Specific wars and campaigns

Based on thorough ethnographic fieldwork in a refugee camp in Tanzania this book provides a rich account of the benevolent disciplining mechanisms of humanitarian agencies, led by the UNHCR, and of the situated, dynamic, indeterminate, and fluid nature of identity (re)construction in the camp.

In this first interdisciplinary study of this contentious subject, leading experts in politics, history, and philosophy examine the complex aspects of the terror bombing of German cities during World War II.

As cross-cultural migration increases democratic states face a particular challenge: how to grant equal rights and dignity to individuals while recognizing cultural distinctiveness.

The early twentieth-century advent of aerial bombing made successful evacuations essential to any war effort, but ordinary people resented them deeply.

The exodus of refugees from Nazi Germany in the 1930s has received far more attention from historians, social scientists, and demographers than many other migrations and persecutions in Europe.

Around the planet, Indigenous people are using old and new technologies to amplify their voices and broadcast information to a global audience.

Our lives are mostly composed of ordinary reality the flow of moment-to-moment existence and yet it has been largely overlooked as a subject in itself for anthropological study.

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In 1945, Europeans confronted a legacy of mass destruction and death: millions of families had lost their homes and livelihoods; millions of men in uniform had lost their lives; and millions more had been displaced by the war s destruction, and the genocidal policies of the Nazi regime.

Modern military history, inspired by social and cultural historical approaches, increasingly puts the national histories of the Second World War to the test.

Vast and brilliant white, P&Os flagship the SS Canberrawas a final salute to a bygone era of opulence even as she embarked on her maiden voyage, For a decade she carried passengers between Britain and Australia, a 90-day voyage of pampering and decadence.

Alice Cooper: Golf Monster is the full account of how Cooper became one of the biggest rock stars on the planet with hits like "e;School's Out"e; and "e;Elected"e;, nearly lost it all to alcoholism, and then turned things around by finding a healthy obsession (golf) to replace his unhealthy addiction to alcohol.

Well written and persuasive objective and well-rounded.

NEW PAPERBACK EDITION Salmons vivid use of recollections and dramatic quotes brings alive an unjustly forgotten conflict Time Out With even World War II now just on the edges of living memory, and with British forces now engaged in a lengthy, brutal and attritional old-fashioned war in Afghanistan, historical attention is starting to turn to the Korean War of the early 1950s.

The Channel Islands were what could have happened to all of us: a test-run of German occupation.

Bletchley Park has played a vital role in British history.

Stephen Bungays magisterial history is acclaimed as the account of the Battle of Britain.

A study and reassessment of the major World War II battle in the South Atlantic between the British and German navies.

The war on Western Front from 1914 to 1918 remains one of the notoriously great tragedies of the twentieth century.

This WWII military history presents stunning, never-before-published photographs from life aboard the infamous German Battleship Tirpitz.

As well as being pathological about his security, Hitler believed only he could successfully oversee the Third Reichs operations.

A pictorial history of the end of World War II from the perspective of Nazi Germany.

What was life in the Red Army like for the ordinary soldier during the Great Patriotic War, the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany on the Eastern Front?

This highly illustrated book covers the activities of the German Army on the River Somme throughout the long years of The Great War.

The author of Japan's Gestapo details the atrocities committed by the Japanese Navy during World War II.

This illustrated WWII history captures the brutal conditions and bitter combat of the Battle of Stalingrad through rare wartime photographs.

Winston Churchill was an extraordinary person - a politician, a statesman, a man of letters and a soldier but it was for his wartime leadership during the Second World War that he is chiefly remembered.

The 900-day siege of the Soviet city of Leningrad by the combined forces of the Germans and the Finns is one of the most remarkable, and terrible, events of the Second World War, yet until recently it has not received the attention it deserves it has been overshadowed by other massive confrontations on the Eastern Front, at Stalingrad and Kursk.

The photographs are taken from five unpublished albums focussing on the German invasion of Russia in 1941 Operation Barbarossa.

A rare collection of personal photographs following Nazi Germany's airborne soldiers on their missions through the Balkans, Crete, and Russia.

Sturmgeschtz III was originally designed as an assault weapon, but as war progressed it was increasingly used in a defensive role and evolved into an assault gun and tank destroyer.

A World War II pictorial history detailing Nazi Germany's Auschwitz concentration camp, its monstrous creators, and what went on inside.

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A pictorial history of the Nazi retreat from the Western and Eastern Fronts, back to Germany, as World War II came to an end.

Based on interviews with survivors of German WWI prison camps, this account documents the heroism and perseverance of British troops in captivity.

A guide to daily life and experiences for British servicemen in World War I, from recruitment and training to the battle and its aftermath.

An in-depth study of how these direct fire weapons were actually employed on the battlefields and their true place in the armory of World War I.

The Second World War spawned a plethora of crack special forces units (Long Range Desert Group, SAS, SBS, Phantom and Commandos) but 30 Assault Unit remains, even today, far more secretive and exclusive than the others.

In 1913 Lieutenant General Sir Francis Lloyd was appointed to the supreme position reserved for Guardsmen, the command of the London Districts.

To survive baling out from a doomed aircraft or a crash-landing in enemy occupied territory certainly required a large element of luck.

On 15 September 1916 during the Battle of the Somme, tanks - one of the decisive weapons of twentieth-century warfare - were sent into action for the first time.

The author of Beneath the Waves provides a thorough history of the sinkings of Britain's destroyer warships during World War II.

The Royal Naval Patrol Service, or Harry Tates Navy as it was commonly known, was a unique service with its own rules and regulations.

The great retreat of the British Expeditionary Force from Mons in August 1914 is one of the most famous in military history, and it is justly celebrated.

The Laforays were the largest, most powerfully armed and successful ships of this type to see frontline action with the Royal Navy in WWII.

This WWI history examines the significant yet overlooked British offensive that achieved major advances on the Western Front.

Women in the Second World War explores the experiences of women who served in the armed forces, or complimentary services.

The true story of American Airlines pilots who ferried essential supplies to US troops over the Himalayas is recounted in this thrilling WWII history.

6 Group was born out of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP), which, among other things called for the formation of 25 Canadian Squadrons in Britain.