Modern warfare

'We believed in ourselves so much, no one ever panicked, even when the situation looked so desperate.

'A definitive record .

'THE VIETNAMESE ANNE FRANK'Last Night I Dreamed of Peace is the moving diary kept by a 27-year-old Vietnamese doctor who was killed by the Americans during the Vietnam War, while trying to defend her patients.

This book is the first English-language collection of scholarly essays to investigate the ambiguous and supporting role that colonialism in the Aegean Region played in Mussolini's imperial ambitions, bringing to light a history rarely scrutinized until recently.

'Superb.

**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**'Flawless.

In this remarkably powerful book, James Bradley takes as his starting point one of the most famous photographs of all time.

The subject of the new major film by Christopher NolanIt could have been the biggest military disaster suffered by the British in the Second World War, but against all odds the British Army was successfully evacuated, and 'Dunkirk spirit' became synonymous with the strength of the British people in adversity.

'Dad walked determinedly down the path, joined by two neighbours with five children between them.

'Thick with rolls of gleaming new wire, the obstacle was designed to prevent a suicide bomber driving into the compound's thick mud walls.

On 21 July 1942 the Nazis took control of the small Polish town of Zolkiew, life for Jewish 15-year-old Clara Kramer was never to be the same again.

6 June 1944: the day Allied forces crossed the Channel and began fighting their way into Nazi-occupied Northwest Europe.

This utterely compelling memoir opens with a sceptical nine-year-old Bryan Magee being taught the facts of life.

First published on the anniversary of Kurt Vonnegut's death, Armageddon in Retrospect is a collection of twelve new writings - a fitting tribute to the author, and an essential contribution to the discussion of war, peace and humanity's tendency towards violence.

EVERYTHING YOU THINK YOU KNOW ABOUT WAR IS WRONG.

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Part of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES- Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbour?

Part of the Ladybird Expert History of the Second World War series, The Eastern Front 1941-1944, is an authoritative and accessible introduction to the brutal confrontation between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union along a 1,200 mile front.

Part of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES.

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Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, Battle of Britain is an accessible, insightful and authoritative account of the most famous aerial battle in history.

'DESERVES TO JOIN REACH FOR THE SKY AND THE LAST ENEMY AS ONE OF THE GREAT RAF BOOKS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR' - ANDREW ROBERTSAs I write, I can clearly recall the stinging heat of aburning Blenheim, smells, tastes, expressions, sounds of voices and, most ofall, fear gripping deep in me.

Este libro analiza la importancia del periódico de la División Azul –la Hoja de Campaña (HC)– desde múltiples puntos de vista.

The second in Stewart Binns' acclaimed Great War Series, The Darkness and the Thunder is a sweeping story of war following five families through the terrifying conditions of the Western Front, the slaughter of Gallipoli and the heartbreak of those left at home.

A new edition of Primo Levi's classic memoir of the Holocaust, with an introduction by David Baddiel, author of Jews Don't Count'With the moral stamina and intellectual poise of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, dutiful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, unpretentious prose.

Im Dezember 1939 verweigerte der Seeoffizier Hans Langsdorff einen letzten, aussichtslosen Kampf, sprengte sein Schiff vor Montevideo, rettete die Besatzung von 1.

Hailed in turns as 'excellent', 'intelligent', 'scrupulously fair', 'remarkable', 'impressive', and 'definitive', this superb book, by one of the pre-eminent writers of his generation, focuses on the life of Joachim von Ribbentrop, Hitler's Foreign Minister from 1938 until the end of the Third Reich.

World War II shows how deep-seated local fears and hatreds escalated into one vast global struggle that was fought out to the bitter end.

This book examines the response of the Western Alliance to the Polish Crisis (1980-83).

On March 24, 1944, Nazi occupation forces in Rome killed 335 unarmed civilians in retaliation for a partisan attack the day before.

This collection represents some of the latest research on Primo Levi, the famous Auschwitz survivor Italian author, in the field of Italian Studies, Holocaust Studies, Jewish Studies, literary theory, philosophy, and ethics.

Like many European Jews, Sam Iwry began his life in Poland, but at the age of ten fled with his family to Russia before World War I.

From 1978-1996 Holocaust denial emerged as a major concern for the liberal democracies of Europe and North America.

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.

Elizabeth Bishop's World War II-Cold War View offers the first comprehensive portrayal of the poet in mid-century America.

In this provocative book, Marvin Perry and Frederick M.

In this collection of new essays, Sander Gilman muses on Jewish memory and representation throughout the twentieth-century.

From 1941-1944 Leningrad saw by far the largest-scale famine ever to occur in a developed society.

The true nature of Mussolini's foreign policy during the late interwar period has been the subject of considerable controversy.

This book describes the struggle for power between two totalitarian dictatorships in the north of Europe and the battle for survival of a small nation caught between them.

This book is the first to challenge current orthodoxy that Chamberlain's appeasement policy before World War Two was justified by Britain's inability to pay for rearmament.

By examining Mauritius and the Indian Ocean, this unique synthesis of imperial and naval/military history, reveals the depths of colonial involvement in the Second World War and the role of colonies in British strategic planning from the eighteenth century.

This book examines women's experiences in Britain during the Second World War, drawing on women's own memories and archival sources.

The surrender of Hong Kong to the Japanese in December 1941 started the collapse of British power in the Far East.

Jean Moulin is a universally recognized French hero, celebrated as the delegate of General de Gaulle to Nazi-occupied France in 1942-3 and founder of the National Resistance Council in May 1943.

Behind the tangled alliances, feuding royals, and deadly battles are the nearly 100 riveting true stories of the men and women who lived, fought, and survived the first Great War.

On his 81st birthday, without explanation, Karen Fisher-Alaniz's father placed two weathered notebooks on her lap.

The untold stories of bravery, triumph, and redemption in the depths of the darkest world war.

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