Genocide and ethnic cleansing

The battle for Saipan is remembered as one of the bloodiest battles fought in the Pacific during World War II, and was a turning point on the road to the defeat of Japan.

Leutnant Gerhard Ehlert was one of the few survivors of 2.

Complete account of airborne operations in the Pacific theater.

Influenced by the German use of paratroopers early in World War Two, General Sir Robert Cassels, the Commander-in-Chief India, ordered the formation of an airborne cadre in October 1940.

'You couldn't make these stories up: yet they're true, and Lewis does the memory of these extraordinary men full justice in a tale that is both heart-stopping and moving' Evening Standard'Suicidal bravery, untold moral courage and awe-inspiring survival.

Fascists in Exile tells the extraordinary story of the war criminals, collaborators and fascist ultranationalists who were resettled in Australia by the International Refugee Organisation between 1947 and 1952.

A year before the much-heralded second front was opened at Normandy in 1944, the Allies waged a campaign in Sicily and Italy-an assault that was marked by argument and dissent from beginning to end, highlighting the fundamental differences in strategic thinking between the Americans and the British.

The Messerschmitt Bf 109 was the most prominent German fighter type of World War II over 35,000 were built and it served in many different variants and roles throughout the course of the war.

This remarkable memoir tells the compelling story of the near-mythic British district officer who helped shape the first great Allied counteroffensive.

A series of daring missions from World War II, revealed through letters and documents from the main protagonists.

This book provides a rounded biography of Franz (later Sir Francis) Simon, his early life in Germany, his move to Oxford in 1933, and his experimental contributions to low temperature physics approximating absolute zero.

In his 1933 inaugural address, Franklin D.

Holocaust Narratives: Trauma, Memory and Identity Across Generations analyzes individual multi-generational frameworks of Holocaust trauma to answer one essential question: How do these narratives change to not only transmit the trauma of the Holocaust - and in the process add meaning to what is inherently an event that annihilates meaning - but also construct the trauma as a connector to a past that needs to be continued in the present?

Marine combat veteran and award-winning military historian Joseph Alexander takes a fresh look at one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific War.

Leading up to the Pacific War, Japanese naval strategists believed that a decisive fleet engagement would be fought against the United States Navy.

The second edition of the first ever general history of Darfur, bringing the story up to date.

Throughout the first year of the war in the Pacific during World War II the USAAF was relatively ineffective against ships.

This book examines in detail the Japanese Infantryman who was, despite comparisons with the notorious German Waffen SS, an enigma to Westerners.

This book analyses the process of 'reshaping' liberated societies in post-1945 Europe.

The Battle of Britain has held an enchanted place in British popular history and memory throughout the modern era.

Volume two in this "e;expert, anecdote-filled, thoroughly entertaining"e; history of WWII follows The Rise of Germany as the Allied forces turn the tides (Kirkus).

The occupation and liberation of Strasbourg was described by de Gaulle as 'one of the most brilliant episodes in our military history', yet is overshadowed outside France by the Battle of the Bulge.

During World War II, the United States earned the nickname "e;the arsenal of democracy"e; due to its sheer productive output, which included over 3,000,000 trucks and jeeps, 86,000 tanks, 6,750 naval platforms, 300,000 aircraft of all types.

This book explores regional variations in civilians'' attitudes toward the Jewish population in Romania and the occupied Soviet Union.

The ';gripping and meticulously researched' (The Times, London) true story of the determined museum curators who saved the priceless treasures of China's Forbidden City in the years leading up to World War II and beyond.

In the hills of eastern Bosnia sits the small town of Srebrenica--once known for silver mines and health spas, now infamous for the genocide that occurred there during the Bosnian War.

This title deals with the experiences of the American soldiers who fought the Japanese across the Pacific islands, and the specific nature of this combat environment.

Elizabeth Bowen: A Literary Life reinvents Bowen as a public intellectual, propagandist, spy, cultural ambassador, journalist, and essayist as well as a writer of fiction.

Dieses Buch bündelt Aufsätze zum Schwerpunkt Rassenhygiene in der Weimarer Republik und im Nationalsozialismus.

The first full-length study of World War II from the Latin American perspective, this unique volume offers an in-depth analysis of the region during wartime.

Von Jurek Beckers »Jakob der Lügner« bis zu Art Spiegelmans »Maus«: Wichtige Texte der Holocaustliteratur neu gelesen.

Im Jahr der Herausgabe dieses Buches suchen die Menschen in Deutschland, trotz ökonomischem Wohlstand, vermehrt nach Orientierung; haben viele Menschen Angst, vor so Vielem, das kaum zu greifen ist; sind die Menschen in Deutschland seltsam verunsichert, ob Flüchtlinge aus dem Nahen Osten und Afrika aufgenommen werden sollen oder nicht; wird das rechtspopulistische Geschreie immer lauter.

Praise for Sunday Times No.

Work played a central role in Nazi ideology and propaganda, and even today there remain some who still emphasize the supposedly positive aspects of the regime s labor policies, ignoring the horrific and inhumane conditions they produced.

A 2024 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThis book discusses some of the most urgent current debates over the study, commemoration, and politicization of the Holocaust through key critical perspectives.

In this gripping, previously untold story from World War II, Michael Smith examines how code breakers cracked Japans secret codes and won the war in the Pacific.

Beginning in 1942, the Eighth Air Force began a precision bombing raid offensive deep into Nazi Germany, embarking from bases in rural England.

Totally outnumbered throughout their short two-year sojourn in the Western Desert, the crack fighter pilots of the handful of Jagdgeschwader in-theatre fought an effective campaign in support of Rommel's Afrika Korps against the British and American forces.

Pope Pius XII presided over the Catholic Church during one of the most challenging moments in its history.

When a soldier must face multiple opponents at close quarters, few weapons can match the effectiveness of the shotgun.

This book provides a narrative history of the BBC Radio Variety Department exploring, along chronological lines, the workings of, tensions within and the impact of BBC policies on the programme-making department which generated the organisation's largest audiences.

In 1940 a British offensive in the Western Desert provoked a major Italian military disaster.

In this book Alfred Mierzejewski describes how the German economy collapsed under Allied bombing in the last year of World War II.

The Second World War went beyond previous military conflicts.

Named after Klimenti Voroshilov, the People's Commissar for Defence, the KVs proved a nasty surprise for German tank crews during the early days of Operation Barbarossa.

Fuelled by hate.

This book delves into the intertwined narratives of Poland and Germany's post-war experiences, shedding light on their shared trauma from World War II and subsequent confrontations with communism.