The Standard History of the War, Vol 4 by Edgar Wallace offers a detailed and gripping account of pivotal moments during one of history's most turbulent conflicts.
This volume contains thirteen selected papers from the seventh international 'Beyond Camps and Forced Labour conference', held in London in January 2023.
Flying saucers display characteristic features, transmitted by an important strand of early science fiction, which express religious concerns entangled with new technologies and scientific discoveries.
An analysis of Operation Bagration, the 1944 Russian offensive in Belorussia, highlighting key tactical errors and its connection to Operation Overlord.
The Struggle for the Pacific (1937) examines the rivalries and postures as various powers - European, the US, Japan and China - attempted to militarily, politically and economically dominate the Asia Pacific sphere.
Auf riskanten Wegen verhalf der junge Wiener Anwalt Willy Perl Tausenden Jüdinnen und Juden aus Zentral- und Osteuropa Ende der 1930er Jahre zu einem neuen Leben.
This history of Anglo-American efforts to overturn Ireland's neutrality policy during the Second World War adds complexity to the grand narrative of the Western Alliance against the Axis Powers, exploring relatively unexamined emotional, personalised, and gendered politics that underlay policymaking and alliance relations.
Discover the untold story of Kaiser Wilhelm I, the man who transformed a fractured col-lection of German states into a unified empire under Prussian leadership.
Executive editor: Ingo Loose; English-language edition prepared by: Elizabeth Harvey, Russell Alt-Haaker, Johannes Gamm, Georg Felix Harsch, Dorothy Mas, and Caroline Pearce By 1941, most of the Jews in the Polish territories annexed to the Reich - Danzig-West Prussia, the Wartheland, District Bialystok, Zichenau (Ciechanow) and eastern Upper Silesia - were incarcerated in ghettos and camps: the largest ghettos were Litzmannstadt and Bialystok.
This volume, grounded in the Diary of a Young Girl and its continued appeal to readers of all ages, sees both promise in the relevance of Anne Frank's story in the twenty first century, and potential for new ways of teaching her story and those of other genocides and human right violations.
This volume, grounded in the Diary of a Young Girl and its continued appeal to readers of all ages, sees both promise in the relevance of Anne Frank's story in the twenty first century, and potential for new ways of teaching her story and those of other genocides and human right violations.
Mit der Deutschen Volksliste (DVL) versuchte die rassistische NS-Politik, eine Trennung von deutscher und »fremdvölkischer« Bevölkerung im besetzten Westpolen 1939-1945 durchzusetzen.
Während des Zweiten Weltkriegs geriet die Schweiz in eine einzigartige Position: Umgeben von kriegsführenden Mächten war das Land gezwungen, seine Neutralität unter schwierigsten Bedingungen zu wahren.