Modern warfare

It is virtually impossible to understand the phenomenon of genocide without a clear understanding of the complexities of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (UNCG).

The first ever illustrated study of the largest and most significant clash between the Royal Navy and the Italian Regia Marina.

Useful Captives: The Role of POWs in American Military Conflicts is a wide-ranging investigation of the integral role prisoners of war (POWs) have played in the economic, cultural, political, and military aspects of American warfare.

The Long Afterlife of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration reexamines the history of imprisonment of U.

What causes genocide?

Offering a global account of the 'long' World War II, this book challenges conventional narratives that picture a clearly defined war period (1939-1945) followed by a distinct postwar era dominated by the encroaching cold war.

This book, first published in 1970, examines the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, when an entire industrial city was devastated and the bulk of its population killed or wounded.

This groundbreaking historical study reveals the shocking infiltration of Soviet spies in America—and the top-secret cryptography program that caught them.

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.

This book tells in non-technical language how the British Navy contributed to the development of naval radar in World War 2.

Between 1941 45, the Germans recruited around 175,000 men from a number of minorities in the USSR, distinguishing between 'Turkomans' (predominantly Muslims) and 'Caucasians' (predominantly Orthodox Christians).

This fascinating title from renowned World War II historian Robert Forczyk tells the story of Case White.

The very name Stalingrad has become synonymous with military folly and political arrogance.

This highly illustrated new study tells the full story of the German light Panzers in World War II.

The Holocaust: Europe, the World, and the Jews is a readable text for undergraduate students containing sufficient but manageable detail.

In its analysis of Anglo-Jewish women writing the Holocaust, this book highlights the necessity of their inclusion in the evolving canon of modern British literature, by showing how these writers complicate theories of trauma and memory by using fantasy and the Gothic as a response to silence.

Der Verlauf und die Auswirkungen der Bombenangriffe auf Innsbruck in den letzten drei Jahren des Zweiten Weltkriegs.

After the British occupation of Jerusalem in December 1917, the newly appointed governor Ronald Storrs met with the Spanish consul Conde de Ballobar.

This book takes a fresh approach to the London Blitz by viewing this time through individual local boroughs of the metropolis.

This book analyses the process of 'reshaping' liberated societies in post-1945 Europe.

Following the cataclysmic losses suffered in World War I, air power theorists in Europe advocated for long-range bombers to overfly the trenches and strike deep into the enemy's heartland.

The importance of recording testimony of Holocaust survivors is well understood.

Few Americans know the history-changing story of the men of the USS Mason, the only African-American sailors to take a World War II warship into combat.

Welche Vergangenheit soll erinnert, welche lieber vergessen werden?

Friedrich von Boetticher was Germany's only military attache accredited to the United States between the world wars.

This book explores the history of the Holocaust in relation to Latin America.

In this first interdisciplinary study of this contentious subject, leading experts in politics, history, and philosophy examine the complex aspects of the terror bombing of German cities during World War II.

Death in war matters.

Following Mussolini's declaration of war in June 1940, initially Italy faced only those British troops based in the Middle East but as the armed confrontation in the Western Desert of North Africa escalated, other nations were drawn in - Germany, Australia, India, South Africa, New Zealand, France and finally the United States to wage the first major tank-versus-tank battles of the Second World War.

Most human beings don't manage to achieve fame.

How did British authorities manage to secure the commitment of large dominion and Indian armies that could plan, fight, shoot, communicate, and sustain themselves, in concert with the British Army and with each other, during the era of the two world wars?

David Van Turnhout and Dirk Verhofstadt traced the story of David's Jewish grandfather, Ide Leib Kartuz.

In early 1940, a battle raged to control the ice-free, iron-ore port in northern Norway with changing fortunes until the very end.

At the end of World War II and through the Allied occupation, the Allies deliberated whether to abolish or to preserve the Japanese Emperor system.

In 1938, the Yokosuka Naval Air Technical Arsenal, acting under the requirements issued by the Kaigun Koku Hombu for a Navy Experimental 13-Shi Carrier Borne specification for a dive-bomber to replace the venerable 'Val' aboard carriers.

Examining imagery of urban space in Britain, France and West Germany up to the early 1960s, this book reveals how photography shaped individual architectural projects and national rebuilding efforts alike.

Using the Russian Ministry of Defense’s archives and Western sources, the author has produced a companion work to his masterful study of II SS Panzer Corps’ offensive and the culminating clash at Prokhorovka.

The book explores how Churchill was portrayed in the UK press during the Second World War, comparing his depictions in Scottish, Welsh, Northern Irish, and provincial English newspapers.

Winston Churchill was truly a man of the world.

During World War Two, death and violence permeated all aspects of the everyday lives of ordinary people in Eastern Europe.

In the many historical accounts of D-Day, the Navy, Coast Guard and merchant marine, who transported troops to the invasion beaches and supported the attack, are often given scant attention.

After Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt, claiming a never documented military necessity, ordered the removal and incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II solely because of their ancestry.

Though few realize it, the Netherlands East Indies were the object of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941.

A Companion to Europe Since 1945 provides a stimulating guide to numerous important developments which have influenced the political, economic, social, and cultural character of Europe during and since the Cold War.

Ein vergessenes Meisterwerk, das es zu entdecken gilt, ein einmaliges Zeitzeugnis: »Als die Zeit stillstand«, das bewegende Tagebuch des großen Schriftstellers und Journalisten Léon Werth aus dem besetzten Frankreich zur Zeit des Vichy-Regimes der Jahre 1940 bis 1944.

Jan Karskis Story of a Secret State stands as one of the most poignant and inspiring memoirs of World War II and the Holocaust.

During World War II, the lives of millions of Americans lay precariously in the hands of a few brilliant scientists who raced to develop the first weapon of mass destruction.

Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasing Hitler's Germany has been widely condemned.