Far-right political ideologies and movements

Did President Roosevelt and other high-ranking U.

On 12 September 1944, a wolfpack of U.

Every veteran has a story to tell--often ones they have not told their own families.

Holocaust movies have become an important segment of world cinema and the de-facto Holocaust education for many.

In 1937, Japan blundered into a debilitating war with China, beginning with a minor incident near Peking (now Beijing) that quickly escalated.

For three years, Staff Sergeant Charles M.

In the Netherlands, a small group of biracial citizens has entered its eighth decade of lives that have been often puzzling and difficult, but which offer a unique insight into the history of race relations in America.

Focusing on the wartime activities of the U.

In the many historical accounts of D-Day, the Navy, Coast Guard and merchant marine, who transported troops to the invasion beaches and supported the attack, are often given scant attention.

Profiling World War II veterans who became famous Hollywood personalities, this book presents biographical chapters on celebrities like Audie Murphy, "e;America's number one soldier"e;; Clark Gable, the "e;King of Hollywood"e;; Jimmy Stewart, combat pilot; Gene Autry, the "e;singing cowboy,"e; who flew the infamous Hump; the amorous Mickey Rooney; Jackie Coogan, "e;the Kid"e; who crashed gliders in the jungle; James Arness, who acquired his Gunsmoke limp in the mountains of Italy; Tony Bennett, who discovered his voice during the Battle of the Bulge; and Lee Marvin, a Marine NCO who invaded 29 islands.

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A tough Jewish kid from the Bronx, Dan Altman enlisted in the Army when the U.

While the United States sought to remain neutral in the early years of World War II, some Americans did not.

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Takeo Yoshikawa (1912-1993) was an ensign in the Imperial Japanese Navy and a naval intelligence officer assigned the task of spying on the U.

Among the more than 260 American submarines that patrolled the Pacific during World War II, the USS Swordfish in 1941 was the first to sink a Japanese armed merchant ship, marking the beginning of the submarine's colorful history.

The factors leading to the defeat of the Axis Powers in World War II have been debated for decades.

It is important to remember not just what the Holocaust was but the individuals who were the subjects of its unrelenting Nazi brutalities.

Contrary to the common notion that news regarding the unfolding Holocaust was unavailable or unreliable, news from Europe was often communicated to North American Poles through the Polish-language press.

Rudolf Hoss has been called the greatest mass murderer in history.

By January 1945, Nazi Germany's defeat seemed inevitable yet much fighting remained.

A former Harvard professor of decision science and game theory draws on those disciplines in this review of controversial strategic and tactical decisions of World War II.

As the first botanical history of World War II, Plants Go to War examines military history from the perspective of plant science.

During the early months of World War II, Winston Churchill maneuvered to get the U.

Soon after the United States entered World War II, American ground and air forces were on their way to the European theater of operations.

When the Americans invaded the Japanese-controlled islands of Saipan and Tinian in 1944, civilians and combatants committed mass suicide to avoid being captured.

The award of a military decoration does not define valor--it only recognizes it.

After Operation Valkyrie--the failed July 20, 1944, plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler and seize control of the German government--both the Third Reich and Hitler came to a violent end.

Both before and during World War II, the Nazis restricted the rights of Jewish and communist doctors.

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It was not Robert Oppenheimer who built the bomb--it was engineers, chemists and young physicists in their twenties, many not yet having earned a degree.

Born into one of 19th century Europe's more powerful families, Archduchess Marie Valerie was the favorite daughter of Austria's Emperor Franz Joseph and Empress Elisabeth.

James Claude Beasley was a typical American teenager in the 1940s--a child of the Great Depression with an abiding commitment to family and country.

Hava (Eva) Bromberg and Ephraim Sokal were Jewish teenagers in Poland when the Nazis invaded in 1939.

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The Geheime Feldpolizei (Secret Field Police) was the political police force of the German Army during World War II.

The U.

In the five months after Pearl Harbor, the Imperial Japanese Navy won a string of victories in a campaign to consolidate control of Southeast Asia and the South Pacific.

After Hitler annexed Austria in 1938, the Gestapo began silencing critics.

Formed in July 1943 at Camp Chaffee, Arkansas, the 16th Armored Division was the last U.

In 1941, the U.

Charles Sweeny (1882-1963) was the heir to a fortune.

Winston Churchill, indispensable when liberty was in peril, died in 1965.

Originally designed as a cargo and paratroop transport during World War II, the Fairchild C-82 Packet is today mainly remembered for its starring role in the Hollywood film The Flight of the Phoenix (1965).

Following Pearl Harbor, Admiral Husband Kimmel, commander of the Pacific Fleet, and General Walter Short, commander of the U.

In late January 1944 a force of New Zealand soldiers and Allied specialists undertook a daring behind the lines reconnaissance of the Japanese-held Green Islands of Papua New Guinea.

Protesters called it an act of war when the U.

Through both World Wars, young African conscripts from Senegal, Algeria, Morocco, the Congo and elsewhere found themselves fighting for their colonial rulers, facing unknown enemies in unknown lands.

After Pearl Harbor, German, Italian and Japanese diplomats, along with their staffs and families, were relocated to two lavish but isolated resorts in Appalachia, where the State Department insisted they be treated as distinguished guests.

Trained as a photo reconnaissance unit, Marine Observation Squadron 251 ended up serving as a fighter squadron for the duration of World War II, shooting down 32 Japanese aircraft.