Military history

This business history elucidates the international history of the interwar period by putting the armaments sector front and center.

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.

Argues that Qing China was not just a continental empire, but a maritime power protecting its interests at sea.

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.

Understanding the context of terrorism requires a trek through history, in this case the history of terrorist activity in the United States since the Civil War.

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

Why are civilian populations targeted in modern wars despite laws and ethical claims insisting on civilian protections?

A compelling and revisionist account of Florence''s economic, literary and social history in the immediate aftermath of the Black Death.

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

Studies all four branches of the Athenian armed forces to show how they helped make democratic Athens a superpower.

The fortlet, a previously overlooked military installation type, reveals how Rome built, secured, and lost its Empire.

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.

"e;The definitive account of Union Maj.

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.