Modern warfare

A penetrating study of the German army’s military campaigns, relations with the Nazi regime, and complicity in Nazi crimes across occupied Europe For decades after 1945, it was generally believed that the German army, professional and morally decent, had largely stood apart from the SS, Gestapo, and other corps of the Nazi machine.

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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.

More than 60 years have passed since the outbreak of the most catastrophic conflict the world has known: 30 million people dead and unbelievable devastation.

A Companion to World War II brings together a series of fresh academic perspectives on World War II, exploring the many cultural, social, and political contexts of the war.

A Companion to World War II brings together a series of fresh academic perspectives on World War II, exploring the many cultural, social, and political contexts of the war.

A Companion to the First World War brings together an international team of distinguished historians who provide a series of original and thought-provoking essays on one of the most devastating events in modern history.

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This fully illustrated book assesses the trial of strength between US Navy PT boats and Japanese destroyers operating in the Solomon Islands during 1942 43.

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The first comprehensive account of the impact of Japanese occupation on Southeast Asian economies and societies during World War II.

The first comprehensive account of the impact of Japanese occupation on Southeast Asian economies and societies during World War II.

A sweeping history of emotional life that explores how ''Dear John'' letters became a rite of passage for American servicemen.

A sweeping history of emotional life that explores how ''Dear John'' letters became a rite of passage for American servicemen.

Offers a portrait of Benito Mussolini, whose passion for theatre profoundly shaped his ideology and actions as head of fascist Italy.

Offers a portrait of Benito Mussolini, whose passion for theatre profoundly shaped his ideology and actions as head of fascist Italy.

Jeremy Crang provides a compelling new history of women who served with the British armed forces during the Second World War.

This anthology is the first sustained examination of American involvement in World War II through an environmental lens.

An innovative study of empathy, sex, and love between prisoners of war and German women during World War II.

Find out how 12 World War II babies created a unified understanding on the development and prevention of human violence.

This anthology is the first sustained examination of American involvement in World War II through an environmental lens.

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A revised and updated edition of Evan Mawdsley''s acclaimed global history of World War II.

A revised and updated edition of Evan Mawdsley''s acclaimed global history of World War II.

Explores how the Wehrmacht''s defensive conduct contributed to the radicalisation of behavioural patterns in Germany during the war''s final months.

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

Examines the change in memory regime in postwar France, from one centered on the concentration camps to one centered on the Holocaust.

Richard Hammond offers a major reassessment of the role of the war at sea in Allied victory in the Mediterranean region.

Examines the change in memory regime in postwar France, from one centered on the concentration camps to one centered on the Holocaust.

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

Analyses why the great battles were won and lost, and how the men that fought went on to change the world.

Reveals how memoirs are rich repositories of information about the ways in which veterans remembered, understood, and recounted their war.

Reveals how memoirs are rich repositories of information about the ways in which veterans remembered, understood, and recounted their war.

Analyses why the great battles were won and lost, and how the men that fought went on to change the world.

This comparative account of civilian experiences of aerial bombing in World War II Britain and Japan reveals the universality of total war.

Dixon provides the first comprehensive study of African American military and social experiences during the Pacific War.

Examines women''s life writing in order to shed light on female complicity in the Second World War and the Holocaust.

Recreates the harsh mountain warfare during the Wehrmacht''s and Red Army''s clash on the highest battlefield of World War Two.

A transnational history of how Indigenous peoples mobilised en masse to support the war effort on the battlefields and the home fronts.

The lives of ordinary German soldiers offer new insights into the occupation of France, the history of Nazism and the Second World War.

Paying for Hitler''s War is a comparative economic study of twelve Nazi-occupied countries during World War II.

Examines women''s life writing in order to shed light on female complicity in the Second World War and the Holocaust.

Filled with personal accounts of the action, this book details the USAAF's tactical and strategic campaigns in the skies over Italy in World War II.

This comparative account of civilian experiences of aerial bombing in World War II Britain and Japan reveals the universality of total war.

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

By the spring of 1941, the enemy had taken much of Southern Europe: Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Albania, Greece, and with Italy in the Axis it stood to dominate.

Provides a bold new interpretation of the origins and development of World War II''s remembrance in the USSR.