This book draws on a range of key archives and oral testimonies to provide the first systematic and historical study of the origins, context, development, frustrations, inner contradictions, and legacies of the Columbus Centre.
This work is a close examination of the conditions surrounding and precipitating the last gasp of British naval hegemony and events that led to its demise.
This book presents a comprehensive narrative and historical analysis of the political and economic relations between China and Italy from the Treaty of Friendship and Commerce signed in October 1866 to the Second World War.
During World War II, Kentuckians rushed from farms to factories and battlefields, leaving agriculture throughout the state--particularly the lucrative tobacco industry--without sufficient labor.
In den hektischen Monaten vor dem totalen Zusammenbruch des Dritten Reiches und der Kapitulation der deutschen Streitkräfte zog Graf Folke Bernadotte die Aufmerksamkeit der ganzen Welt auf sich.
Using a microhistory based on a unique set of life-writing sources, this book provides an unparalleled insight into the Soviet POW experience during the Second World War.
This study is the first to examine the experiences of the millions of Soviet civilians evacuated to the interior of the country during the Second World War in the context of their encounters and relations with local communities and populations across Soviet Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Siberia, and the Urals.
This study is the first to examine the experiences of the millions of Soviet civilians evacuated to the interior of the country during the Second World War in the context of their encounters and relations with local communities and populations across Soviet Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Siberia, and the Urals.
Arthur ColaIn the small village of San Pietro Avellana in the Apennine Mountains in Abruzzo, a young boy of fourteen, Vivi Colaianni, roams its mountainous area spying on the Nazi movements near the final years of World War II.
During World War II, it quickly became apparent that the physical and tactical demands placed upon paratroopers required men of exceptional stamina, courage and intelligence.
When Prussian soldier Fritz Oppenheimer left the World War I battlefield with two Iron Crosses, he could never have imagined that the pinnacle of his military career would come 27 years later at the German surrender in World War II, when he took top Nazi leaders into captivity and interrogated Wilhelm Keitel, head of the Wehrmacht.
Packed with illustrations, this is a new history and analysis of how the Royal Navy's most important fleet operated and fought the German Navy in the crucial first years of World War II.
The racism and antisemitism of Fascist Italy have often been described as 'mild', 'cultural', 'spiritual', and essentially non-violent, especially in comparison with the racial ideology of Nazi Germany.
This book focuses on a long- neglected yet important topic in China's translation history: interpreter/ translator training and wartime translation studies.
De l’exil, de la déportation, de l’internement, de l’extermination mis en œuvre par l’Allemagne nazie contre les populations juives, l’art est l’un des rares domaines où une reconnaissance, une déférence, un hommage peuvent être apportés aux survivants et à leurs descendants, privés de la transmission mémorielle, enfants sans enfance et endeuillés de morts sans sépulture.
De l’exil, de la déportation, de l’internement, de l’extermination mis en œuvre par l’Allemagne nazie contre les populations juives, l’art est l’un des rares domaines où une reconnaissance, une déférence, un hommage peuvent être apportés aux survivants et à leurs descendants, privés de la transmission mémorielle, enfants sans enfance et endeuillés de morts sans sépulture.
"e;The Battle of Moscow, 1941-1942: The Red Army's Defensive Operations and Counteroffensive Along the Moscow Strategic Direction"e; is a detailed examination of one of the major turning points of World War II, as seen from the Soviet side.
This exploration of the crucially important role played by remorse in Iris Murdoch's philosophical, theological, and political thinking identifies it as a critical concept in her moral psychology and a recurrent theme in her art.
"e;A WWII soldier's rosy letters home are juxtaposed with his recollections of combat's harrowing on-the-ground reality in this immersive debut memoir.
Ce livre présente en détail la Ligue des filles allemandes (Bund Deutscher Mädel, BDM), son histoire, ses rouages, ses liens avec les Jeunesses hitlériennes dont elle était sous la tutelle, avec l’État nazi dans son ensemble, ainsi que la place des jeunes filles allemandes dans le Service du Travail du Reich, dans le Generalplan Ost et le Lebensborn.
