Fully illustrated, this absorbing study assesses the Commonwealth and Italian infantrymen pitted against one another during the First and Second battles of El Alamein in 1942.
'Adolf Island' offers new forensic, archaeological and spatial perspectives on the Nazi forced and slave labour programme that was initiated on the Channel Island of Alderney during its occupation in the Second World War.
Close to a time when there will be no more survivors to speak about their suffering, this innovative study takes much-needed stock of the past, present and future of Holocaust testimony.
Anatomía de una mentira recorre las voces y los grupos que, en los últimos años, han planteado fuertes polémicas sobre lo sucedido en la Argentina de los años setenta.
A Telegraph and Evening Standard Book of the YearFrom the acclaimed writer and critic Geoff Dyer, an extremely funny scene-by-scene analysis of Where Eagles Dare - published as the film reaches its 50th anniversaryA thrilling Alpine adventure starring a magnificent, bleary-eyed Richard Burton and a coolly anachronistic Clint Eastwood, Where Eagles Dare is the apex of 1960s war movies, by turns enjoyable and preposterous.
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.
The Struggle for the Pacific (1937) examines the rivalries and postures as various powers - European, the US, Japan and China - attempted to militarily, politically and economically dominate the Asia Pacific sphere.
Ein Meilenstein der Widerstandsliteratur – erstmals auf DeutschMarek Edelman war einer der bekanntesten Untergrundaktivisten im Warschauer Ghetto, sein Bericht Das Ghetto kämpft über den Aufstand im April 1943 ist ein Klassiker der Widerstandsliteratur.
This fully illustrated book assesses the trial of strength between US Navy PT boats and Japanese destroyers operating in the Solomon Islands during 1942 43.
"e;Not only a just appraisal of the campaigns waged by Marines in World War II; it is a documentation of the Marine struggle to prove the feasibility of amphibious warfare.
In dieser ebenso fundierten wie erschütternden Darstellung gelingt es Laurence Rees, dem Leser die unfaßbaren Geschehnisse des Holocaust nachvollziehbar vor Augen zu führen – mit einem beunruhigenden Fazit: Der Holocaust ist kein düsterer Alptraum, kein singulärer Exzeß, sondern Ergebnis der menschlichen Veranlagung.
The remarkable, untold story of one Holocaust survivor's resilience against all odds, discovered through a chance encounter with a collection of her wartime poetry.
To discover how war can affect the status of women in industrial countries, Leila Rupp examines mobilization propaganda directed at women in Nazi Germany and the United States.
