Genocide and ethnic cleansing

This historical account re-examines the Allied attack on Dresden during World War II, revealing the justification behind the controversial aerial bombing.

A masterpiece of World War II heroism, this book catches the spirit and tone of an incredible fighting ship, the USS Aaron Ward, a destroyer-turned-minelayer on the radar picket lines in the Pacific.

Drawing on documents in US and British archives, Douglas Ford explores why the belligerents in the Pacific war fought the way that they did.

Raymond-Raoul Lambert's Diary has been among the most important untranslated records of the experience of French Jews in the Holocaust.

In Because of Eva, an American Jewish woman travels to Eastern Europe and Israel to solve mysteries in her family's past by delving into World War II and Holocaust history.

This book offers a unique approach to memory studies by focusing on local memory work conducted across the divide of the fall of Communism, whereas other histories have consistently used 1989 as a watershed moment.

Ruth Kluger is one of the child-survivors of the Holocaust.

The Kennedys considered their home in Hyannis Port, Cape Cod, 'The big white house', to be a haven from their busy lives.

Avinoam Patt examines the relationship between two of the most significant events in modern Jewish history, the Holocaust and the creation of the state of Israel.

Despite considerable progress in research and practice in the constructive transformation of intractable conflicts beginning in the 1970s, many terribly destructive conflicts have recently erupted.

This book presents authoritative accounts of the evolution, development and application of Royal Naval radar from its inception in 1935 until the end of World War 2.

The Allied assault on Normandy beaches was an almost flawless success, but it was to take three months of bitter fighting before the German defence of Normandy finally collapsed and Paris was liberated.

On December 14, 1944, Japanese soldiers massacred 139 of 150 American POWs.

A compelling account of the men who worked and fought for Nazi terror organization, the SS, during the Second World War.

Proverbs in Africa are capsules of the wisdom of the people.

The New York Times said of Jozef Hieronim Retinger that he was on intimate terms with most leading statesmen of the Western World, including presidents of the United States.

Between the two world wars, thousands of European antifascists were pushed to act by the political circumstances of the time.

The extraordinary story of the Ulma family is one of faith, courage, and heroic love of neighbor.

The Destruction of Jewish Cemeteriesin Poland offers a comprehensive examination of the history of Jewish cemeteries in Poland, shedding light on an overlooked aspect of Holocaust history.

As the Allies advance towards Germany, they face dogged resistance from the hard-pressed German forces.

Richard Hammond offers a major reassessment of the role of the war at sea in Allied victory in the Mediterranean region.

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

Le but de ce travail est une tentative d’analyser la Shoah par l’intermédiaire de notions éthiques fondamentales.

This WWII history examines the most consequential and hard-fought battle between Greek and Italian forces in Albania.

Why violence in the Congo has continued despite decades of international intervention Well into its third decade, the military conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been dubbed a "e;forever war"e;-a perpetual cycle of war, civil unrest, and local feuds over power and identity.

A new look at how Britain's defence establishment learned to engage Japan's armed forces as the Pacific War progressed.

When do you think the Second World War ended?

Ce livre nest pas un simple ouvrage historique.

This book examines Jewish writers and intellectuals in Austria, analyzing filmic and electronic media alongside more traditional publication formats over the last 25 years.

In addition to concentration camps, World War II Germany was also home to 54 prisoner-of-war camps, the largest of which was Stalag IVB.

A study of Carl Goerdeler, the German resistance leader who consistently engaged in efforts to protect the Jews against persecution.

The Nazi's were implacably opposed to feminism and women's independence.

This is the story of a remarkable life and a journey, from the privileged world of Prussian aristocracy, through the horrors of World War II, to high society in the television age of postwar America.

Like virtually every other aspect of American life, baseball was affected by World War II.

The Sherman tank served with most Allied armies during the Second World War and it is justly famous for the role it played in the Normandy landings and the subsequent drive into Germany.

From 1942 to 1950, nearly twenty thousand Poles found refuge from the horrors of war-torn Europe in camps within Britain s African colonies, including Uganda, Tanganyika, Kenya and Northern and Southern Rhodesia.

This book is a collective biography of the 318 men who joined the German Navy in 1934 to become officers.

This book explores how the women's orchestra at Auschwitz-Birkenau has been remembered in both media and popular culture since the end of the Second World War.

In 1944, the Yiddish poet Abraham Sutzkever was airlifted to Moscow from the forest where he had spent the winter among partisan fighters.

In 1940, when Hitler's tanks reached the English Channel and German bombs fell on London, the invasion of the United Kingdom seemed imminent.

Created by a long-forgotten Austrian nobleman, Adolf Odkolek von Augezd, the air-cooled Hotchkiss machine gun was the first to function effectively by tapping propellant gas from the bore as the gun fired.

Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumJewish Responses to Persecution, 1933-1946 offers a new perspective on Holocaust history by presenting documentation that describes the manifestations and meanings of Nazi Germany's "e;Final Solution"e; from the Jewish perspective.

Germany was never able to match the power of the Allied air forces with their great four-engine bombers, the Lancasters, Liberators and Flying Fortresses.

The 150,000 women who served in the Women's Army Corps are now seen as the undersung heroes of the Second World War.

Captain John Alexander served in the Royal Engineers and was posted to the 17th Indian Division, known as the Black Cats, which was sent into Burma against the Japanese as part of the 14th Army.

Das Standardwerk „Deutsche Exilliteratur 1933-1950“ von Hans-Albert Walter wird mit diesem Band abgeschlossen.

Hitlers Serienkiller-Ausbruch ist das Ergebnis des Wahns einer medizinischen Fakultät, es gäbe "minderwertiges" Leben.

Continues Balkoski's acclaimed multivolume history of the U.