Modern warfare

Germany's war against the Soviet Union raised a small army of child soldiers.

Combining cultural history and literary analysis, this study proposes a new and thought-provoking reading of the changing relationship between Germans and Jews following the Holocaust.

First published in 1979.

“An authoritative look at an event that has taken on a legendary status .

A "e;fast-moving, absorbing"e; account of the years leading up to World War II-a tale of democratic crisis, racial conflict, and a belated recognition of evil (The New York Times Book Review).

Carl Holmstrom's superb artwork depicts life as a 'kriegie' in a unique manner.

German army deficiencies are often cited as the reason for the failure of the German counteroffensive in the Ardennes region of France, Belgium and Luxembourg in December of 1944 to January 1945 which the Germans called Operation Wacht am Rhein, the Allies named the Ardennes Counteroffensive, and was also commonly known as the Battle of the Bulge.

Despite familiar images of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan and the controversy over its fiftieth anniversary, the human impact of those horrific events often seems lost to view.

World War II was a significant period of development for American missile programs, during which time the US built pioneering examples of guided weapons systems.

Shot down and killed in April 1944, Lionel Anderson, a low flying Mosquito intruder pilot, was part way through his second tour of operations.

This book analyses the portrayals of the Holocaust in newspaper cartoons, educational pamphlets, short stories and graphic novels.

Field Marshal Erwin Rommels heroic opposition to Hitler in 1944 cost him his life.

A remarkable cross-cultural history that rescues the swastika, an ancient Buddhist symbol, from its deployment by the forces of hate.

El Alamein, Britain's victory in the deserts of North Africa in 1942, was the first major reversal of fortunes for Hitler's Third Reich.

For thousands of young British girls, the influx of Canadian soldiers conscripted to Britain during the Second World War meant throngs of handsome young men.

Featuring evocative artwork plates and carefully selected photographs, this book assesses the US Marines and Japanese troops who contested the islands of Tarawa, Roi-Namur, and Eniwetok during 1943 44.

Filled with fine-scale drawings of British armored vehicles, including:*; Stuart I Light Tank*; Crusader III*; Tank*; Humber Scout Car*; Valentine Bridgelayer*; Cromwell IV Tank Daimler Armored Car*; And dozens more .

A concise account of the war - including the war in Asia and the Pacific as well as the European arena.

This book promotes a historically and culturally sensitive understanding of trauma during and after World War II.

Packed with rich detail and analysis, this exciting tale of war at sea relates the dramatic and moving true story of the sinking of the British liner Laconia and its consequences for the conduct of marine warfare.

This innovative book reveals children''s experiences and how they became victims and actors during the twentieth century''s biggest conflicts.

The Venona Secretspresents one of the last great, untold stories of World War II and the Cold War.

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

This book examines the right to education for migrant children in Europe between 1949 and 1992.

Follow Author Joseph Szalay thru the Great Depression as the son of Hungarian immigrants, thru his service during World War II with the 102nd Infantry Division.

This examination of Hitler's stormtroopers provides vital insights into the collapse of the Weimar Republic and the establishment of the Nazi state.

This is the first full-length study about the British artist Roy Ascott, one of the first cybernetic artists, with a career spanning seven decades to date.

Josef “Sepp” Allerberger was the second most successful sniper of the German Wehrmacht and one of the few private soldiers to be honoured with the award of the Knight’s Cross.

An account of Germany's little known U-boat campaign against merchant shipping along the North American Atlantic coast during the first six months of 1942.

The bitter fighting in the so-called Falaise-Argentan Pocket in August 1944, during which the Allies encircled and destroyed a substantial part of Hitler’s forces in northern France following the D-Day landings, marked the last major battle of the Normandy campaign.

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William Shirer (1904-1993), a star foreign correspondent with the Chicago Tribune in the 1920s and '30s, was a prominent member of what one contemporary observer described as an extraordinary band of American journalists, "e;some with the Midwest hayseed still in their hair,"e; who gave their North American audiences a visceral sense of how Europe was spiralling into chaos and war.

This book considers tourism to memorial sites from a visitor's point of view, challenging established theories in tourism and memory studies by critically appraising Germany's often celebrated memory culture.

Of Islands, Ports, and Sea Lanes,/i> explains the operational and strategic importance of the ports and sea lanes of Africa and the Indian Ocean during the Second World War.

This book argues that enthusiasm for Hitler within churches and universities effectively gave Germans permission to participate in the Nazi regime.

6th September, 1942: a middle-aged Jewish refugee stands on the Swiss side of the Franco-Swiss border above Geneva.

During the early months of World War II, Winston Churchill maneuvered to get the U.

Thomas Leahy investigates whether informers, Special Forces and other British intelligence operations forced the IRA into peace in the 1990s.

Historians agree: the diary of Leon Werth (1878-1955) is one of the most precious--and readable--pieces of testimony ever written about life in France under Nazi occupation and the Vichy regime.

As the United States began its campaign against numerous Japanese-held islands in the Pacific, Japanese tactics required them to develop new weapons and strategies.

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

Sergeant Paul S.

An account of one of the largest battles of World War II and its place in Germany''s Eastern campaign.

This fully illustrated study examines and compares the roles of the US Navy submarines and the Imperial Japanese Navy's anti-submarine warfare capabilities during World War II.

Originally published in 1969, this book discusses the many factors which atomised German society from 1870 onwards and thus assisted Nazi evil, and it shows that Hitler and Nazism were mere phenomena of a mass age.

This book explores the contours of civic identity in the town of Vichy, France.

Known for his rousing speeches and military triumphs, General George S.

Stalin and War, 1918-1953 is the first book to examine the patterns of radicalized internal violence that characterized the Stalinist regime across the whole of the dictator's rule, and it is one of the only works to connect patterns of internal violence to the dictator's perceptions of war and foreign threat.