Far-right political ideologies and movements

Marion Cave Rosselli is remembered as the 'perfect companion' of the Italian Antifascist leader Carlo Rosselli, assassinated in Paris in June 1937.

Was World War II really the `Good War'?

In the 1930s, the British public's emotional response to the atrocities of the Spanish Civil War, including the bombing of Guernica, shaped the mass-politics of the age.

This is the story of a grandmother, and what happened to her and to Eastern Europe in World War II.

Born into a Jewish family in Lvov, Poland in the early-1930s, Nelly Ben-Or was to experience, at a very young age, the trauma of the Holocaust.

Sigmund Freud spent the final year of his life at 20 Maresfield Gardens, London, surrounded by all his possessions, in exile from the Nazis.

The Americanist community played a vital role in the Cold War, as well as in large part directing the cultural consumption of Soviet society and shaping perceptions of the US.

*Highly Commended by the British Records Association for the 2019 Janette Harley Prize*In September 1943, at the height of World War II, the Aegean island of Leros became the site of the most pivotal battle of the Dodecanese campaign as the British tried, in vain, to retain control of the island.

The Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) was created in 1917, re-formed in 1938 and maintained after 1945.

The Western world's responses to genocide have been slow, unwieldly and sometimes unfit for purpose.

After the Second World War, with much of Europe in ruins, the victorious Winston Churchill swore to build a peace across Europe that would last a generation.

The early twenty-first century has been defined by a rise in Islamist radicalisation and a concurrent rise in far right extremism.

In the mountains and jungles of occupied Burma during World War II, British special forces launched a series of secret operations, assisted by parts of the Burmese population.

A few years before he died James MacGibbon confessed to his close family that he had spied for the Soviet Union during World War II.

On a winter's day in 1943, 21-year-old Latvian Mischka Danos chanced on a terrible sight - a pit filled with the bodies of Jews killed by the occupying Germans.

Piecing together a fractured European continent after World War I, the Versailles Peace Treaty stipulated the long term occupation of the Rhineland by Allied troops.

During World War II three distinct forces opposed the Allies - Germany, Italy, and Japan.

John Lodwick (1916-1959) was one of the great novelists of the early twentieth century.

A new look for Austerity.

In the network of Nazi camps across wartime Europe, prisoner of war institutions were often located next to the slave camps for Jews and Slavs; so that British PoWs across occupied Europe, over 200,000 men, were witnesses to the holocaust.

His promising education was aborted; his close-knit family splintered.

In this classic account, Bernard Wasserstein draws on the files of the Shanghai Police as well as the intelligence archives of the many countries involved, to provide the definitive story of Shanghai's secret war.

In 1939 a girl was born in the Aspromonte mountains of Calabria, a beautiful land steeped in history and suffused with tradition but weighed down by poverty and the 'Ndrangheta - Calabria's Mafia.

'When the Nazi power was broken, I asked myself what was the best advice I could give to my fellow citizens here in this island and across the channel in our ravaged continent.

The history of the Russian fascist movement in Harbin, Manchuria during the 1930s has become increasingly relevant to our understanding of modern Russia.

Between 1929 and 1942, Hungary's motion picture industry experienced meteoric growth.

Dmitry Likhachev (1906-1999) was one of the most prominent Russian intellectuals of the twentieth century.

It is difficult for Italians to have much faith in the future.

The resurgence of the far right across Europe and the emergence of the "e;alt-right"e; in the US have put the question of fascism urgently back on the agenda.

Drawing on a Gramscian theoretical perspective and developing a systematic comparative approach, The Civic Foundations of Fascism in Europe challenges the received Tocquevillian consensus on authoritarianism by arguing that fascist regimes, just like mass democracies, depended on well-organised, rather than weak and atomised, civil societies.

With the Hindu nationalist BJP now replacing the Congress as the only national political force, the communalization of the Indian polity has qualitatively advanced since the earlier edition of this book in 1997.

'An unlikely hero has a master storyteller to tell his tale.

'These two sisters might be some of our final living first-hand witnesses to the horrors of the Holocaust.

A multifaceted look at historian Raul Hilberg, tracing the evolution of Holocaust research from a marginal subdiscipline into a vital intellectual project.

*Longlisted for the Desmond Elliot Prize * Winner of the Bath Novel Award * Shortlisted for the Author's Club Best First Novel Award *'What a writer.

Meet the unit that posed as Nazi stormtroopers in the most daring mission ever undertaken SAS Ghost Patrol is the explosive true story of the day in 1942 when the SAS donned Nazi uniforms to perpetrate the most audacious and daring mission of the war.

A memoir of brutality, heroism and personal discovery from Europe's dark heart, revealing one of the most extraordinary untold stories of the Second World WarIn the spring of 1945, at Rechnitz on the Austrian-Hungarian border, not far from the front lines of the advancing Red Army, Countess Margit Batthyany gave a party in her mansion.

It was Tuesday, 17 October 1939.

Right-wing violence is undergoing a revival on both sides of the Atlantic.

Harrowing account of U.

First published in 1951, this is both a personal narrative and forensic analysis of the methods employed by Stalin and the G.

Using documents from German sources.

Toward Soviet America is a book written by Communist Party, USA Chairman William Z.

This is the story of a people, its origin, its history, its struggle for survival and its tragic end-the life-and-death story of Polish and other Eastern European Jewries.

The heart-breaking story of Joseph Tenenbaum who visited Poland in 1945 after the end of the Second World War in search of his Jewish relatives.

Joseph Tenenbaum sketches a portrait of the infamous "e;Commandant of Auschwitz"e;, Rudolf Hoess.

OBJECTIVE: EXTERMINATION"e;There were in reality three Auschwitz camps.

The shocking and absorbing account of life in the hell of the Soviet Gulag system is told in all his horrific details here by Elinor Lipper.

Born 1902 in Warsaw and a law student in Warsaw and Paris, author Jerzy Gliksman became active in the Bund's youth organization and in its political party in 1917, eventually becoming a member of the Bund's Central Committee.

Includes, as an Appendix, a full text of the Indictment, translated from the Hebrew.