Modern warfare

A German commander’s “very readable and thought-provoking” study of Operation Barbarossa (Military Review).

Architectural design can play a role in helping make the past present in meaningful ways when applied to preexisting buildings and places that carry notable and troubling pasts.

Über die kleineren der insgesamt 342 Ghettos im Generalgouvernement Polen ist wenig bekannt – weder über die Dauer ihrer Existenz noch über die Anzahl der in ihnen eingesperrten Jüdinnen und Juden.

During the Second World War, Plymouth suffered some of the worst Blitz damage in the country.

“A fascinating account” of the secret Virginia facility code-named PO Box 1142, where the US gathered intelligence and interrogated German prisoners (Journal of Counterterrorism & Homeland Security International).

From the North African desert to the bloody stalemate in Italy, from the London blitz to the D-Day beaches, a group of highly courageous and extremely talented American journalists reported the war against Nazi Germany for a grateful audience.

In this unprecedented series exploring the big story of the Battle of Britain, renowned historian Dilip Sarkar investigates the wider context and intimate details of the epic aerial conflict in the summer of 1940 from all sides.

In Renegotiating French Identity, Jane Fulcher addresses the question of cultural resistance to the German occupation and Vichy regime during the Second World War.

The five-month Monte Cassino campaign in central Italy is one of the best-known European land battles of World War Two, alongside D-Day and Stalingrad.

A WWII veteran presents an "e;intense, moving account"e; of the battle for Iwo Jima: "e;the harsh face of war .

George Errington was a well-known and popular test pilot from 1935 to 1955.

A challenging analysis of the important yet controversial North African campaign, examined through the lens of morale.

Fully illustrated, this book pits US Navy submarines against the aircraft carriers of the Imperial Japanese Navy at the height of World War II.

An original and compelling new analysis of Hiroshima''s place within the global development of Holocaust and World War II memory.

Germany in the 20th century endured two world wars, a failed democracy, Hitler's dictatorship, the Holocaust, and a country divided for 40 years after World War II.

'Meticulous.

Genocide denial not only abuses history and insults the victims but paves the way for future atrocities.

In the 1930s and 1940s - amid the crises of totalitarianism, war and a perceived cultural collapse in the democratic West - a high-profile group of mostly Christian intellectuals met to map out 'middle ways' through the 'age of extremes'.

Winston Churchill called it "e;the Beast.

Originally constructed in the 18th century as a military barracks by Austrian Emperor Joseph II, Theresienstadt (now Terezin) was used as a ghetto and concentration camp by the Nazis early in World War II in their ruse of peaceful resettlement of the Jews of Europe.

In the last two decades our empirical knowledge of the Holocaust has been vastly expanded.

The War Artists' Advisory Committee (WAAC) were responsible for the production of some of the most iconic images of the Second World War.

The Oise-Aisne American Cemetery is the last resting place of 6,012 American soldiers who died fighting in a small portion of Northern France during the First World War.

The "e;extraordinarily informed"e; account of how US cryptographers broke Japan's Purple cipher to change the course of World War II (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

This book reveals how ideas of comradeship shaped the actions and mindsets of ordinary German soldiers across the twentieth century.

The outlook for a victory by the Allied Powers was in doubt in 1942.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Der grundlegende Umschwung im Kriegsverlauf" verfügbar.

From the American entry into World War II until September 1943, U.

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

General Motors, the largest corporation on earth today, has been the owner since 1929 of Adam Opel AG, Russelsheim, the maker of Opel cars.

Designed to locate and sink German U-boats in the Battle of the Atlantic, the escort carrier USS Bogue (CVE-9) became the most successful Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) carrier of World War II.

A classic about real-life WWII espionage,as conducted by its modern master*A Man Called Intrepid is the classic true story of Sir William Stephenson (codenamed Intrepid) and the spy network he founded that would ultimately stall the Nazi war machine and help winWorld War II.

Describes and illustrates the full range of Dutch resistance groups and German and collaborationist counter-resistance groups during the Nazi occupation in 1940-45.

Designed in 1942, Britain's innovative Projector, Infantry, Anti-Tank (PIAT) provided British and Commonwealth troops with a much-needed means of taking on Germany's formidable Panzers.

Anzac Labour explores the horror, frustration and exhaustion surrounding working life in the Australian Imperial Force during the First World War.

Dans ce second tome de Panser nos morts, nous retrouvons les mêmes narrateurs, Maria, Ivan, Kostia, qui sont aussi les acteurs de ce temps singulier et qui prolongent leur existence et leur engagement de toute une vie.

Much has been written of the titanic clashes between the Wehrmacht and the Red Army at Stalingrad.

This book-which is based on vast archival research and on a variety of primary sources-has filled a gap in Italy's historiography on Fascism, and in European and world history about concentration camps in our contemporary world.

This book, first published in 1982, is a systematic and detached analysis of the 60,000 British conscientious objectors in the Second World War, forming an examination of the relationship between the individual and the State in time of war.

Die Schweiz – ein neutrales Land im Herzen Europas, umgeben von den Spannungen und Umbrüchen der Zwischenkriegszeit.

The Ardennes, 1944.

For 16-year-old Jan Kamienski, life as he knows it ends when Germany invades Poland on September 1, 1939.

After the fall of Singapore in 1942, the conquering Japanese Army transferred some 2500 British and Australian prisoners to a jungle camp at Sandakan, on the east coast of North Borneo.

A study of the Red Army's penultimate offensive operation in the war in Europe.

A fascinating exploration of the often-overlooked gunnery duels between the formidable artillery weapons in the Atlantic Wall defences and the mighty US and Royal Navy battleships.

This book focuses on the experiences of thousands of Jewish displaced persons (DPs) who lived in refugee camps in Italy between the liberation of the southern regions in 1943 and the early 1950s, waiting for their resettlement outside of Europe.