Modern warfare

Based on deep analysis of Mass Observation wartime diaries, Food in Wartime Britain explores the food experience of the British middle classes in their own words throughout the course of the Second World War.

For most of World War II, British tank development remained faithful to the design philosophy inaugurated during World War I.

Chronicling the growth of a recruit from boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina, to a seasoned troop leader, this memoir also relates the experiences of the 200 marines in A Company, First Battalion, Second Marines, as they engaged in island warfare in the South Pacific at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan and Tinian.

Most Americans believe that the Second World War ended because the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan forced it to surrender.

A vivid, brutal and enthralling account of the Burma Campaign one of the most punishing and hard-fought military adventures of World War Two.

Jonathan Wright explores the events, discusses rival interpretations and places the policies of Hitler in the context of Germany as a whole.

The full history of how the United States targeted and destroyed the Japanese capital from the air, in a ten-month long campaign by the US Army Air Force and the US Navy.

The Battle for Britain is a provocative reinterpretation of both British air and naval power from 1909 to 1940.

On 12 September 1944, a wolfpack of U.

This is the compelling story of Pope Pius XI's secret relations with Benito Mussolini.

Thomas Percy Gleave began his RAF career in 1930, three years later becoming a member of the RAF aerobatic team.

What did Hitler really want to achieve: world domination.

The experience of all occupied countries during the Second World War was characterised by severe material shortages.

The American fleet aircraft carrier Hornet is widely acknowledged for the contributions she made to the war effort.

Millions of Soviet soldiers died in the USSR's struggle for survival against Nazi Germany but millions more returned to Stalin's state after victory.

The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Mass Atrocity, and Genocide explores the many and sometimes complicated ways in which religion, faith, doctrine, and practice intersect in societies where mass atrocity and genocide occur.

This volume presents insights from five years of intensive Holocaust, genocide, and mass atrocity education at Queensborough Community College (QCC) of the City University of New York (CUNY), USA, to offer four approaches-Arts-Based, Textual, Outcomes-Based, and Social Justice-to designing innovative, integrative, and differentiated pedagogies for today's college students.

More than three-and-a-half million men served in the British Army during the Second World War, the vast majority of them civilians who had never expected to become soldiers and had little idea what military life, with all its strange rituals, discomforts, and dangers, was going to be like.

While the most conspicuous components of the US Army Air Forces in World War II were the air units, there were also hundreds of ground units and organisations.

80 years after the Nuremberg trial, the prosecution of Nazi perpetrators has effectively come to an end.

The acclaimed author of Hitler's Art Thief takes readers into the shadowy world of the aristocrats and business leaders on both sides of the Atlantic who secretly aided Hitler and Nazi Germany.

In the first half of the 20th century the possibility of flight opened up entirely new avenues of thought and exploration.

The popular conception of Hitler in the final years of World War II is that of a deranged Fuhrer stubbornly demanding the defense of every foot of ground on all fronts and ordering hopeless attacks with nonexistent divisions.

';Compellingly chronicles one of the least studied great episodes of World War II with power and authorityA riveting read' (Donald L.

The war years 1939 - 1945 were the most perilous in the long history of the British Merchant Navy.

Fought under the cover of elaborate deceptions and ruthless lies, the deadly intelligence operations of World War II produced victories and defeats that were often as important as any reached on the battlefield.

Dieser Band versammelt die Ergebnisse einer Tagung, die von der Professur für Europäische Geschichte des 19.

Following the landings in Normandy, one of the Allies main concerns was how to supply the expanding beachhead.

Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1933-1945 is an abridged edition of Saul Friedländer's definitive Pulitzer Prize-winning two-volume history of the Holocaust: Nazi Germany and the Jews: The Years of Persecution, 1933-1939 and The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945.

Illustrated throughout, this volume tells how, of the 325th FG's 537 aerial victories, 202 were scored by its 27 aces.

The war at sea was a key aspect of World War II, one that is too-often under-studied.

How does creativity thrive in the face of fascism?

A RUSA Outstanding Reference Source 2025From genocidal campaigns to careful neutrality to valiant lifesaving efforts, every country's experience of the Holocaust was different during and immediately following World War II.

The author of The Kompromat Conspiracy reveals the truth behind Great Britain’s secret World War II group.

The T-34-85 tank is one of those rare weapons that have remained in service for more than half a century.

Launching Osprey's 'X-Planes' series is a fascinating examination of Hitler's secret weapon.

'I went to the public baths and after I undressed I could hear someone whistling.

'Victor Failmezger's passion for the city of Rome is matched by his extensive knowledge of its dark recent past.

Charles Sweeny (1882-1963) was the heir to a fortune.

Doba-Mera Medvedeva belongs to a vanishingly small group of memoirists who are neither elite nor highly literate, but whose observations from the ground cast a vivid light on a lost world.

Home front heroism investigates how civilians were recognised and celebrated as heroic during the Second World War.

Pour la première fois, deux membres de la haute administration entreprennent de réfléchir, sur un mode qui n'est pas celui du plaidoyer pro domo, sur l'attitude d'un corps auquel ils appartiennent, dont ils sont solidaires, mais dont ils analysent avec probité le comportement sous l'Occupation.

Of the RAF's trio of four-engined heavy bombers in World War 2, the mighty Short Stirling was the first to enter service in August 1940.

In 1942, Bill Manbo (1908-1992) and his family were forced from their Hollywood home into the Japanese American internment camp at Heart Mountain in Wyoming.

Frank Knox served as Secretary of the Navy during some of the most eventful years in U.

A remarkable collection of accounts of intrepid American aircrew shot down over enemy lines during World War II and how they got away.

'What a brilliant book this is a terrific narrative of Hitler's Ardennes offensive of December 1944 superb storytelling that achieves a skilful balance between drama and detail.

This volume is both a study of the history of Polish Jews and Jewish Poland before, during, and immediately after the Holocaust and a collection of personal explorations focusing on the historians who write about these subjects.

This first comprehensive analysis of the Third Reich's efforts to confiscate, loot, censor and influence art begins with a brief history of the looting of artworks in Western history.