Genocide and ethnic cleansing

The year 2016 marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of statutory teaching and learning about the Holocaust in English state-maintained schools, which was introduced with the first English National Curriculum in 1991.

Coming shortly after the British occupation of Iraq and the German invasion of Russia, the Anglo-Russian occupation of Iran secured a vital route for supplies to Russia and assured British control of the oilfields.

Written by a Croatian historian, a comprehensive guide to the uniforms and equipment of the significant yet little known Croatian units that fought alongside Nazi Germany on the Eastern Front of World War II.

The Second World War was filled with many terrible crimes, such as genocide, forced migration and labour, human-made famine, forced sterilizations, and dispossession, that occurred on an unprecedented scale.

Compiled by acclaimed British military history Andrew Roberts, this is a classic collection of war letters from the frontline revealing the common hopes and fears shared by soldiers across the passage of time.

The first 50 years of the US Army airborne arm is a story of continuing battles with the nation's enemies, of battles within the Army's hierarchy, of change, and of adaptation.

Barbed Wire Diplomacy examines how the United Kingdom government went about protecting the interests, lives and well-being of its prisoners of war (POWs) in Nazi Germany between 1939 and 1945.

In 1941, as the Battle of the Atlantic raged and ship losses mounted, the British Admiralty desperately tried to find ways to defeat the U-Boat threat to Britain's maritime lifeline.

The naval plan behind the Normandy landings that aided the success of the Allied invasion of France.

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"e;This book is a treasure trove of inspiration for models, vignettes, and dioramas.

Born to wealth, adventuresome in spirit, shrewd in business, gallant in war, and a beau ideal of his class, Tommy Hitchcock was the epitome of the American hero, a legend even in his own time.

Few decades have given rise to such potent mythologies as the 1930s.

Midway through 1942, Japanese and Allied forces found themselves fighting on two frontsin New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.

In the late 1930s the Soviet Union experienced a brutal Ezhovshchina – or Purge – which swept through all levels of its society with millions arrested and tens of thousands shot for reasons lacking any form of ethics or justification.

Initially flying Italian-supplied Fiat G.

Ein einzigartiges Ministerium in der deutschen NachkriegsgeschichteDie Folgen von Flucht und Vertreibung gehören mit zu den größten Herausforderungen der deutschen Geschichte nach 1945.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA LANDMARK NEW ACCOUNT OF THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT DAY OF WW2, IN THE WORDS OF THE PEOPLE WHO LIVED IT**** 'Comprehensive.

If there was ever a man who was born to fly, it is John M.

This volume offers an insight into the iconic Mauser family of German bolt-action rifles.

This book chronicles the escapes attempted by Belgian soldiers and civilians from Nazi-occupied Europe during the Second World War.

During World War II the Japanese imprisoned more American civilians at Manila's Santo Tomas prison camp than anywhere else, along with British and other nationalities.

A comprehensive new approach to modern genocide, providing the first systematic treatment in the context of international relations.

The Link in the Chainchronicles the survival of a young Dutch Jewish family through the Nazi occupation of Holland from 1940 to 1945.

A concise and vivid history of the urban war on the Eastern Front.

This volume spans 1914-1939 to provide a concise interpretation of the role the United States played in the origins of the Second World War.

An accessible and wide-ranging overview of literature in multiple languages from the period of the Holocaust and its aftermath.

A Sunday Times bestseller (May 2023) - the incredible story of courage, resilience and survival.

The evacuation of Dunkirk has been immortalised in books, prints and films, narrated as a story of an outnumbered, inexperienced RAF defeating the battle-hardened Luftwaffe and protecting the evacuation.

A follow-up to Finding the Few, this companion volume deals with the postwar discovery and recovery of wartime Luftwaffe aircrew who were downed and lost over the UK, most of them during 1940s.

This volume provides a systematic re-examination of the Frankfurt School's theory of antisemitism and, employing this critical theory, investigates the presence of antisemitism in 20th- and 21st-century politics and society.

This study investigates the relationship between Lothar-Gunther Buchheim (1918-2007), his bestselling 1973 novel Das Boot (The Boat), and West Germany's Vergangenheitsbewaltigung.

This book examines how the fall of France in the Second World War has been recorded by historians and remembered within society.

A second-generation Holocaust survivor weaves together fragments of her familys history and witness testimony in narrative and collage, using her art as transformation and remembrance.

This fully illustrated book assesses the trial of strength between US Navy PT boats and Japanese destroyers operating in the Solomon Islands during 1942 43.

This startling book reveals the military and political plans of the Axis in the very words of its own generals and admirals.

A 2024 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThis book discusses some of the most urgent current debates over the study, commemoration, and politicization of the Holocaust through key critical perspectives.

The memoirs of General der Flieger a.

This book explores the diverse ways in which Holocaust representations have influenced and structured how other genocides are understood and represented in the West.

Resistance is a product of will times means, Carl von Clausewitz postulated in his treatise On War.

When the revolutionary twin jet-powered Arado Ar 234 first appeared in the skies over north-west Europe in the summer of 1944, it represented the state-of-the-art in terms of aeronautical and technical development.

Facts about the Holocaust are one way of learning about its devastating impact, but presenting personal manifestations of trauma can be more effective than citing statistics.

In Moral Responsibility in the Holocaust, David H.

When the Great Patriotic War began many women volunteered for the armed forces, but most of them were rejected.

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