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A photographic history of World War II's largest naval battle, in which the Japanese and Americans squared off in the Philippines.

Caring for the wounded in the World War II Pacific Theater posed serious challenges to doctors and surgeons.

Initially designed as a fast medium bomber, the Junkers Ju 88 was also used as a Zerst rer heavy fighter by the Luftwaffe.

The vivid account of a war correspondent shot down over Germany and taken prisoner.

An intriguing analysis of how place constructs memory and how memory constructs place, Remembering the Holocaust shows how visiting sites such as Auschwitz shapes the transfer of Holocaust memory from one generation to the next.

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Das Schicksal der spanischen Häftlinge in einem deutschen Konzentrationslager.

De l’exil, de la déportation, de l’internement, de l’extermination mis en œuvre par l’Allemagne nazie contre les populations juives, l’art est l’un des rares domaines où une reconnaissance, une déférence, un hommage peuvent être apportés aux survivants et à leurs descendants, privés de la transmission mémorielle, enfants sans enfance et endeuillés de morts sans sépulture.

The two concepts at the centre of this book: Europe, and the Second World War, are constantly changing in public perception.

This book, first published in 1946, collects documents illustrating the foreign policy of the Soviet Union during the Second World War.

During World War II Nathalie "e;Lily"e; Sergueiew, a woman of mystery, confidently seduced the German Intelligence Service into employing her as a spy against their British enemy.

Key documents relating to Auchinleck's career up to the First Battle of El Alamein in July 1942, including his time as Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army and of the Middle East Theatre.

A PEN America Literary Award FinalistA Goodreads Choice Awards NomineeAn Amazon Best of the Year SelectionThe untold story of some of WW2's most hidden figures and the heartbreaking tragedy that unites them all.

Local resistance to German-led Axis occupation occurred throughout the European continent during World War II, taking a wide range of formsnoncooperation and disinformation, sabotage and espionage, and armed opposition and full-scale partisan warfare.

Sonia Combes Buch Ein Leben gegen ein anderes ist nicht nur ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des 'Opfertauschs' im Konzentrationslager Buchenwald, sondern darüber hinaus eine Reflexion auf die revisionistische Geschichtsschreibung des Antifaschismus in Deutschland sowie allgemein auf den Einfluss des Zeitgeistes auf die Zeitgeschichtsschreibung.

In the tradition of Band of Brothers, historian and former paratrooper James M.

In the 75th anniversary of CARA (Council for Assisting Refugee Academics), this book explores the experiences and achievements of refugee academics and their rescuers to recount Britain's past relationship with overseas victims of persecution, and as vital questions about our present-day attitudes towards immigration and asylum.

Using first-hand accounts and many previously unpublished images, this highly illustrated new book provides a detailed analysis of Germany's Panzergrenadier in World War II.

An illustrated history of the long Cold War careers of the US Navy's last gun destroyers, from the modernized World War II-era Fletcher-class to the Forrest Sherman-class.

Since the end of World War II, the strategic bombing of Germany has inspired numerous studies, countless books and several documentary films, and it is not surprising.

After World War II displaced more than sixty million people, Cold War politics opened global eyes and wallets to European displaced persons.

Throughout history, battlefields have placed a soldiers instinct for self-preservation in direct opposition to the armys insistence that he do his duty and put himself in harms way.

Born into a Jewish family in Lvov, Poland in the early-1930s, Nelly Ben-Or was to experience, at a very young age, the trauma of the Holocaust.

When Adolf Hitler seized Vienna in the Anschluss of 1938, he called the city "e;a pearl to which he would give a proper setting.

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Living as a carpenter who had spent time working in a watch factory, Georg Elser was just an ordinary member of society living in Munich.

This unique window on history employs hundreds of images and written records from Japanese periodicals during World War II to trace the nation's transformation from a colorful, cosmopolitan empire in 1937 to a bleak "e;total war"e; society facing imminent destruction in 1945.

Very Special Ships is the first full-length book about the Abdiel-class fast minelayers, which were considered the fastest and most versatile to serve in the Royal Navy during World War II.

This book explores the military events and diplomatic games in the later years of the Second World War through which Josip Broz Tito's Yugoslav Partisans resistance movement gained the support of the Allies and, eventually, control over Yugoslavia itself.

Ursula Rosenfeld was born in 1925 in Quakenbruck, Germany to a Liberal Jewish family.

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Based on never previously explored personal accounts and archival documentation, this book examines life and death in the Theresienstadt ghetto, seen through the eyes of the Jewish victims from Denmark.

By January 1945, Nazi Germany's defeat seemed inevitable yet much fighting remained.

A fully illustrated guide to Germany's use of Panzer IV Tanks during the Normandy campaign, perfect for WWII buffs, modelers, and wargamers.

This fully illustrated book assesses the trial of strength between US Navy PT boats and Japanese destroyers operating in the Solomon Islands during 1942 43.

"e;Roesler's work emphasizes three interesting individuals with some discussion on technical details and mission parameters.

The mysterious life and career of Desmond Morton, Intelligence officer and personal adviser to Winston Churchill during the Second World War, is exposed for the first time in this study based on full access to official records.

"e; The 1943 invasion of Bougainville, largest and northernmost of the Solomon Islands, and the naval battles during the campaign for the island, contributed heavily to the defeat of the Japanese in the Pacific War.

This book studies the role of Christian churches in the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

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

This book is an exploration of the scope and methods used by Germany in its extermination and Germanization policy aimed at Polish children in the years 1939 to 1945.