Genocide and ethnic cleansing

Looting has long been recognized as one of the crimes committed by the Third Reich during World War II, a crime which stripped economic wealth and artistic treasures from the populations the Nazis terrorized.

A fully illustrated history of the Royal Air Force while on operations, publishing to mark the centenary of its foundation in World War I.

The Bildungsroman in a Genocidal Age argues that the humanist ideal of Bildung, the cultivation of the potentialities of the self through self-reflection, travel, and varied social intercourse, has been revitalized in an age of genocidal violence.

This concise yet detailed overview gives a balanced account of this key Blitzkrieg campaign in the Balkans during the opening years of World War II.

This book discusses the merits of the theory of agonistic memory in relation to the memory of war.

The encirclement of the German 6th Army at Stalingrad in mid-November 1942 and its final collapse in February 1943 was a signature defeat for Hitler, as more than 100,000 of his soldiers were marched off into captivity.

The colossal scale of World War II required a mobilization effort greater than anything attempted in all of the world's history.

Eight World War II battles are examined here from the perspective of the U.

Many books on Holocaust survivors deal with their lives in the Displaced Persons camps, with memory and remembrance, and with the nature of their testimonies.

Throughout the Second World War, a wide range of people, including political leaders and government officials, experts and armchair internationalists, civil society groups and private citizens talked about and formulated plans to ensure national security and to promote individual well-being in the postwar world.

Incorporating published and archival material, this volume fills an important gap in the history of the Jewish experience during World War II, describing how the war affected Jews living along the southern rim of the Mediterranean and the Levant, from Morocco to Iran.

In the Axis War on the side of Germany, Mussolini's Italy was responsible for serious war crimes, especially in Yugoslavia and Greece.

Was bleibt 80, 100 Jahre nach dem Ende des Holocaust?

A fascinating account of one of the most successful spying operations of World War IILong recognized as one of the most successful (and ruthless) spy networks in history, the Red Orchestra was a group of Soviet cells that operated throughout Germany and occupied Europe until late 1943.

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.

Der "lange Zweite Weltkrieg" der Niederlande als integrierte Geschichte der Gewalt unter deutscher Besatzung und im indonesischen Unabhängigkeitskrieg.

The forced migration of neuroscientists, both during and after the Second World War, is of growing interest to international scholars.

Mining the borderlands where history meets literature in Britain and Europe as well as America, this book shows how the imminence and outbreak of World War II ignited the imaginations of writers ranging from Ernest Hemingway, W.

After suffering devastating losses in the early stages of the Second World War, the United Kingdom's Royal Air Force established an Operational Research Section within bomber command in order to drastically improve the efficiency of bombing missions targeting Germany.

The American military occupation of Germany lasted five years.

Offering a window into a critical era in Japanese American life, Pacific Citizens collects key writings of Larry S.

'Addictive and deeply moving' Independent'Utterly gripping' Anthony Beevor, Daily Telegraph'Enthralling .

Drawing on archival sources and eyewitness accounts, this book explores Soviet Russians'' experience of Nazi rule in German-occupied northwest Russia.

Did President Roosevelt and other high-ranking U.

Action-adventure narrative about elite German airborne troops.

This book provides a penetrating look into Franklin D.

Wie eine Institution zunächst die NS-»Lebensraumpolitik« mit prägte und sich nach dem Krieg neu erfand.

Armenian national identity has long been associated with what has come to be known as the Armenian Genocide of 1915.

In March 1940, Oberleutnant Wilhelm Walther transferred from Aufklarungs-Abteilung 5, an armored reconnaissance unit, to Bau-Lehr-Bataillon z.

In the months leading up to the outbreak of World War Two, Britain rushed to evacuate nearly 10,000 Jewish children from the Nazi occupied territories.

Volume 1 offers a comprehensive and authoritative new account of the war''s military and strategic history.

The photographs of the unknown Warsaw Ghetto little boy and the well-known Anne Frank became famous documents worldwide, representing the Holocaust.

Battalion- and company-level account of the vital contributions of Canadian soldiers to victory in Europe in World War II.

During the night of 25 July 1941, assassins planted a time bomb in the bed of the former French Interior Minister, Marx Dormoy.

This book attempts to understand the psychological roots of goodness and evil.

Nazi Germany's invasion of the Netherlands in May 1940 marked the beginning of five years of terror for the Dutch people.

Charles Sydnor relates the political and military experience of the SS Totenkopfdivision to the institutional development of the SS and the ideological objectives of Nazi Germany.

This study provides empirically based insights into the relationship between war, statehood and peaceful conflict resolution during the second Sudanese civil war and following the independence of South Sudan 2011.

In the early days of World War II, a young Marine named Charles Fenn was recruited by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) for undercover operations in the China-Burma-India theatre.

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

Through analyses of three eventful years in Nazi Germany's history - the Kristallnacht pogrom, the invasion of Poland and the invasion of Soviet Russia - this book explores the violence of states.

While it is true that genocide prevention is not what tends to land on the front pages of national newspapers today, it is what prevents the worst headlines from ever being made.

The tools of reason offer the best hope for the international community to confront the increasing incidents of hate throughout the world.

Voices of the Holocaust and the act of memory.

The Second World War was not the 'Good War' of legend.

A stimulating overview of the works, life and times of this important twentieth-century writer.

The forgotten story of the major naval operations conducted in the Philippines by the US and Japanese navies after Leyte Gulf up to the US invasion of Luzon in January 1945.

Close to a time when there will be no more survivors to speak about their suffering, this innovative study takes much-needed stock of the past, present and future of Holocaust testimony.

Im Schatten des Zweiten Weltkriegs versuchte die kroatische Ustasa-Bewegung, gewaltsam einen ethnisch homogenen Nationalstaat zu schaffen.