Genocide and ethnic cleansing

This book explains why the ferocity of the Nazi attack upon the Jews took many by surprise.

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This book, part media history and part group biography, tells the story of the BBC's attempts to reach out to listeners in Nazi Germany at a time when Anglo-German relations were particularly strained.

Published to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day, an unforgettable never-before-told first-person account of World War II: the true story of an American paratrooper who survived D-Day, was captured and imprisoned in a Nazi work camp, and made a daring escape to freedom.

In post-war Britain, left-wing policy maker and sociologist Michael Young played a major role in shaping British intellectual, political, and cultural life, using his study of the social sciences to inform his political thought.

Military historian Victor Brooks argues that the year 1943 marked a significant shift in the World War II balance of power from the Axis to Allied forces.

James Franck (1882-1964) was one of the twentieth century's most respected scientists, known both for his contributions to physics and for his moral courage.

Although far better known for their exploits over the war torn skies of Germany and Italy, the USAAF's premier fighters, the P-47 and P-51, also made significant contributions to the victory against Japan from 1943 onwards.

Terezn, as it was known in Czech, or Theresienstadt as it was known in German, was operated by the Nazis between November 1941 and May 1945 as a transit ghetto for Central and Western European Jews before their deportation for murder in the East.

First published in 1979, Nemesis at Potsdam discusses the expulsion and spoliation of the Germans from most of central and easter Europe during the Second World War, a process which over two million did not survive.

A complete history of naval combat in the Mediterranean and North African campaigns throughout WWII.

This book examines the relentlessly polarized West German intellectual debates about the Nazi past.

A common view is that the Second World War in Europe ended in May 1945.

The Boeing B-17, which has come to epitomise the American war effort in Europe, took the fight to Germans from the late summer of 1942 through to VE-Day.

It is a common belief that Jews did nothing to resist their own fate in the Holocaust.

When first published in 1995, this book was hailed as an absolutely indispensable contribution to the history of the Pacific War.

Adolf Hitler's Great War military experiences in no way qualified him for supreme command.

This dictionary gives an enormous amount of basic information on the Third Reich era by listing, and often depicting, German terms connected to Nazism and the Germany of World War II.

Illustrated throughout, this book explains the composition and qualities of the Soviet tank force that fought Germany's mighty Panzers at the biggest tank battle in history.

Women on the Front Line explains how women went from unacknowledged participation in combat in the Second World War to the opening of all combat roles by 2018.

Originally published in 1962, the title of this book is taken from Genesis and is an allusion to the establishment of a Jewish National State as the successful termination of long centuries of exile.

The Holocaust is usually understood as a European story.

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Diese vier Bände beinhalten die weitgehend vollständige Chronologie der Aufenthaltsorte und Reisen des deutschen Diktators Adolf Hitler (1889-1945).

On his 81st birthday, without explanation, Karen Fisher-Alaniz's father placed two weathered notebooks on her lap.

An account of the decisive WWII battles that helped shape Asia’s future: “Reminds us of the high stakes at risk for both Allies and Axis powers in Burma.

During World War II, the Solomon Islands became the scene of a titanic struggle between Allied and Japanese forces.

This work is a reexamination of the decisions regarding the 1944 Warsaw Uprising made by the leadership of the underground Polish Army (AK), as well as the questionable attitudes of senior Polish commanders in exile in London.

Errett Lujan served during World War II with the U.

The advent of combined arms operations in World War II created the need for specialized armored vehicles.

This book explores the design and deployment of American airborne tanks from the earliest concepts to their actual use.

Ernie Coleman survived the worst open-sea defeat in US Navy history.

Since the 1990s scholars have focused heavily on the perpetrators of the Holocaust, and have presented a complex and diverse picture of perpetrators.

An illustrated account of how the Royal Rumanian Air Force claimed their kills against the Soviets.

This carefully researched study is the first to chronicle the history of Allied involvement in the defense of British, French, and Dutch possessions in the Caribbean.

This book offers the first in-depth intellectual and cultural history of British subversive propaganda during the Second World War.

During the Nazi regime many children and young people in Europe found their lives uprooted by Nazi policies, resulting in their relocation around the globe.

The submarine was the invisible but formidable weapon of the Royal Navy during World War II.

The forgotten history of the "e;all-girl"e; big bands of the World War II era takes center stage in Sherrie Tucker's Swing Shift.

Why was there such a far-reaching consensus concerning the utopian goal of national homogeneity in the first half of the twentieth century?

The US Army had a unique tactical doctrine during World War II, placing the emphasis for tank fighting on its Tank Destroyer Command whose main early-war vehicle was the M10 3-inch Gun Motor Carriage, based on the reliable M4A2 Sherman tank chassis.

Action-packed memoir of aerial combat.

This book provides a sophisticated investigation into the experience of being exterminated, as felt by victims of the Holocaust, and compares and contrasts this analysis with the experiences of people who have been colonized or enslaved.

From an expert on the Eastern Front of World War II, this book chronicles the cataclysmic experience of the region that includes modern-day Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia.

A major new account of Germany''s drive on Moscow in November 1941, one of the key battles of World War II.

Shedding new light on the American campaign to democratize Western Germany after World War II, Capturing the German Eye uncovers the importance of cultural policy and visual propaganda to the U.

Covers the Second World War Operations of the Royal Navy in One Concise VolumeOn the declaration of war in 1939, the British Admiralty signaled all warships and naval bases: Total Germany, Total Germany.

D-Day, the Allied invasion of Europe, began on the night of 5-6 June 1944.