Genocide and ethnic cleansing

Collected here for the first time are the remarkable and moving stories of the 27 British recipients of the Hero of the Holocaust award.

A thorough examination of one of the most controversial operations in World War 2Operation Pointblank was the code name for the United States Army Air Force's attempt to destroy German fighter capability through the use of daylight strategic bombing in advance of the D-Day landings.

A highly illustrated updated study of Patton's daring attempt to bounce the river Rhine in March 1945.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) first argued that there were continuities between the age of European imperialism and the age of fascism in Europe in The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951).

This book reappraises the origins of the European Union through the lens of the private experts who advised Western governments on war and peace throughout the 1940s, particularly the partnership between the so-called 'Father of Europe' Jean Monnet and the US think tank Council on Foreign Relations.

The Second World War almost destroyed Stalin's Soviet Union.

On 6 April 1943, Ian Reid, an officer in the Black Watch, was wounded and captured in Tunisia and sent off to an Italian prisoner-of-war camp.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWNLONGLISTED FOR THE WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE'A masterly account' THE TIMES'A brilliant book' OBSERVER'Excellent .

As the Cold War followed on the heels of the Second World War, as the Nuremburg Trials faded in the shadow of the Iron Curtain, both the Germans and the West were quick to accept the idea that Hitler's army had been no SS, no Gestapo, that it was a professional force little touched by Nazi politics.

The Battle of Arnhem is one of the most iconic Western front battles of the Second World War.

At the age of twelve, American William R.

A detailed guide to the US forces in Bolt Action: Third Edition, containing updated special rules, unit entries, and force selection guides.

Not long after the attack on Pearl Harbor that drew the United States into World War II, the federal government rounded up more than a hundred thousand people of Japanese descent-both immigrants and native-born citizens-and began one of the most horrific mass-incarceration events in US history.

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This book examines the role of the Grumman F4F Wildcat, the US Navy's standard carrier fighter at the start of the Pacific War, and its clashes against the Imperial Japanese Naval Air Force's Mitsubishi A6M Zero-sen.

Between December 1938 and September 1939, nearly ten thousand refugee children from Central Europe, mostly Jewish, found refuge from Nazism in Great Britain.

The Union Navy played a vital role in winning the Civil War by blockading Confederate ports, cooperating with the Union Army in amphibious assaults, and operating on the Mississippi River and its tributaries.

London, 15 September 1940.

In the darkest days of World War II, the British planned a daring airborne operation to capture the secret of the new German radar.

Geoffrey Robertson QC, acclaimed author of The Case of the Pope, presents a freshly updated version of his masterwork, Crimes Against HumanityIn this fresh edition of the book that has inspired the global justice movement, Geoffrey Robertson QC explains why we must hold political and military leaders accountable for genocide, torture and mass murder - the crimes against humanity that have disfigured the world.

Army Girls is the intimate story of the final few women who served in World War II and are still alive to tell their tale.

“Told by a ‘been there, done that’ combat commander, McLaughlin gives us precise accounts of such air battles as the devastating bombing of Schweinfurt.

Few episodes in American history were more transformative than World War II, and in no region did it bring greater change than in the West.

This book is the definitive account of one of historys most infamous death factories, where approximately 800,000 people lost their lives.

An illustrated exploration of the development, technology and operations of Wilde Sau fighters in the night skies over Germany during the Defence of the Reich.

How do you get away with the murder of 11 million people?

The Sunday Times bestseller now updated with a new forewordAmong millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each passed through its infamous gates with a secret.

In a bid to recapture territory conceded following the Winter War of 1939 40, Finnish forces cooperated with Nazi Germany and other Axis powers during the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941.

"e;Takes the reader into the Pacific war and offers a front-row seat to the exploits of the Wright Project and their highly innovative technology.

A highly illustrated study of Operation Torch, the first major Allied amphibious invasion of the war.

This study challenges the rose-tinted view of the interwar period in Romanian history, which is often judged against the darkness of almost five decades of Communist rule.

This book proposes a significant new interpretation of the relations between Italian partisans and British forces during the Italian campaign of 1943-1945.

"e;The lesson that The Pink Triangle elicits from the Holocaust is the realization that we are still haunted by the specters of the Third Reich.

Seventy-five years ago, on 1 September 1939, Germany invaded Poland.

Choice Outstanding Academic TitleA groundbreaking account of the Soviet Air Force in World War II, the original version of this book, Red Phoenix, was hailed by the Washington Post as both brilliant and monumental.

This epic story recounts the exceptional valor and endurance of American troops that battled Japanese forces in the Philippines during World War II.

"e;From the moment I got to Auschwitz I was completely detached.

A full understanding of the historical process must include studies of the social and economic conditions of societies as well as biographies of the people on which a clear understanding of history is based-but not just the "e;great"e; people.

Long before the start of the Second World War it had been believed that strategic bombing would be the deciding factor in any future conflict.

Why were the Nazis so successful in deporting Jews?

This book introduces an English-speaking public to the life of Madeleine Riffaud - one of the last living leaders of the French Resistance.

In the later years of the Second World War Germany was subjected to a tremendous onslaught by the bomber commands of both the RAF and USAAF, as well as being assaulted by land.

A detailed, pictorial history of the 1 1/2-ton Chevy truck and its use by the U.

Although often overlooked, anti-Polish sentiment was central to Nazi ideology.

Bradley describes the early WWII conflicts in New Guinea.

The scourge of Allied shipping during World War II, the U-Boot Waffe was one of the most feared components of Hitler's war machine, yet the Kriegsmarine was the least political branch of the Third Reich.