Far-right political ideologies and movements

In the late summer of 1944 the people and Government of Canada had every reason to view with satisfaction the progress of the war and their own part in it.

The theme of this book is the gradual emergence of the Jewish people from total political powerlessness - a development stretching over nearly 100 years and culminating in the consolidation in the State of Israel.

Although difficult to imagine, sixty years ago the Holocaust had practically no visibility in examinations of the Second World War.

Although difficult to imagine, sixty years ago the Holocaust had practically no visibility in examinations of the Second World War.

In Justice behind the Iron Curtain, Gabriel N.

In Justice behind the Iron Curtain, Gabriel N.

On the Defensive considers how our ethical responses to the Nazi camps have unintentionally repressed and denied the experiences of their victims.

On the Defensive considers how our ethical responses to the Nazi camps have unintentionally repressed and denied the experiences of their victims.

Femininity in the form of the donna-crisi, or “crisis-woman,” was a fixture of fascist propaganda in the early 1930s.

Held in Germany, the 1936 Olympic Games sparked international controversy.

Held in Germany, the 1936 Olympic Games sparked international controversy.

Liberated, licentious, or merely liberal, the sexual freedoms of Germany’s Weimar Republic have become legendary.

Liberated, licentious, or merely liberal, the sexual freedoms of Germany’s Weimar Republic have become legendary.

With Fields of Fire, Terry Copp challenges the conventional view that the Canadian contribution to the Battle of Normandy was a “failure” – that the allies won only through the use of brute force, and that the Canadian soldiers and commanding officers were essentially incompetent.

With Fields of Fire, Terry Copp challenges the conventional view that the Canadian contribution to the Battle of Normandy was a “failure” – that the allies won only through the use of brute force, and that the Canadian soldiers and commanding officers were essentially incompetent.

The Inspiring Story of a World War II Hero's Miraculous Survival at SeaJuly 30, 1945--The USS Indianapolis and its 1,196-man crew is making its way toward a small island in the South Pacific.

Trained as an assault brigade, the 56th landed on D-Day and successfully liberated Bayeux the following day.

This is the first book to treat bombing during WWII as a European phenomenon and not just the 'Blitz' on Britain and Germany.

'The universe began shrinking,' wrote Elie Wiesel of his Holocaust experiences in Hungary, 'first we were supposed to leave our towns and concentrate in the larger cities.

SOE and The Resistance describes the extraordinary contribution to the allied war effort made by the Special Operations Executive, from its formation in 1940 to the end of the war.

Nazisploitation!

While the coerced human experiments are notorious among all the atrocities under National Socialism, they have been marginalised by mainstream historians.

This book examines and analyses the relationship between the RAF, the Free French Movement and the French fighter pilots in WWII.

For many, the name of Adolf Eichmann is synonymous with the Nazi murder of six million Jews.

Some of the worst military disasters in U.

While the coerced human experiments are notorious among all the atrocities under National Socialism, they have been marginalised by mainstream historians.

Some of the worst military disasters in U.

Immortalised in Churchill's often quoted assertion that never before "e;was so much owed by so many to so few"e;, the top-down narrative of the Battle of Britain has been firmly established in British legend.

The Scandinavian [Nordic] countries of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland experienced the effects of the German invasion in April 1940 in very different ways.

Published for the very first time, the top secret report Some Weaknesses in German Strategy and Organisation 1933 - 1945 was prepared by Whitehall's highest intelligence body, the Joint Intelligence Committee, and presented to Britain's Chiefs of Staff in 1946 to 'set down certain aspects of the War whilst there are still sources available who were closely connected with the events described'.

Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence form the backbone of the Army's operating system.

This is the first book to treat bombing during WWII as a European phenomenon and not just the 'Blitz' on Britain and Germany.

Groups of young evacuees, standing on railway stations with gas masks and cardboard suitcases have become an iconic image of wartime Britain, but their histories have eclipsed those of women whose domestic lives were affected.

Nazisploitation!

The Normandy landings of 6 June 1944, across five sectors of the French coast - Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword - constituted the largest amphibious invasion in history.

Nazi Germany produced an unusual group of Christian martyrs--among them, the nun philosopher Edith Stein, the mystical philosopher Simone Weil, and the peasant conscientious objector Hans JSgerstatter--but perhaps none so complex as the Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Here is an original and up-to-date account of a key period of military history, one that not only links the two World Wars but also anticipates the more complex nature of conflict following the Cold War.

Groups of young evacuees, standing on railway stations with gas masks and cardboard suitcases have become an iconic image of wartime Britain, but their histories have eclipsed those of women whose domestic lives were affected.

The string of military defeats during 1942 marked the end of British hegemony in Southeast Asia, finally destroying the myth of British imperial invincibility.

This book offers a fresh approach to the debate on the RAF's bomber offensive by using modern strategic leadership theory as an analytical tool to examine the campaign.

Forgotten Blitzes analyses how states and civil society in Vichy France and Fascist Italy reacted to the experience of Allied bombing between 1940 and 1945.

Many major world events have occurred since the last key anniversary of the beginning of the Second World War, and these events have had a dramatic impact on the international stage: 9/11, the Iraq War, climate change and the world economic crisis.

A Battle for Neutral Europe describes and analyses the forgotten story of the British government's cultural propaganda organization, the British Council, in its campaign to win the hearts and minds of people in neutral Europe during the Second World War.

Drawing on documents in US and British archives, Douglas Ford explores why the belligerents in the Pacific war fought the way that they did.

Few historical events have resonated as much in modern British culture as the Second World War.

Crime, Regulation and Control during the Blitz looks at the social effect of bombing on urban centres like Liverpool, Coventry and London, critically examining how the wartime authorities struggled to regulate and control crime and offending during the Blitz.

Forgotten Blitzes analyses how states and civil society in Vichy France and Fascist Italy reacted to the experience of Allied bombing between 1940 and 1945.