerte Université de Strasbourg war ein Zentrum des französischen Widerstandes gegen die Nationalsozialisten und deutschen Besatzer.

The action-packed story of the WWII aviators known as the “362nd Suicide Outfit,” including 150 photographs.

The Norwegian campaign, fought in 1940, early in the Second World War in Europe, is overshadowed by the campaign in Poland that preceded it and the German blitzkrieg in the Low Countries and France that followed, yet it was a close contest from the military point of view and it had a far-reaching impact on the rest of the war.