Genocide and ethnic cleansing

Why has shame recently displaced guilt as a dominant emotional reference in the West?

Commentary on memorials to the Holocaust has been plagued with a sense of monument fatigue , a feeling that landscape settings and national spaces provide little opportunity for meaningful engagement between present visitors and past victims.

The Holocaust in Italian Culture, 1944-2010 is the first major study of how postwar Italy confronted, or failed to confront, the Holocaust.

The scope of Britain's wartime Middle East Command stretched far beyond the Libyan desert where the 8th Army's most famous battles were fought.

It seemed that whenever Mussolini acted on his own, it was bad news for Hitler.

Historical research into the Armenian Genocide has grown tremendously in recent years, but much of it has focused on large-scale questions related to Ottoman policy or the scope of the killing.

An Independent Book of the MonthWhat was the mood of the British people during the middle and later years of the Second World War?

This Palgrave Handbook examines the ways in which researchers and practitioners theorise, analyse, produce and make use of testimony.

A definitive history of the 20th century's first major genocide on its 100th anniversaryStarting in early 1915, the Ottoman Turks began deporting and killing hundreds of thousands of Armenians in the first major genocide of the twentieth century.

Nearly thirty years ago, Monika Vrzgulova took part in the very first oral history research project aimed at Holocaust survivors in Slovakia.

A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE WORK OF NON-FICTION A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR'Meticulous, clinical and sobering, a shockingly important and incisive book' David OlusogaVast and revelatory, Dan Gretton's I You We Them is an unprecedented study of the perpetrators of crimes against humanity: the 'desk killers' who ordered and directed some of the worst atrocities of the modern era.

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.

Why did the twentieth century witness unprecedented organized genocide?

An enlisted radioman recalls his years of action in the Pacific with candor and humor.

This study explores an exemplary instance of the close interaction between private and official interests in planning and executing the programs of the Nazi government, namely the acquisition in 1941 of the Rombach steel works by the German industrialist Friedrich Flick.

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Seventy years after the end of the Second World War we still do not fully appreciate the intensity of the lived experience of people and communities involved in resistance movements and subjected to German occupation.

Just as World War I introduced Americans to Europe, making an indelible impression on thousands of farmboys who were changed forever after they saw Paree, so World War II was the beginning of Americas encounter with the East an encounter whose effects are still being felt and absorbed.

Courage and Fear is a study of a multicultural city in times when all norms collapse.

A concisely detailed guide to the Allied tanks that fought from D-Day to the break out from Normandy, their qualities, numbers and performance, and how they were used on the battlefield.

The 1994 Rwandan genocide against the Tutsi was the signature moral horror of the late 20th century.

When Hitler came to power and the German army began to sweep through Europe, almost 20,000 Jewish refugees fled to Shanghai.

Our Mothers' War is a stunning and unprecedented portrait of women during World War II, a war that forever transformed the way women participate in American society.

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"Die Jahre der Verfolgung und Vernichtung unter der Herrschaft von Nationalsozialismus und Faschismus 1938 bis 1945" ist ein Auszug aus dem dreiteiligen Sammelwerk "Jüdisches Leben im historischen Tirol".

Winner of The 2020 Best Book Award for Military History -- American Bookfest An elite platoon of Marine Scout-Snipers, Lieutenant Frank Tachovsky's ';40 Thieves' were chosen for their willingness to defy rules and beat all-comers.

Why was Canada not preparing for the Second World War when the rest of the world was ready to meet Hitler's threats?

"e;This memoir is a tribute to the author's service in World War II.

The thousands uprooted and displaced by the Holocaust had a profound cultural impact on the countries in which they sought refuge, with numerous Holocaust escapees attaining prominence as scientists, writers, filmmakers and artists.

'A devastating new account.

The First World War cannot be sufficiently documented and understood without considering the analytical category of gender.

This book looks at the representations of modern war by analysing texts and examining the ways in which authors relate to the atrocious horrors of war.

A detailed comparative study of the KV-1 Soviet heavy tank and the Panzerjager that had aided the German blitzkrieg, but met its match on the Eastern Front.

This book focuses on a central notion in Theodor.

Compiles firsthand accounts of Polish resistance, exile, and wartime struggles during WWII.

When World War I began, Karnig Panian was only five years old, living among his fellow Armenians in the Anatolian village of Gurin.

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.

The German destroyer fleet of World War II consisted of nine classes: the Diether Von Roeder Class, the Leberecht Maas Class and the wartime classes Z23, Z35, Z37, Z40, Z43, Z46 and Z52.

This book examines the organizational development, mobilization, deployment and combat actions of World War II US Army infantry divisions up until the end of 1943.

Helmut Ortner reveals a staggering history of perpetrators, victims and bystanders in Hitler's Germany.

This utterely compelling memoir opens with a sceptical nine-year-old Bryan Magee being taught the facts of life.

A detailed, compact account of the first tank duels between American and German soldiers in the heat and dust of the North African desert.

This book explores the growing trend of intermediality in cinematic representations of the Holocaust.

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As the first comprehensive treatment of the American entry into World War II to appear in over thirty-five years, Waldo Heinrichs' volume places American policy in a global context, covering both the European and Asian diplomatic and military scenes, with Roosevelt at the center.

This book argues that one means of preventing genocide is to think concretely about our flesh-and-blood relations to fellow human beings.

An innovative mix of history and psychological research, this book tells the story of one family of Holocaust survivors and reveals how each generation has passed on memories of the War and the Shoah to the next.

The trial of major Nazi war criminals in Nuremberg was a landmark event in the development of modern international law, and continues to be highly influential in our understanding of international criminal law and post-conflict justice.

The Mitsubishi A6M Zero-sen was Japan's Spitfire.