Specific wars and campaigns

In the 1930s and 1940s - amid the crises of totalitarianism, war and a perceived cultural collapse in the democratic West - a high-profile group of mostly Christian intellectuals met to map out 'middle ways' through the 'age of extremes'.

A groundbreaking look at how the interrogation rooms of the Korean War set the stage for a new kind of battle-not over land but over human subjectsTraditional histories of the Korean War have long focused on violations of the thirty-eighth parallel, the line drawn by American and Soviet officials in 1945 dividing the Korean peninsula.

The fascinating untold story of how Nazi architects and planners envisioned and began to build a model "e;Aryan"e; society in Norway during World War IIBetween 1940 and 1945, German occupiers transformed Norway into a vast construction zone.

The action-packed story of the WWII aviators known as the "e;362nd Suicide Outfit,"e; including 150 photographs.

"e;An authoritative look at an event that has taken on a legendary status .

The actions of Germany's armed SS force during D-Day in the series that's "e;a welcome addition .

A bold new history showing that the fear of Communism was a major factor in the outbreak of World War IIThe Spectre of War looks at a subject we thought we knew-the roots of the Second World War-and upends our assumptions with a masterful new interpretation.

Prisoners suffer in every conflict, but American servicemen captured during the Korean War faced a unique ordeal.

As chaplain for the USArmy's 102nd Evacuation Hospital in the European Theater, Renwick C.

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.

Most histories of World War I revolve around gruesome battles, ribboned generals and feats of military heroism.

A groundbreaking new history of how the Vietnam War thwarted U.

"e;A provocative, arresting, put-you-there account of a forgotten 1940s Army basketball team that we now realize shouldn't be forgotten"e; (Lars Anderson, New York Times-bestselling author).

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This vivid memoir describes the author's experiences as young girl in Poland, forced to flee to Warsaw after the Nazi bombing of Brest at the outbreak of World War II.

America's first West Coast armored and infantry training installation was built in California in 1941 and named Camp Cooke.

This is an overview of America's first effort in military aid to a foreign sovereign nation at a time when Europe was engaged in open warfare, Asia was facing a series of military confrontations, and most of the world thought global conflagration was inevitable.

The stories of thirty war criminals who escaped accountability, from a historian praised for his "e;well written, scrupulously researched"e; work (The New York Times).

"e;An intriguing and carefully argued entry into a small and often overlooked discussion of American political maneuvering at the end of World War I.

In Hitler's Shadow War, World War II scholar Donald M.

In 2011, amid the popular uprising against Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, the government sought in vain to shut down the Internet-based social networks of its people.

In time for the 100th anniversary of America's entry into the First World War, Private Heller and the Bantam Boysbased on Heller's long-hidden diarytells the tale of a group of privileged yet nave Princeton University students and their big, brawny Midwestern farm boy interloper, Ralph Heller.

The Fire on the Ocean: Naval War of 1812 presents Theodore Roosevelt's vigorous account of the maritime struggle between the young United States and Great Britain, emphasizing ship-to-ship actions, privateering, strategy, and the technical realities of naval combat.

A beautiful memorial to the brave women who defied Hitler by preserving a part of their hertiage and a part of themselves in this handwritten collection of recipes, proving that the Nazis could not break the spirit of the Jewish people.

Ernie Coleman survived the worst open-sea defeat in US Navy history.

One of the costliest battles of World War II happens to be one of the least known.

A Japanese-American spy, captured by the Japanese in WWII, tells of his remarkable capture and survival.

Jewish armed resistance during the Holocaust has been amply documented, debunking the stereotypical view of the Jews as passive victims of Hitler and the Nazis.

This book investigates cinematic representations of the murder of European Jews and civilian opposition to Nazi occupation from the war up until the twenty-first century.

Camp Huntsville was one of the first and largest POW camps constructed in America during World War II.

A comprehensive reference guide to German military symbols used on documents, maps, orders of battle and elsewhere.

This biography of George Brinton McClellan Jr.

Herodotus's The Histories is the foundational work of Western historiography, a vast inquiry into the causes and consequences of the Greco-Persian Wars.

This book explains why more Jewish people survived in some German-occupied countries compared to others during World War II.

Divided into five discrete sections, this book examines the issue of Holocaust denial, and in some cases "e;Holocaust inversion"e; in North America, Europe, and the Middle East and its relationship to the history of antisemitism before and since the Holocaust.

This book investigates the political context and intentions behind the trialling of Japanese war criminals in the wake of World War Two.

This book is the first full-length study of the museum object as a memory medium in history exhibitions about the Nazi era, the Second World War, and the Holocaust.

This book is a contribution to the emerging field of research-based performance, which seeks to gain a wider audience for issues that are crucial to our understanding of history and to informing our future actions.

This book presents the first comparative study of the works of Charlotte Delbo, Noor Inayat Khan, and Germaine Tillion in relation to their vigorous struggles against Nazi aggression during World War II and the Holocaust.

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

This book offers a unique approach to memory studies by focusing on local memory work conducted across the divide of the fall of Communism, whereas other histories have consistently used 1989 as a watershed moment.

This volume is concerned with the hitherto neglected role of the humanities in the histories of the idea of race.

This book examines the pioneering radio broadcasts and television documentaries about the United States made in the 1950s by the influential West German journalist Peter von Zahn.

This innovative volume examines the nexus between war crimes trials and the pursuit of collaborators in post-war Asia.

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Caught in a violent storm and blown far off their intended course, five American airmen--flying the dangerous Himalayan supply route known as "e;The Hump"e;--were forced to bail out just seconds before their plane ran out of fuel.

This book explores alternatives to realist, triumphalist, and heroic representations of war in British film and television.

This book explores the transformative impact that the immigration of large numbers of Jews from the former Soviet Union to Germany had on Jewish communities from 1990 to 2005.

This meticulous study is a concentrated look at naval admiral Chester W.

This book is a study of British official attitudes towards the Danubian countries (Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania and Yugoslavia) from Hitler's rise to power in 1933 to the year 1941, a period that marked serious but fruitless British political and economic efforts to unite this unruly part of Europe against Nazi ascendancy.