Military history

Nurse Memoirs from the Great War in Britain, France, and Germany examines an understudied corpus of memoirs in English, French, and German stemming from the unprecedented involvement of women in the war effort.

This book examines Jewish life in Vienna just after the Nazi-takeover in 1938.

This book explores the contours of civic identity in the town of Vichy, France.

This book examines the League of Nations, state-supported terrorism, and British foreign policy after the rise of Hitler in the 1930s.

This collection of thirteen essays examines reactions in Eastern Europe to the Prague Spring and Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.

This gripping book brings back to life the events surrounding the internment of ten German Nuclear Scientists immediately after World War II.

This book presents the backstory of how the Catholic Church came to clarify and embrace the role of Israel in salvation history, at the behest of an unlikely personality: Jules Isaac.

This book explores the representation of intra-state conflicts.

This book is the first major study of the blackout in the Second World War.

This book concerns building an idealized image of the society in which the Holocaust occurred.

This volume examines Max Weber's pre-World War I thinking about bureaucracy.

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This book offers a comprehensive Possible Worlds framework with which to analyse counterfactual historical fiction.

In this discourse history, W J Dodd analyses the 'unquiet voices' of opponents whose contemporary critiques of Nazism, from positions of territorial and inner exile, focused on the 'language of Nazism'.

This book examines the impact of rumour during the French Revolution, offering a new approach to understanding the experiences of those who lived through it.

Five major groups fought one another in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Second World War: The German and Italian occupiers, the Serbian Chetniks, the Ustasha of the Independent State of Croatia, the Bosnian Muslims, and the Tito-led Partisans.

This transnational, interdisciplinary study of traumatic neurosis moves beyond the existing histories of medical theory, welfare, and symptomatology.

This book consists of ten essays that examine the ways in which language has been used to evoke what Lawrence L.

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This book examines the British Admiralty's engagement with science and technological innovation in the nineteenth century.

This book explores European soldiers' encounters with their continent's exotic frontiers from the French Revolution to the First World War.

Margarete Susman was among the great Jewish women philosophers of the twentieth century, and largely unknown to many today.

This collection of essays by Indonesian and foreign contributors offers new and highly original analyses of the mass violence in Indonesia which began in 1965 and its aftermath.

This book provides an oral history of women who served in the U.

This book offers a timely, and fresh historical perspective on the politics of independent Ireland.

This book addresses the many avenues that are still left unexplored when it comes to our understanding of the First World War in the Low Countries.

This book offers a radical perspective on what are conventionally called the Islamic Conquests of the seventh century.

This volume examines the French Revolution's relationship with and impact on religious communities and religion in a transnational perspective.

This book reveals the nature and level of British engagement with controversial and lethal nerve agent weapons from the end of the Second World War to Britain's submission of a draft Chemical Weapons Convention.

This book offers new international perspectives on captivity in wartime during the twentieth century.

As with 'appeasement', myths and legends have proliferated about the origins of the Cold War.

The Death of Transcendence presents a clear and compelling close reading and interpretation of the five essays included in Jean Amery's At the Mind's Limits, describing them as one continuous and progressing argument on the possibility of human society in the wake of the Holocaust.

This book brings together historians from Great Britain, the United States, Germany, France, Canada, Austria, and Latvia who have worked and published on fraternisation between Prisoners of War and local women during either the First or Second World War, providing the first comparative study of this multi-faceted phenomenon in different belligerent countries.

This volume demonstrates how German expansion in the Second World War II led to shortages, of food and other necessities including medicine, for the occupied populations, causing many to die from severe hunger or starvation.

This comparative and transnational study of landscapes in the First World War offers new perspectives on the ways in which landscapes were idealised, mobilised, interpreted, exploited, transformed and destroyed by the conflict.

This book offers an illuminating bridge between the political and social dimensions of the Soviet-Finnish War of 1939-40.

This book examines the Empire's Patriotic Fund, established in Victoria, Australia, in 1901 to assist the dependants of the men serving in the Boer War and the men invalided home because of wounds or illness.

This book provides a narrative history of the BBC Radio Variety Department exploring, along chronological lines, the workings of, tensions within and the impact of BBC policies on the programme-making department which generated the organisation's largest audiences.

This book examines how Jewish intellectuals during and after the Second World War reinterpreted Homer's epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, in light of their own wartime experiences, drawing a parallel between the ancient Greek genocide of the Trojans and the Nazi genocide of the Jews.

Five major groups fought one another in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Second World War: The German and Italian occupiers, the Serbian Chetniks, the Ustasha of the Independent State of Croatia, the Bosnian Muslims, and the Tito-led Partisans.

Horrified by the Holocaust, social psychologist Stanley Milgram wondered if he could recreate the Holocaust in the laboratory setting.

This book focuses on a central notion in Theodor.

This book examines Britain's complex relationship with the mine in the years 1900-1915.

This book explores presidential justifications of every major American military conflict from the War of 1812 to the Second Gulf War.

This book examines the role played by the international circulation of literature in constructing cultural memories of the Second World War.

The military alliance between the United States and Brazil played a critical role in the outcome of World War II, and yet it is largely overlooked in historiography of the war.

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This volume presents insights from five years of intensive Holocaust, genocide, and mass atrocity education at Queensborough Community College (QCC) of the City University of New York (CUNY), USA, to offer four approaches-Arts-Based, Textual, Outcomes-Based, and Social Justice-to designing innovative, integrative, and differentiated pedagogies for today's college students.

In twentieth-century Germany, Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer rose to prominence as a brilliant physical chemist, even as several of his relatives-Dietrich Bonhoeffer among them-became involved in the resistance to Hitler, leading to their executions.