Modern warfare

80 years after the Nuremberg trial, the prosecution of Nazi perpetrators has effectively come to an end.

80 years after the Nuremberg trial, the prosecution of Nazi perpetrators has effectively come to an end.

21 March 1945.

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

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

This book explores the role of the Cyprus regiment, a military unit of the British Army, in the Second World War.

This book explores the role of the Cyprus regiment, a military unit of the British Army, in the Second World War.

Explore the rise and fall of a legend.

This book discusses ethical behavior through the genocidal stages of the Holocaust.

This book discusses ethical behavior through the genocidal stages of the Holocaust.

In the summer of 1945, Eberhard Bethge began the search for traces of his colleague and friend Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Walter Wolff was the son of a Jewish merchant family that fled their German home when the Nazis came to power and took refuge in Brussels, Belgium.

';One of our very best writers on France.

';A hugely enjoyable, eccentric account of clerical heroism in the face of evil.

A SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY EDITION TO COMMEMORATE 80 YEARS SINCE THE EXTRAORDINARY EVENTS OF 1943 Sophie Scholl and the White Rose tells the gripping true story of five Munich university students who set up an underground resistance movement in World War II.

How the British might have handled Hitler differently remains one of history's greatest ';what ifs'.

In 1943, while the New York Yankees and St.

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFROM THE AUTHOR OF THE ESCAPE ARTISTA THE ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR'Magnificent .

Many black soldiers serving in the U.

Escaping Hell is the compelling and true story of a heroic young Polish officer who survived the terror of five years in the prisons of Auschwitz and Buchenwald - where violence was meaningless because human life had lost all value.

This is the gripping story of how one man's half-century of service and devotion helped build and develop the Hastings & Prince Edward Regiment; and how that regiment played a vital role in Canada's efforts during the Second World War.

An examination of the SOE, its accomplishments, and the Canadian connection to the organization.

World War II made enormous and unprecedented demands upon the nation's civil service administration.

In November 1942, Paul Andrew Kennedy (1912-1993) boarded the St.

Although it has been overshadowed by other events of the Second World War, Canada's role in the Italian Campaign, from 1943 to 1945, was significant.

An Allied unit comprised of Canadian and American troops, the First Special Service Force or "e;Devil's Brigade"e; struck fear into the very heart of the Axis.

For 16-year-old Jan Kamienski, life as he knows it ends when Germany invades Poland on September 1, 1939.

Many scholars have tried to assess Adolf Hitler's influence on the German people, usually focusing on university towns and industrial communities, most of them predominately Protestant or religiously mixed.

Bravery, patriotism, and sacrifice marked the women caught up in conflict during the Second World War.

Contrasts between fighter combat and the bombers' war support Klinkowitz's belief that notions of the air war were determined by one's position in it.

Now in its ninth edition, A History of Modern Germany provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey of this complex country's history, beginning in 1871 and ending in the present day.

Private Jack Poolton was among the Canadians landing at the disastrous raid on Dieppe.

William R.

At a time of great sacrifice in Canadian history, we are welcomed into the homes, the hearts, and the minds of mothers, sons, fathers, and friends as we follow Syd Smith and his high-school brotherhood of 13 when they answer the call to duty in 1941.

In 1941, the fortress city of Terezin, outside Prague, was ostensibly converted into model ghetto, where Jews could temporarily reside before being sent to a more permanent settlement.

No part of the Nazi movement contributed more to Hitler's success than the Sturmabteilung (SA)-the notorious Brown Shirts.

The Berlin newspaper Der Angriff (The Attack), founded by Joseph Goebbels in 1927, was a significant instrument for arousing support for Nazi ideas.

The involuntary soldiers of an unmilitary people such were the forces that American military planners had to pit against hardened Axis veterans, yet prewar unpreparedness dictated that whole divisions of such men would go to war under the supervision of tiny professional cadres.

An examination of the SOE, its accomplishments, and the Canadian connection to the organization.

WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY KATIE KITAMURA'A work of visceral urgency and power' AMITAV GHOSH'Totally and shockingly alive from its very first paragraph' ALI SMITH, GUARDIAN'An extraordinary book' SUNDAY TELEGRAPHAgu is just a boy when war arrives at his village.

Arthur M.

The Spanish Civil War, begun in July 1936, was a preliminary round of World War II.

This study is the first to analyze both the Nazi party's membership development and composition, as well as the motives for joining and the exoneration strategies of former party members chosen during the denazification process.

This book spotlights the trajectories of young women and men navigating the turmoil of the early twentieth century.