Regional / International studies

Reflections of Emma is a book about a lifetime of thoughts of a woman known only to us as Emma.

Winner of the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary Prize for Non-fictionEdith's Book (published as Edith's Story in the US) is often compared to Anne Frank's diary.

Deportations by train were critical in the Nazis genocidal vision of the Final Solution of the Jewish Question.

Balkoski's depiction of 'Bloody Omaha' is the literary accompaniment to the white-knuckle Omaha Beach scene that opens Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan.

In ancient Israel, at the crossroads of the great trading routes, a man named Benaiah is searching for a fresh start in life.

It is the spring of 1944 and the outcome of World War II hangs in the balance, everything now hinges on an imminent Allied Invasion into France, D-Day.

In the aftermath of the Civil War, the Lost Cause gave white southerners a new collective identity anchored in the stories, symbols, and rituals of the defeated Confederacy.

A fully illustrated survey of the Soviet infantryman on the Eastern Front in World War II.

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A powerful story of sexual awakening during the Second World War, My Queer War, from the noted memoirist and critic James Lord tells the story of a young man's exposure to the terrors, dislocations, and horrors of armed conflict.

Why do we have a divided nation at this point in history?

With characteristic originality and insight, Trudier Harris-Lopez offers a new and challenging approach to the work of African American writers in these twelve previously unpublished essays.

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Ce livre en 2 tomes met au jour pour la première fois, l'essentiel des "Écrits de Jean Moulin" lui-même, puisque seul avait paru, posthume et préfacé par le Général de Gaulle, "Premier combat", en 1947 aux éditions de Minuit.

J'ai fait la connaissance de mon grand-père sur son lit de mort.

This important new book is one of few available eyewitness tales about the often overlooked role of the Air / Sea Rescue teams during World War II.

Political Theology II is Carl Schmitt's last book.

« Parce qu'il est un temps où il devient urgent de transmettre le passé dont on a hérité, je ressentis dans les années 2000 la responsabilité d'offrir dans la mémoire de notre famille une place à ceux qui avaient disparu dans la Shoah ».

Centered around one family’s preserved personal letters, this is “an intimate, engaging examination of the plight of German Jewish refugees” (Kirkus Reviews).

Operation Market Garden – the Allied airborne invasion of German-occupied Holland in September 1944 – is one of the most famous and controversial Allied failures of the Second World War.

This monumental 7-volume encyclopedia, the result of years of work by the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, will describe the universe of camps and ghettos-some 20,000 in all-that the Nazis and their allies operated, from Norway to North Africa and from France to Russia.

A comprehensive pictorial study of Germany's armored reconnaissance operations across all WWII combat zones.

Second in the definitive reference series on the German Army in World War II, covering the organization, combat history, and commanders of each division.

Le présent ouvrage retrace l'histoire de la Zentrale Stelle de Ludwigsburg, une institution judiciaire qui fut chargée, dès 1958, de conduire dans l'Allemagne de l'ouest les enquêtes préliminaires des crimes nazis.

Since antiquity, European Jewish diaspora communities have used formal appeals to secular and religious authorities to secure favors or protection.

"J'ai longtemps cru que je les retrouverais, que le hasard de la vie nous ferait nous rencontrer et, bien sûr, nous reconnaître [.

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Sympathisant avant la guerre de 1939-1945 de l'Action française, Robert Daël est confronté au choc d'une défaite aussi rapide que brutale qui l'envoie jusqu'en Prusse orientale puis au Stalag XA à Schleswig, au nord de l'Allemagne.

The personal memoir of a Nazi soldier, from joining the German Army in 1941 through his time as a Panzer on the Eastern Front.

Comprehensive look into the dangerous world of glider warfare.

Fin 1964, les cendres de Jean Moulin sont transférées au Panthéon et André Malraux l'intronise comme héros éponyme de la Résistance.

Drawing on a superb collection of rare and unpublished photographs SS Foreign Divisions & Volunteers of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia 1942 - 1945 describes how the occupying Nazis recruited Lithuanian, Latvian, and Estonian conscripts into the Waffen-SS.

During the Holocaust, 99 percent of all Jewish killings were carried out by members of state organizations.

Cet ouvrage retrace les souvenirs de Herbert Geschwind liés aux évènements de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, de la découverte de la France et de la Riviera française après son exil d'Autriche en 1938.

Never previously seen reports and plans marked restricted and classified have been sourced from Britannia Royal Naval College's Archive.

What does it mean to be Jewish?

Gives the reader a firsthand look at war from inside a B-17 bomber in World War II.

L'auteur de cet ouvrage, ancien prisonnier de guerre en Allemagne, a frôlé le drame et le cocasse.