Modern warfare

Originally published in 1994, This Working-Day World is lively collection of essays presenting a social, political and cultural view of British women's lives in the period 1914-45.

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.

Although World War II began as a war in Europe, many in the United States, foreseeing the inevitable, began to prepare for war, putting no faith in the Neutrality Act.

Bill Yenne brings to life the untold story of Lidiya Vladimirovna, Russia's World War II flying ace, who lit up the skies over Germany and Russia while flying 66 combat missionsOf all the major air forces that were engaged in the war, only the Red Air Force had units comprised specifically of women.

York has often been overlooked when it comes to Britain's wartime experience.

During the Second World War, as the Soviet Red Army was locked in brutal combat against the Nazis, Joseph Stalin ended the state's violent, decades-long persecution of religion.

'The Reckoning is vivid history, the tragic Eastern Front brought to life through the widest range of Russian and German sources I've ever read.

On December 8, 1941, Japanese troops methodically took over the U.

The beginning of World War I saw thousands of army and navy aviators who needed specialized clothing that could not be purchased off-the-shelf.

Filled with fine-scale drawings of British armored vehicles, including:*; Stuart I Light Tank*; Crusader III*; Tank*; Humber Scout Car*; Valentine Bridgelayer*; Cromwell IV Tank Daimler Armored Car*; And dozens more .

This volume deals specifically with escape and evasion in the Netherlands, Belgium and France, an operation in which the author himself was directly involved, and discusses the role which these lines of escape played in the lives of airmen who were forced to bail out over enemy territory.

Is it ever right to target civilians in a time of war?

In 1941, as Nazi Germany began its disastrous campaign against the Soviet Union, Hitlers other campaign, to exterminate European Jewry, was also commencing in earnest.

This invaluable resource offers students a comprehensive overview of the German war machine that overran much of Europe during World War II, with close to 300 entries on a variety of topics and a number of key primary source documents.

The Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture reflects current approaches to Holocaust literature that open up future thinking on Holocaust representation.

This is the first biography of Capt.

The story of the second major amphibious landing in France in 1944, which built upon the lessons learned from D-Day.

The epic Allied invasion of German-occupied Normandy on D-Day, 6 June 1944, has been extensively chronicled.

No Room for Mistakes is a thoroughly researched account of British and Allied submarine warfare in north European waters at the beginning of World War II.

The renowned WWII historian’s definitive biography of the notorious German SS officer convicted of war crimes for his role in the Holocaust.

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

It was the Greatest Generation's greatest moment: when heroes at home and abroad, united in common purpose as soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marinesunder the leadership of generals like Patton, Eisenhower, Marshall, and Bradleyrescued Europe from the tyranny and genocide of Adolf Hitler.

The biography of Thomas Brown,who provided the template for a successful search by the German navy for oil access.

The first volume in a groundbreaking work of WWII history presents a startlingly different narrative of D-Day based on newly released documents.

Between 1939-1941, from the time that Germany invaded Poland until Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Americans engaged in a debate as intense as any in U.

The story of two Wayne State University students who were separated by World War II, told through the letters that they exchanged.

The best book about Americas first modern secret service.

"e;A classic tale of American initiative .

The Messerschmitt Bf 110 was undoubtedly one of the most significant aircraft of World War II.

The Ju 87 Stuka was the most feared weapon in the German arsenal in the first year of World War 2, the Luftwaffe using it to deadly effect during the Blitzkrieg between September 1939 and June 1940.

Culture, Northern Ireland, and the Second World War explores the impact of the Second World War on literature and culture in Northern Ireland between 1939 and 1970.

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This book examines the ways Poland dealt with the territories and peoples it gained from Germany after the Second World War.

A Spitfire Named Connie is an exciting rollercoaster of a story.

Many books and memoirs have been written on prisoner of war captivity in the Far East during the Second World War.

The Panzerkampfwagen V Panther is one of the best-known German tanks in existence and is considered one of the greatest tanks of World War II.

The factors leading to the defeat of the Axis Powers in World War II have been debated for decades.

Memorializing Pearl Harbor examines the challenge of representing history at the site of the attack that brought America into World War II.

The diary kept by Ronald Edward Tritton is a revealing and often frank record of the internal conflicts at the Public Relations Department of the War Office and the Ministry of Information during the Second World War.

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

Part contemporary detective story, part World War II historical narrative, No Surrender is the inspiring true story of Roddie Edmonds, a Knoxville-born enlistee who risked his life during the final days of World War II to save others from murderous Nazis, and the lasting effects his actions had on thousands of lives—then and now.

The final volume in the Barbarossa trilogy, this title completes the account of the strategic intricacies of the German campaign against RussiaRobert Kirchubel examines the causes behind the German failure, including the inability to resupply troops or provide reserves, as well as the lack of decent German winter uniforms and transport with dramatic contemporary photographs detailing the unforgiving battlefield conditions.

By the early months of 1944 in the Pacific, the US Navy's burgeoning force of carrier-based F6F-3/5 Hellcats had pretty much wiped the skies clear of Japanese fighters during a series of one-sided aerial engagements.

Discover the key events in the war that shaped the modern world - moment by moment.

An illustrated account of the Mediterranean clash between the leading RAF and Italian aces flying the Supermarine Spitfire V and the Macchi C.

The definitive history of MI9's emergency escape and evasion mapping programme and the contribution the maps made to victory in 1945.

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

Includes hundreds of period photos covering all the details of the trucks, vans and trailers vital to maintain the communications of the U.

For decades the history of the US Military Tribunals at Nuremberg (NMT) has been eclipsed by the first Nuremberg trial the International Military Tribunal or IMT.

In the face of Soviet invasion in 1939 40, and once again in 1941 44, the armies raised by Finland a tiny nation of only 4 million people - astonished the world by their effective resistance.