Military history

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.

This book discusses the nature of masculinity in eighteenth-century literature and culture through the figure of the military man.

The inspiring story of 162 US paratroopers, dropped hopelessly off target, and the French villagers who assisted and supported them.

Examines how narratives of the 1919 Central European revolutions promoted a violent counterrevolutionary culture in interwar Germany and Hungary.

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From the moment that Prussia entered the world of the crusade movement and the zone of Western European external expansion in the thirteenth century, and was quickly dominated by the Teutonic Order, the new Prussian land created by the Order became a transitional area and a frontier country.

Poursuivant ses recherches sur ce qui a rendu possible l'Holocauste et les autres crimes nazis en Allemagne, Titus Milech presente des documents prives de sa famille (journaux intimes, lettres.

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There are an estimated 40,000 species of chrysomelids, or leaf beetles, worldwide.

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Athen, August 1944: Deutsche Besatzer und griechische Kollaborateure unterdrücken den Widerstand einheimischer Partisaninnen und Partisanen mit brutaler Gewalt und Deportationen, diese antworten mit Anschlägen und Überfällen.

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Diese Studie analysiert die ukrainische Erinnerungskultur seit der Unabhängigkeit 1991 im Hinblick auf die sowjetischen Soldaten, die im Zweiten Weltkrieg kämpften.

Focusing on the period of the Second World War, this book explores the emergence of surrealist landscape as a genre throughout the period of surrealist exile in the Americas.

Der Erfahrungsbericht des judisch-polnischen Gewerkschaftsanwalts Jerzy Gliksman aus dem Gulag der Jahre 1939-1941 stellt eines der bedeutendsten judischen Zeugnisse aus dem sowjetischen Lagersystem dar.

Nach 14-jähriger Forschungsarbeit vermittelt Markus Osterrieder hier ein umfassendes Verständnis des Ersten Weltkriegs.

The Allied effort to secure the Italian island of Sicily followed hard on the heels of the North African Campaign, when an Anglo-American force had finally hemmed the Axis forces into Tunisia where they were obliged to surrender on 13 May 1943, over a quarter of a million troops going into captivity.

Why were there so many missing in the First World War?

'The Empire is the Master [in the Far East] and they are the guests,' Yamagata Aritomo, the chief imperial strategist in Tokyo, once remarked.

This compendium looks at the lives of a selection of soldiers of the First World War who never returned home.

The compelling history of how the US Marines and their allies fought to preserve the Corps and establish its role in national defense.

The compelling history of how the US Marines and their allies fought to preserve the Corps and establish its role in national defense.

The greatest general of the Byzantine Empire captured Carthage and was thus granted the very last Triumph.

This book is not only intended for a general readership, but also for military researchers and historians who often find that they get lost in the huge and arcane raft of terminology employed by the army during the conflict.

Ranging from the monoplanes and biplanes of the early twentieth century to the hi-tech supersonic jet fighters used by air forces across the world today, the vast range of military aircraft that have been and are still in use today are documented here.

By 1938 Warrington, like the rest of Britain, was preparing for war with Germany.

The Division was created as part of the 1944 expansion of the Waffen SS and was rooted in Hitler's policy of divide and rule that he implemented even among his closest confidants.

This book analyzes a little-known but highly significant document that played a key role in early nuclear history: the Frisch-Peierls memorandum of March 1940.

This book analyzes a little-known but highly significant document that played a key role in early nuclear history: the Frisch-Peierls memorandum of March 1940.

Following the Norman Conquest, the manor of Wakefield became a Norman stronghold, with castles being built at Sandal and Wakefield by the Warenne family, earls of Surrey.

Of all the Allied strategic defensive campaigns in the first half of World War II, the fight to defend Malaya and Singapore provided perhaps the best chance to use special forces to wider effect.

This innovative approach to the history of World War I looks at ways in which military actors saw and perceived war, and how that exerted a significant influence over the decisions they made and the actions they took.

Focusing on the period of the Second World War, this book explores the emergence of surrealist landscape as a genre throughout the period of surrealist exile in the Americas.

Based on nearly five decades of research, this magisterial work is a biographical register and analysis of the people who most directly influenced the course of the Civil War, its high commanders.

Of all the Allied strategic defensive campaigns in the first half of World War II, the fight to defend Malaya and Singapore provided perhaps the best chance to use special forces to wider effect.