Specific wars and campaigns

During the First World War, the Jewish population of Central Europe was politically, socially, and experientially diverse, to an extent that resists containment within a simple historical narrative.

In historical writing on World War I, Czech-speaking soldiers serving in the Austro-Hungarian military are typically studied as Czechs, rarely as soldiers, and never as men.

Work played a central role in Nazi ideology and propaganda, and even today there remain some who still emphasize the supposedly positive aspects of the regime s labor policies, ignoring the horrific and inhumane conditions they produced.

From 1942 to 1950, nearly twenty thousand Poles found refuge from the horrors of war-torn Europe in camps within Britain s African colonies, including Uganda, Tanganyika, Kenya and Northern and Southern Rhodesia.

A multifaceted look at historian Raul Hilberg, tracing the evolution of Holocaust research from a marginal subdiscipline into a vital intellectual project.

The Sonderkommando the special squad of enslaved Jewish laborers who were forced to work in the gas chambers and crematoria of Auschwitz-Birkenau comprise one of the most fascinating and troubling topics within Holocaust history.

In this rich and resonant study, Joanna Newman recounts the little-known story of this Jewish exodus to the British West Indies.

Prior to Hitler s occupation, nearly 120,000 Jews inhabited the areas that would become the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia; by 1945, all but a handful had either escaped or been deported and murdered by the Nazis.

A rich and accessible introduction to the role of the German railway system in the Holocaust, a topic that remains understudied even today.

Taking as its point of departure Omer Bartov s acclaimed Anatomy of a Genocide, this volume brings together previously unknown accounts by three individuals from Buczacz.

General Harbord brought to his service in France a long and honorable record as fighting man.

"e;There have been other books about Colonel Lawrence, but none so solid as this.

These memoirs of Countess Potocka of Poland, which were first published in the present English translation in 1900, chronicle the period from the third partition of Poland through to the incorporation into the Russian Empire under Tsar Alexander I.

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Someone has said that New York is not a city-it's a way of life.

Most of Hjalmar Rued Holand's adult life could well be called a 65-year love affair with the woods and waters of the Door Peninsula of northeastern Wisconsin.

Father Escalante, who was born in Treceno, Cantabria, Spain around 1750, became a Franciscan in the Convento Grande in Mexico City at the age of 17.

The present volume, originally published in 1950, represents a scarce collection of Michigan native Ernest Jack Sharpe's poems, autobiographical and satirical pieces written under his famous pen name Newaygo Newt.

Cattle driving was a major economic activity in the 19th century American West, particularly between 1856 and 1896.

In the present volume, former school teacher-turned-hookey cop, Florence McGehee, chronicles her time as a truant officer in a fruit-growing area of California.

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In this stimulating volume, which was originally published in 1955, Professor Norman A.

Most of Kalamazoo County's early white settlers were fur traders from England or New York.

This book is a stimulating contribution to the new literature.

FOOTPRINTS OF ASSURANCE is a comprehensive and complete record of fire marks used by fire insurance companies in sixty-three countries.

John R.

This autobiographical novel of the eminent English poet, Siegfried Sassoon was first published in 1936.

This autobiographical novel of the eminent English poet, Siegfried Sassoon was first published in 1930.

This autobiographical novel of the eminent English poet, Siegfried Sassoon was first published in 1927.

First published posthumously in 1932, this is the second and final volume of French Field Marshal Joffre's fascinating memoirs.

First published posthumously in 1932, this is the first volume of two that comprise French Field Marshal Joffre's fascinating memoirs.

MY personal participation in general politics in the Ottoman Empire begins with the coup d'etat of January 23, 1913.

The Whispering Gallery: Being Leaves from the Diary of an Ex-Diplomat, which first appeared anonymously in 1926, takes the form of a portrait gallery, consisting of brief biographical sketches of public figures.

Katherine Jane "e;Kate"e; Chase Sprague (1840-1899) was a Washington society hostess during the American Civil War.

The Memoirs of George Sherston brings together in one memorable volume the three widely-hailed "e;autobiographical novels"e; of the eminent English poet, Siegfried Sassoon.

Nachman Syrkin (1868-1924) was a political theorist, founder of Labour Zionism and a prolific writer in the Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian, German and English languages.

A history of three centuries in which a new race engulfed a continent.

The present volume, which was first published in 1799, is the autobiography of frontiersman Col.

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Lewis Reimann was the son of German immigrants who ran a boarding-house for miners and loggers in the Iron River district of Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

Wherever he went, in whatever country he visited, Senator Malone applied himself to the purpose of his visit with the mind of a trained engineer.

"e;'The books that help you most are those that make you think.

AN INTIMATE, HUMAN AND REVEALING PORTRAIT OF THE MAN WHO MADE SUCH A UNIQUE IMPACT UPON THE AMERICAN SCENE.

THIS careful biographical monograph gives Pennsylvania's Quaker 'king' of the middle 18th century the attention which has long been his due.

AUTHENTIC STORY IN THE LORE OF THE AMERICAN SENATE-THE SAGA OF "e;THE FOUR,"e; WHO DOMINATED THAT BODY AROUND THE TURN OF THE CENTURY.

Charlemagne Tower (1809-1889) was an American lawyer and businessman active in acquiring land in the Schuylkill Valley in Pennsylvania and serving as an officer for coal and railroad companies.