Genocide and ethnic cleansing

By September 1944, Allied forces had broken out from the Normandy beachheads, liberated Paris, and found themselves poised on the German border.

During the Second World War Devon was reputedly the most militarized county in the country.

In 1943, University of Washington student Gordon Hirabayashi defied the curfew and mass removal of Japanese Americans on the West Coast, and was subsequently convicted and imprisoned as a result.

At a villa on the shore of the Wannsee, a lake in suburban Berlin, on 20th January 1942 one of the most terrible meetings in human history convened.

Schindlers List meets The Sound of Music as best-selling New York Post investigative journalist Isabel Vincent delves into pre-World-War-II history to recover the amazing story of two British spinsters who masterminded a plan to spirit dozens of Jewish stars and personnel of the German and Austrian opera to England and save them from a terrible fate under the Third Reich.

In June 1940 Britain expected enemy invasion.

In September 2010 the body of Eileen Nearne was found in a flat in Torquay.

A roll-call and history of the ex-students of Brighton College who fell in the Second World War.

As deputy prime minister of Britain's coalition government during World War II, Clement Attlee became one of the most powerful figures in British politics and subsequently played a crucial role in the reshaping of the post-war party-political landscape.

Homme secret, homme de l'ombre par nature autant que par nécessité, Raymond Aubrac aura été intimement lié à plus d'un demi-siècle d'histoire, en France comme à l'étranger.

This book documents the devastating effects of genocide in the world's most destructive human environments since the end of World War II and explores why such events still occur.

Glen Williford lends new insight into the reasons for America s relatively quick comeback from the attack on Pearl Harbor.

A highly illustrated and detailed study of the Gold and Juno Beaches Landings Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy, was the greatest sea-borne military operation in history.

The most important and dramatic carrier battle of World War II, which completely changed the fortunes of both Japan and America.

Under the brutal conditions of the Dachau-Kaufering concentration camp, a handful of young Jews resolved to resist their Nazi oppressors.

During World War II the uniformed heads of the U.

World War II is often seen as a confrontation of technology tanks and aircraft, artillery and engineering.

When Vichy France and the Jews was first published in France in 1981, the reaction was explosive.

Conceived in desperation after the Battle of the Bulge in January 1945, Germany's Operation Nordwind culminated in the frozen Alsatian fields surrounding the Zorn River.

Shortlisted for the 2018 RBC Taylor prize for literary nonfiction';A riveting tale of the previously unknown and fascinating story of the unsung angels who strove to foil the Final Solution.

In 1944, the Yiddish poet Abraham Sutzkever was airlifted to Moscow from the forest where he had spent the winter among partisan fighters.

In this unprecedented series exploring the big story of the Battle of Britain, renowned historian Dilip Sarkar investigates the wider context and intimate details of the epic aerial conflict in the summer of 1940 from all sides.

From 1899 until the American entry into World War II, U.

'Unquestionably the most authoritative, balanced, readable, and meticulously documented introduction to the Third Reich.

Despite the best efforts of a number of historians, many aspects of the ferocious struggle between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during the Second World War remain obscure or shrouded in myth.

When World War II broke out in September 1939 the US Army starved of resources since 1919 numbered just 174,000 men.

Two gripping memoirs by British night-fighter crewmenAction-adventure tales of aerial combat aboard Beaufighter and Mosquito aircraftAccounts of Pathfinders who flew ahead of bomber formations and marked targets deep inside German territoryHow new technologies like airborne radar, one of World War II's best-kept secrets, were usedHow night-fighters helped save British cities from destruction

After the end of World War I, the German Navy came up with the concept of the Panzerschiffe, or Pocket Battleship, as a method of circumventing treaty limitations on the size and types of ship Germany was permitted to build.

A major new interpretation of the Holocaust, contextualizing the destruction of the Jews within Nazi violence against other groups.

World War II was truly a 'world' war, and many nations joined the fight against Germany and the Axis.

After the Second World War, with much of Europe in ruins, the victorious Winston Churchill swore to build a peace across Europe that would last a generation.

This book, spanning the years 1961-1964, is the third in a four-part collection of documents from the archives of the Russian Federation's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Israel State Archives portraying relations between the Soviet Union and the State of Israel.

Rwanda's Gacaca courts provide an innovative response to the genocide of 1994.

Most Holocaust scholars and survivors contend that the event was so catastrophic and unprecedented that it defies authentic representation in feature films.

From Barnardo boy to original virgin soldier; from apprentice journalist in London's Fleet Street to famous novelist.

An illustrated account of the combats in the closing months of World War II between one of America's premier fighter aeroplanes and the product of Japan's effort to introduce fighters that could match American qualitative superiority.

The War Artists' Advisory Committee (WAAC) were responsible for the production of some of the most iconic images of the Second World War.

Karl Haushofer, a Bavarian general and professor, is widely recognized as the "e;father of geopolitics.

An engrossing history of the last year of the Second World War, charting the battles fought between the Soviet Red Army and the Nazis across German soil.

Nazi Germany's MP 38 and MP 40 submachine guns are among World War II's most recognizable weapons.

The Allied agreement after the Second World War did not only partition Germany, it divided the nation along the fault-lines of a new bipolar world order.

In late January 1944 a force of New Zealand soldiers and Allied specialists undertook a daring behind the lines reconnaissance of the Japanese-held Green Islands of Papua New Guinea.

Many books have been written about the Second World War and the majority of them either concentrate on a particular battle, campaign or unit.

In 1941 44, Nazi Germany's Gebirgsj ger - elite mountain troops - clashed repeatedly with land-based units of the Soviet Navy during the mighty struggle on World War II's Eastern Front.

An illustrated study of the clashes between B-29s conducting night raids on Japan and the Japanese nightfighters protecting the Home Islands from 1944 45.

This is a story of a young lad who chose college far away from his small home town of Washington, NJ.

The story of one of Germany's most renowned panzer commanders.

The mass killings in Rwanda in 1994 shocked the world but the international response was ineffective.

This volume provides an in-depth discussion of Saul Friedlander's landmark two-volume history of the Holocaust, Nazi Germany and the Jews.

Corporal Leonard Guttridge was among the many unsung heroes of the Battle of Britain--the Royal Air Force mechanics and armorers who patched bullet holes, repaired engines, refueled empty tanks and replenished ammunition, enabling outnumbered pilots to return to the skies.