Far-right political ideologies and movements

The period of the 'long' Second World War (1936-1948) was marked by mass movements of diverse populations: 60 million people either fled or were forced from their homes.

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.

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.

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.

The period of the 'long' Second World War (1936-1948) was marked by mass movements of diverse populations: 60 million people either fled or were forced from their homes.

'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.

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.

Through exploring the battle of ideas set in motion in August 1914, First World War: Still No End In Sight provides a framework for understanding the changing focus of political conflict from ideology to culture.

In December 1941 Japan set out to seize South-East Asia and the western Pacific to complete the building of a self-sufficient empire.

Using government records, private letters and diaries and contemporary media sources, this book examines the key themes affecting the relationship between Britain and the Dominions during the Second World War, the Empire's last great conflict.

A thoughtful and provocative biography of the controversial Pope who led the Catholic Church during World War II

There is a claim that Hitler's rise to power was left unchallenged by the inaction of Pope Pius XII.

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

Holocaust Remembrance Between the National and the Transnational provides a key study of the remembrance of the Jewish Catastrophe and the Nazi-era past in the world arena.

A thoughtful and provocative biography of the controversial Pope who led the Catholic Church during World War II

There is a claim that Hitler's rise to power was left unchallenged by the inaction of Pope Pius XII.

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.

The Bloomsbury Companion to Holocaust Literature is a comprehensive reference resource including a wealth of critical material on a diverse range of topics within the literary study of Holocaust writing.

That the conflicts unleashed by Great War did not end in 1918 is well known.

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.

As Testament of Youth movingly showed, the First World War was to haunt Vera Brittain throughout her life.

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'.

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.

In December 1941 Japan set out to seize South-East Asia and the western Pacific to complete the building of a self-sufficient empire.

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

This volume provides an in-depth discussion of Saul Friedlander's landmark two-volume history of the Holocaust, Nazi Germany and the Jews.

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

When representing the Holocaust, the slightest hint of narrative embellishment strikes contemporary audiences as somehow a violation against those who suffered under the Nazis.

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

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.

Daily Life in Nazi-Occupied Europe provides readers with information about political and military affairs, economic life, religious life, intellectual life, and other aspects of daily life in those countries occupied by Nazi Germany during World War II.

This book is an "e;Honorable-Mention Awardee 2015"e; from Readers Favorite under Non-Fiction/Autobiography category.

In this exciting novel, an unsuspecting cardiologist becomes embroiled in a plot involving pharmaceuticals, international espionage, and the Neo-Nazi movement.

Nazi Germany provides a comprehensive survey of the National Socialist dictatorship, artfully balancing social and cultural history with a political and military history of the regime.

A timely collection on the role of public archaeology in an era of reactionary populismReactionary populism, seen in radical anti-intellectual movements around the globe, is changing how politics are practiced and how people view themselves and others.

Using George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four as a guide for interpreting the role of the American state in the twenty-first century - paying particular attention to how the government responded to the life and death issues of terrorism, COVID-19, and climate change - this book presents eye-opening and compelling documentary evidence that suggests Orwellian policies have already been implemented by Republicans and Democrats.

A fully illustrated study of how the US-led half of the Normandy invasion fleet was composed, commanded, and how it fought, from D-Day until the fall of Cherbourg.

'Richard Wilson's meticulously researched, powerfully argued and brilliantly written account of Shakespeare's 20th-century fascist followers is not just an important but a genuinely essential book.

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This is a love story, but it is also a story of World War II.

One of history s most defining moments comes to life in this jam-packed, 3-panel guide designed for students and history buffs alike!

One of history s most defining moments comes to life in this jam-packed, 3-panel guide designed for students and history buffs alike!

Returning to India from China on November 3, 1944, WWII C-46 #996 calls an ominous "e;Mayday.

This unique account of D-Dayhistory provides an unusual look into the US Army s preparation of a new typeof World War II warfare, that of airborne operations.

Nonna Bannister carried a secret almost to her Tennessee grave: the diaries she had kept as a young girl experiencing the horrors of the Holocaust.

This book is an important episode in the history of the development and modernisation of Palestine in the latter 19th and the first half of the 20th Centuries.