Modern warfare

Margarete Susman was among the great Jewish women philosophers of the twentieth century, and largely unknown to many today.

The Death of Transcendence presents a clear and compelling close reading and interpretation of the five essays included in Jean Amery's At the Mind's Limits, describing them as one continuous and progressing argument on the possibility of human society in the wake of the Holocaust.

This book brings together historians from Great Britain, the United States, Germany, France, Canada, Austria, and Latvia who have worked and published on fraternisation between Prisoners of War and local women during either the First or Second World War, providing the first comparative study of this multi-faceted phenomenon in different belligerent countries.

This volume demonstrates how German expansion in the Second World War II led to shortages, of food and other necessities including medicine, for the occupied populations, causing many to die from severe hunger or starvation.

This book offers an illuminating bridge between the political and social dimensions of the Soviet-Finnish War of 1939-40.

This book provides a narrative history of the BBC Radio Variety Department exploring, along chronological lines, the workings of, tensions within and the impact of BBC policies on the programme-making department which generated the organisation's largest audiences.

This book examines how Jewish intellectuals during and after the Second World War reinterpreted Homer's epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, in light of their own wartime experiences, drawing a parallel between the ancient Greek genocide of the Trojans and the Nazi genocide of the Jews.

Horrified by the Holocaust, social psychologist Stanley Milgram wondered if he could recreate the Holocaust in the laboratory setting.

This book focuses on a central notion in Theodor.

This book examines the role played by the international circulation of literature in constructing cultural memories of the Second World War.

The military alliance between the United States and Brazil played a critical role in the outcome of World War II, and yet it is largely overlooked in historiography of the war.

This volume presents insights from five years of intensive Holocaust, genocide, and mass atrocity education at Queensborough Community College (QCC) of the City University of New York (CUNY), USA, to offer four approaches-Arts-Based, Textual, Outcomes-Based, and Social Justice-to designing innovative, integrative, and differentiated pedagogies for today's college students.

In twentieth-century Germany, Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer rose to prominence as a brilliant physical chemist, even as several of his relatives-Dietrich Bonhoeffer among them-became involved in the resistance to Hitler, leading to their executions.

This book explores the significance of the post-First World War peace settlement negotiated at Versailles in 1919.

Die vorliegende Studie ist die erste, die den Erinnerungsspuren nachgeht, die Jehovas Zeugen (Bibelforscher) in den Erzähltexten Überlebender des Nationalsozialismus hinterlassen haben.

In this volume, contributors reflect on how to teach and mediate difficult history from the perspectives of guides.

A unique visual exploration of partisan and anti-partisan warfare in Yugoslavia between 1941 and 1944.

Ein eindrucksvolles Buch über die zwei Karrieren des SS-Standartenführers Joachim Peiper (1915-1976).

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The “Slow But Deadly” Dauntless was the US Navy’s premier carrier-borne dive bomber, and proved immensely successful in all the major Pacific naval campaigns of WW2.

History of the successful Polish Costal Command Squadron in RAF.

This book compares the systems of exploitative race relations associated with two racist regimes - slavery in the British colonial Caribbean and forced labour in the Holocaust in Germany and the Nazi-occupied lands in Europe.

This is the combat history of the Polish Montpellier squadron, which fought in Polish fighter aircraft MS 406s in the Battle of France in 1940.

The book covers the technical history of the late production P-47 Thunderbolts, with the “bubbletop” canopy.

A detailed story of the first air battles over Africa.

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This new collection of studies presents fresh insights into a war fought over unusually difficult terrain and with exceptional supply demands.

A fascinating look at the anxious pleasures of Japanese visual culture during World War II.

A fascinating exploration of how between February 1 and March 10, 1942, three small US task forces launched several unexpected raids across the Japanese defensive perimeter in the Central and South Pacific.

"e;In war novels authors typically feature ships such as destroyers, battleships, or aircraft carriers, but not support vessels.

Experimentelle Texte über Holocaust und Nationalsozialismus fallen durch ein Forschungsraster.

The Brewster Buffalo was born as the Brewster F2A for the United States Navy.

The Hawker Typhoon was designed to Air Ministry specification F.

This book uses an empathic reading of Yiddish diarists' feelings, evaluations, and assessments about persecutors in the Warsaw, Lodz, and Vilna ghettos to present an emotional history of persecution in the Nazi ghettos.

This book uses an empathic reading of Yiddish diarists' feelings, evaluations, and assessments about persecutors in the Warsaw, Lodz, and Vilna ghettos to present an emotional history of persecution in the Nazi ghettos.

Reveals the history of Protestant pastors and Catholic priests in Hitler''s military, and their role in Nazi crimes.

Reveals the history of Protestant pastors and Catholic priests in Hitler''s military, and their role in Nazi crimes.

Here are some of the best of Churchill's letters, many of a more personal nature, written to a wide range of people, including his schoolmaster, his American grandmother and former President Eisenhower.

Here are some of the best of Churchill's letters, many of a more personal nature, written to a wide range of people, including his schoolmaster, his American grandmother and former President Eisenhower.

Septembre 1939.

Un appel tourmenté de sa grande tante et voilà Simon Ehrlich propulsé dans un monde parallèle peuplé d'âmes juives qui illuminent l'histoire sous de nouvelles couleurs et divulguent des secrets d'État, des mystères scientifiques ou ceux du monde de l'Art.

Français à part entière la veille, indigène israélite d'Algérie le lendemain, l'abrogation du décret Crémieux le 7 octobre 1940 frappe le jeune Raymond Ellouz, venu d'Alger à Paris pour étudier la musique sacrée juive.

A savvy study (Publishers Weekly) and a fascinating exploration of the roles many spy novelists played during World War II and the influence of intelligence work on their writing.

La Libération de l'Alsace, annexée par l'Allemagne nazie en 1940, a duré aussi longtemps que celle du reste du territoire français.

This Palgrave Handbook examines the ways in which researchers and practitioners theorise, analyse, produce and make use of testimony.

Septembre 1939 : le champ de bataille prévisible du nouveau conflit franco-allemand est évacué à titre préventif.

"e;A fascinating, exciting story.

Les itinéraires de vies de ce livre renvoient certes à des trajectoires spécifiques mais, en réalité, l'histoire des Rafenberg, Kac, Rymer, Flak est celle de milliers de familles juives d'origine polonaise, prises dans la fureur antisémite du nazisme et de la collaboration vichyste, celle de nombreux immigrés juifs de la mythique Mitteleuropa.