Ein vergessenes Stück Literaturgeschichte der Stadt BerlinUnter der Leitmetaphorik der leeren Zentrale wird erstmals nicht nur das Ruinenfeld des Nachkriegsberlin mittels eines stadtarchäologischen Zugangs erschlossen, sondern ein literaturgeschichtliches Terrain aus dem Schutt der Überlieferung geholt, das sich sukzessive als Denkfeld sui generis erschließt.
Athen, August 1944: Deutsche Besatzer und griechische Kollaborateure unterdrücken den Widerstand einheimischer Partisaninnen und Partisanen mit brutaler Gewalt und Deportationen, diese antworten mit Anschlägen und Überfällen.
Anhand der Nachgeschichten der Außenlager des Konzentrationslagers Neuengamme zeigt Maik Ullmann auf, wie Erinnern an die Opfer und Überlebenden an den historischen Orten in Deutschland möglich wurde.
Diese Studie analysiert die ukrainische Erinnerungskultur seit der Unabhängigkeit 1991 im Hinblick auf die sowjetischen Soldaten, die im Zweiten Weltkrieg kämpften.
Focusing on the period of the Second World War, this book explores the emergence of surrealist landscape as a genre throughout the period of surrealist exile in the Americas.
Der Erfahrungsbericht des judisch-polnischen Gewerkschaftsanwalts Jerzy Gliksman aus dem Gulag der Jahre 1939-1941 stellt eines der bedeutendsten judischen Zeugnisse aus dem sowjetischen Lagersystem dar.
The Division was created as part of the 1944 expansion of the Waffen SS and was rooted in Hitler's policy of divide and rule that he implemented even among his closest confidants.
This book analyzes a little-known but highly significant document that played a key role in early nuclear history: the Frisch-Peierls memorandum of March 1940.
This book analyzes a little-known but highly significant document that played a key role in early nuclear history: the Frisch-Peierls memorandum of March 1940.
Of all the Allied strategic defensive campaigns in the first half of World War II, the fight to defend Malaya and Singapore provided perhaps the best chance to use special forces to wider effect.
Focusing on the period of the Second World War, this book explores the emergence of surrealist landscape as a genre throughout the period of surrealist exile in the Americas.
Of all the Allied strategic defensive campaigns in the first half of World War II, the fight to defend Malaya and Singapore provided perhaps the best chance to use special forces to wider effect.
The current battle between superstitious and prejudiced forces from the past, against more enlightened modern ones, began when Winston Churchill was appointed colonial secretary in 1920.
This book fills a lacuna in the English-language literature dealing with Norway and the Holocaust by focusing on how Norwegian Jews, and those who facilitated their rescue, remembered the experience of their departure and passage across hostile territory to sanctuary in Sweden.
Neocolonialism, in contemporary discourse, has emerged as a compelling analytical lens to revisit and reassess power structures, global hierarchies, and cultural narratives in a postcolonial world.
Neocolonialism, in contemporary discourse, has emerged as a compelling analytical lens to revisit and reassess power structures, global hierarchies, and cultural narratives in a postcolonial world.
A deeply researched history of Floridas strategic and military roles in World War IIThe first book to share the entire history of Floridas involvement in World War II, State of War explores how the war transformed the state into a major hub of military industry and an important training base for ground, naval, and air forces.
Der 1953 verstorbene Herbert Charles O'Neill, bekannt geworden unter seinem Pseudonym "e;Strategicus"e;, war britischer Journalist und Autor und arbeitete unter anderem in der Redaktion der "e;Daily Mail"e;, als Kolumnist bei "e;The Spectator"e; und als stellvertretender Herausgeber des "e;Observer.
This book fills a lacuna in the English-language literature dealing with Norway and the Holocaust by focusing on how Norwegian Jews, and those who facilitated their rescue, remembered the experience of their departure and passage across hostile territory to sanctuary in Sweden.
On 16 May 1943, 617 Squadron's first mission saw 19 Avro Lancasters deploy bouncing bombs to breach the Mohne and Eder dams, inflicting significant damage on Nazi Germany's industrial Ruhr region.
Napoleon Bonaparte in Egypt addresses a pivotal period in modern Egyptian history at the beginning of the nineteenth century, when Napoleon led his famous military campaign against Egypt.
Ein historisches Werk, das seinesgleichen sucht: Nikolaus Wachsmanns monumentale Geschichte der Konzentrationslager von den improvisierten Anfangen 1933 bis zu ihrer Auflosung 1945 - jetzt in einer aktualisierten Neuausgabe.
"e;By the will of fate I came to play a part in not letting Hitler achieve his final goal of disappearing and turning into a myth I managed to prevent Stalins dark and murky ambition from taking root his desire to hide from the world that we had found Hitlers corpse"e; - Elena Rzhevskaya"e;A telling reminder of the jealousy and rivalries that split the Allies even in their hour of victory, and foreshadowed the Cold War"e;- Tom Parfitt, The GuardianOn May 2,1945, Red Army soldiers broke into Hitlers bunker.
These essays reveal the intensity of the battle between the exterminationist death-making force of Israeli colonialism and the Palestinian determination to produce and sustain a flourishing and liberated collective life Abdel Razzaq Takriti, Palestinian Historian and Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair in Arab Studies, Rice UniversitySocial reproduction theory explores how the daily renewal of human life, and therefore human labour, is essential to capitalism.
ENGAfter the Armenian genocide of 1915, in which over a million Armenians died, thousands of Armenian-Turks lived and worked in the Turkish state alongside those who had persecuted their communities.
De l'ete 1944 et de la Liberation, notre memoire collective a retenu les images en noir et blanc de la liesse populaire, mais egalement celles de femmes tondues exposees a la risee et la brutalite d'une cohue debridee.
Lorsque fortuitement, en 2020, ont ete decouvertes une cinquantaine de lettres ecrites par Pierre Sauveau a sa famille, alors qu'il avait ete envoye en Allemagne nazie par l'Etat francais de Vichy, sa narration au jour le jour est apparue comme une plongee dans la realite.
