Specific wars and campaigns

Poursuivant ses recherches sur ce qui a rendu possible l'Holocauste et les autres crimes nazis en Allemagne, Titus Milech presente des documents prives de sa famille (journaux intimes, lettres.

Der Zweite Weltkrieg dauerte vom 1.

Athen, August 1944: Deutsche Besatzer und griechische Kollaborateure unterdrücken den Widerstand einheimischer Partisaninnen und Partisanen mit brutaler Gewalt und Deportationen, diese antworten mit Anschlägen und Überfällen.

Diese Studie analysiert die ukrainische Erinnerungskultur seit der Unabhängigkeit 1991 im Hinblick auf die sowjetischen Soldaten, die im Zweiten Weltkrieg kämpften.

Focusing on the period of the Second World War, this book explores the emergence of surrealist landscape as a genre throughout the period of surrealist exile in the Americas.

Der Erfahrungsbericht des judisch-polnischen Gewerkschaftsanwalts Jerzy Gliksman aus dem Gulag der Jahre 1939-1941 stellt eines der bedeutendsten judischen Zeugnisse aus dem sowjetischen Lagersystem dar.

Nach 14-jähriger Forschungsarbeit vermittelt Markus Osterrieder hier ein umfassendes Verständnis des Ersten Weltkriegs.

This compendium looks at the lives of a selection of soldiers of the First World War who never returned home.

The compelling history of how the US Marines and their allies fought to preserve the Corps and establish its role in national defense.

The compelling history of how the US Marines and their allies fought to preserve the Corps and establish its role in national defense.

By 1938 Warrington, like the rest of Britain, was preparing for war with Germany.

The Division was created as part of the 1944 expansion of the Waffen SS and was rooted in Hitler's policy of divide and rule that he implemented even among his closest confidants.

This book analyzes a little-known but highly significant document that played a key role in early nuclear history: the Frisch-Peierls memorandum of March 1940.

This book analyzes a little-known but highly significant document that played a key role in early nuclear history: the Frisch-Peierls memorandum of March 1940.

Of all the Allied strategic defensive campaigns in the first half of World War II, the fight to defend Malaya and Singapore provided perhaps the best chance to use special forces to wider effect.

This innovative approach to the history of World War I looks at ways in which military actors saw and perceived war, and how that exerted a significant influence over the decisions they made and the actions they took.

Focusing on the period of the Second World War, this book explores the emergence of surrealist landscape as a genre throughout the period of surrealist exile in the Americas.

Based on nearly five decades of research, this magisterial work is a biographical register and analysis of the people who most directly influenced the course of the Civil War, its high commanders.

Of all the Allied strategic defensive campaigns in the first half of World War II, the fight to defend Malaya and Singapore provided perhaps the best chance to use special forces to wider effect.

This memoir takes an unvarnished, first-hand look at the good, the bad, and the ugly of an infantryman's life in the Vietnam war zone.

The current battle between superstitious and prejudiced forces from the past, against more enlightened modern ones, began when Winston Churchill was appointed colonial secretary in 1920.

A shocking proposal that changes everything.

In the final years of World War II, the campaign against Japan stepped up in a series of bloody battles with each side having much to lose.

In 1933 Berlin and Munich, fifteen-year-olds Katarina and Maria, who have never met, share the same dream: to become nurses who care for all regardless of race, creed, or colour.

The story of how a young cavalry officer eager to serve his country became a pilot and then, when success beckoned, had his life taken over by a very skilled group of publicists, writers, photographers and artists.

Kampfgruppe Peiper was the spearhead of the German 6th Panzer-Army in the Ardennes, responsible for clearing the way for the German tanks towards the Meuse and Antwerp.

Norman Ridley explores how Hitler's artistic and architectural vision for Germany led to the monumental structures which we now associate with the Third Reich.

An in-depth overview of the role of the Royal Air Force's leaders during World War II.

Adolf Hitler invaded Western Europe on 10 May 1940.

This book fills a lacuna in the English-language literature dealing with Norway and the Holocaust by focusing on how Norwegian Jews, and those who facilitated their rescue, remembered the experience of their departure and passage across hostile territory to sanctuary in Sweden.

The war in Vietnam was an ethical minefield for the medical humanitarians who volunteered to treat the injured and dying.

This book provides the first account of the Isonzo/Soca frontline through the multidisciplinary lens of modern conflict archaeology, offering unique insights into multilayered conflict landscapes of the Soca Front.

The de Havilland DH.

Here is the exhaustive and exhilarating story of HMS Venomous, one of sixty-seven V&W destroyers built at the end of the Great War that were to play a key role in the struggle to keep the sea lanes open in the Atlantic, Home Waters and the Mediterranean during the following war.

Scholar William Nester explores Franklin D.

In this fascinating little book, Baden-Powell uses his extensive military experience and memories of service in Africa to distill soldiering down to 'the four C-s': Courage, Common sense, Cunning and Cheerfulness.

In the final years of World War II, the campaign against Japan stepped up in a series of bloody battles with each side having much to lose.

The de Havilland DH.

Ernest Grimaud de Caux was The Times correspondent in Madrid from 1910 to 1939, encompassing the period of Primo de Rivera’s Dictatorship, the fall of the monarchy, and the Civil War.

A former Great War fighter pilot, Hermann Göring became, at his height, the second most powerful Nazi.

A deeply researched history of Floridas strategic and military roles in World War IIThe first book to share the entire history of Floridas involvement in World War II, State of War explores how the war transformed the state into a major hub of military industry and an important training base for ground, naval, and air forces.

A vivid eyewitness account of US troops fighting in the Vietnam War by the award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author and journalist.

Bill Adlam’s hair-raising escape from Dunkirk, his dramatic commando raids and his storming the D-Day beaches reads like fiction.