Specific wars and campaigns

This WWII military study examines the combat experiences of three Allied divisions charged with spearheading the invasion of Normandy.

Brought up in poverty in the West of Ireland, Chris ODowd ran away to join the Irish Guards aged 18.

Considere par Eisenhower et les Allies comme un front secondaire a contenir et confiner jusqu'a la capitulation generale de l'Allemagne, le front de l'Ouest prit une tout autre dimension pour le general de Gaulle.

Migration ist in aller Munde, und schnell wird vergessen, dass auch viele Deutsche und Osterreicher einst gezwungen waren, ihr Heimatland zu verlassen.

Traces the contrasting World War II experiences of a German anti-Nazi and a loyal Hitler supporter on the Eastern Front.

Traces the contrasting World War II experiences of a German anti-Nazi and a loyal Hitler supporter on the Eastern Front.

Explores the daring World War II naval raids using midget submarines, featuring firsthand accounts and submarine recoveries.

Explores the daring World War II naval raids using midget submarines, featuring firsthand accounts and submarine recoveries.

"e;The author delivers in fine detail, supported by excellent appendices and notes, the role of officers and men in the defense of the Dardanelles.

Airpower in the War against ISIS chronicles the planning and conduct of Operation Inherent Resolve by U.

As World War Two drew to a close, jet-powered aircraft were beginning to be introduced into service.

Airpower in the War against ISIS chronicles the planning and conduct of Operation Inherent Resolve by U.

The Battle of the Bulge took the Allied armies by surprise in 1944.

The Battle of the Bulge took the Allied armies by surprise in 1944.

75 Jahre nach dem Nürnberger Hauptkriegsverbrecherprozess ist die Strafverfolgung der nationalsozialistischen Systemverbrechen faktisch abgeschlossen.

75 Jahre nach dem Nürnberger Hauptkriegsverbrecherprozess ist die Strafverfolgung der nationalsozialistischen Systemverbrechen faktisch abgeschlossen.

This award-winning Civil War history examines Robert E.

Compares Nazi trials in East and West Germany from 1945–1950 to challenge assumptions about the political outcomes of prosecuting mass atrocities.

This book examines how local elites from the dissolved Austria-Hungary managed to survive and often thrive despite the empire's collapse in 1918.

Explains the extent, necessity and importance of black-market activity in France during the Second World War.

This book examines how local elites from the dissolved Austria-Hungary managed to survive and often thrive despite the empire's collapse in 1918.

This cultural history of the Japanese home front during the Asia-Pacific War challenges ideas of the period as one of deprivation and repression.

Offers an unprecedentedly rich portrait of the vibrant intellectual and intercultural exchanges sparked by the Crusades in thirteenth-century Acre.

Recreates the harsh mountain warfare during the Wehrmacht''s and Red Army''s clash on the highest battlefield of World War Two.

A transnational history of how Indigenous peoples mobilised en masse to support the war effort on the battlefields and the home fronts.

The legacies service in the First World War had on women''s lives and the privileges it afforded some of them.

The lives of ordinary German soldiers offer new insights into the occupation of France, the history of Nazism and the Second World War.

Challenges the persistent orthodoxies of the Tokyo tribunal and provides a new framework for evaluating the trial, revealing its importance to international jurisprudence.

North and South Vietnamese youths had very different experiences growing up during the Vietnamese War.

Paying for Hitler''s War is a comparative economic study of twelve Nazi-occupied countries during World War II.

The story of the Dubliners who served in the British military and in republican forces during the First World War and the Irish Revolution.

Sheds new light on the presence and impact of Continental European literary traditions in post-Napoleonic Britain.

This study of military routines is vital for understanding why soldiers from Western democracies participating in multinational missions vary in their use of force.

Explores the ways poets address the difficult question of how to remember, and commemorate, those killed in the First World War and beyond.

This innovative book reveals children''s experiences and how they became victims and actors during the twentieth century''s biggest conflicts.

Demonstrates the crucial role that the Constitution played in the coming of the Civil War.

Examines the environmental and technological complexity of South Carolina inland rice plantations from 1670 to 1860.

Drawing on archival sources and eyewitness accounts, this book explores Soviet Russians'' experience of Nazi rule in German-occupied northwest Russia.

The first book that compares the Confederate South and Southern Italy in two contemporaneous civil wars during 1861–1865.

Mining new sources, Klein tells the dramatic story of Italy''s Jews, from emancipation to Fascism, the Holocaust, and postwar myth-making.

The experiences of men who fought at sea reveal the relationship between discipline, leadership, and the strength of the fleet.

This book examines the widespread use of postapocalyptic fantasies in American literary texts in the early nineteenth century.

Contests over Berlin''s streets in the interwar period reveal the fragility of consumer capitalism, urban order, and liberal democracy.

Reconsiders Secretary of Defense Robert S.

Captive Anzacs explores the experiences of the 198 Australians who became prisoners of the Ottomans during the First World War.

Reshapes the discourse surrounding the nature of British global power in this crucial period of transformation in international politics.

The first comprehensive study of the Brienne dynasty, a fascinating example of the international aristocracy in the central Middle Ages.

Examines the economic motivations and complications that drove ethnic cleansing in the post-World War II Sudetenland.