Specific wars and campaigns

In Cosmopolitics of the Camera, the leading experts in the field present Les Archives de la Planete (The Archives of the Planet) - Albert Kahn's stunning collection of early colour photography and documentary film - and discuss the extraordinary intellectual context from which it grew.

In Cosmopolitics of the Camera, the leading experts in the field present Les Archives de la Planete (The Archives of the Planet) - Albert Kahn's stunning collection of early colour photography and documentary film - and discuss the extraordinary intellectual context from which it grew.

A shocking account of Nazi genocide and the inhuman conditions in Auschwitz, but equally shocking is the initial disbelief with which the revelations were met.

Twenty-first-century views of historical violence have been immeasurably influenced by cultural representations of the Second World War.

The collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy at the end of World War I ushered in a period of radical change for East-Central European political structures and national identities.

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.

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.

The story of the achievements of the Empire pioneers has been obscured in recent years by the attention given to continual changes in emergent countries.

The Poppy is a symbol of British militarism, not a badge of peace.

Defence of Europe by Sikh Soldiers in the World Wars is a fascinating history of the much-forgotten Sikh contribution to the two World Wars.

The second half of a two-part study on Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's plan to invade Soviet Russia during World War II, and what went wrong.

This book explores the military events and diplomatic games in the later years of the Second World War through which Josip Broz Tito's Yugoslav Partisans resistance movement gained the support of the Allies and, eventually, control over Yugoslavia itself.

The early battles of the First World War were open, mobile affairs whose tactics had long been familiar to professional soldiers.

'The best political weapon is the weapon of terror.

This text analyzes what really happened in Glasgow in the tumultuous years following World War I.

Four months pregnant, Vera Wohlauf, wife of a serving SS officer, took sadistic pleasure in rounding up victims for Treblinka.

Few humans in history have been satirized as remorselessly as Adolf Hitler.

In 1945, Hitler committed suicide in his bunker as the Third Reich collapsed and the Red Army swamped Berlin.

'No one can deny Paul Roland is a complete master of his subject.

A shocking account of Nazi genocide and the inhuman conditions in Auschwitz, but equally shocking is the initial disbelief with which the revelations were met.

The Israeli army, officially named the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), was established in 1948 by David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, who believed that 'the whole nation is the army'.

Co-author of the groundbreaking Empire and Multitude, Michael Hardt examines The Declaration of Independence and other texts by Thomas Jefferson, arguing that his powerful concept of democracy provides a biting critique of the current American administration.

Abraham Lincoln recognized that the US Civil War would be a "e;hard war"e;.

The subject of numerous biographies and history books, Winston Churchill has been repeatedly voted as one of the greatest of Englishmen.

The extent and irreversibility of US decline is becoming ever more obvious as America loses war after war and as one industry after another loses its technological edge.

In a series of debates with Oliver Cromwell in Civil War England of 1647, the Levellers argued for democracy for the first time in British history.

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Stone & Stone World War II Books Editors ChoiceContinuing his magisterial account of the Eastern Front campaigns, the writer cited by The Atlantic as “indisputably the Wests foremost expert on the subject” focuses here on the Red Armys operations from the fall of 1943 through the April 1944.

The graphic history of the Nazi attempt to destroy the Jews of Europe during the Second World War is illustrated in this series of 363 detailed maps.

From its origins to its terrible legacy, the tortuous course of the Great War is vividly set out in a series of 196 fascinating maps.

A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR.

'Judicious and absorbing' New York Times Book ReviewIn this biography of Edward Lansdale (1908-1987), the man said to be the model for Greene's The Quiet American, Max Boot demonstrates how Lansdale pioneered a 'hearts and minds' diplomacy, first in the Philippines, then in Vietnam.

At Terezin, many children sang for the Nazi officials and the Red Cross.