Far-right political ideologies and movements

In 1941, as Nazi Germany began its disastrous campaign against the Soviet Union, Hitlers other campaign, to exterminate European Jewry, was also commencing in earnest.

Published to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day, an unforgettable never-before-told first-person account of World War II: the true story of an American paratrooper who survived D-Day, was captured and imprisoned in a Nazi work camp, and made a daring escape to freedom.

On September 1, 1910, France became the last great naval power to lay down a dreadnought battleship, the Courbet.

A study of the Red Army's penultimate offensive operation in the war in Europe.

Behind the celebrated code-breaking at Bletchley Park lies another secretThe men and women of the Y (for Wireless) Service were sent out across the world to run listening stations from Gibraltar to Cairo, intercepting the German militarys encrypted messages for decoding back at the now-famous Bletchley Park mansion.

'We were quickly learning to live with war.

In this highly important book, Javier Rodrigo examines the role of Fascist Italy in the Spanish Civil War from 1936 to 1939.

Army Girls is the intimate story of the final few women who served in World War II and are still alive to tell their tale.

Allied success in invading Fortress Europe (the area of Continental Europe occupied by Nazi Germany) depended on getting armor onto the beaches as fast as possible.

Narrative Reflections presents a series of poignant personal reflections by mental health professionals, triggered by reading interviews of Holocaust survivors and their families.

A fascinating account of an often overlooked naval action of World War II, and one of the bloodiest chapters in the history of the Royal Navy.

Winston Churchill, Britain's iconic war time Prime Minister, is inextricably linked with the victorious British Army of 1939 to 1945.

A book by the specialist for the specialist, this is a must-have history of the most powerful German tank destroyer of World War II the Ferdinand/Elefant.

This book, first published in 1985, is a scholarly examination of the of the British wartime evacuation of 4 million people, mostly children, from the cities to the countryside - and how it affected social life during the war years.

This fascinating new collection of essays on Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) explores the 'non-military' aspects of British special operations in the Second World War.

Close to the Enemy is a seven-part television series, mostly set in a bomb-damaged London hotel in the aftermath of the Second World War.

The German attack on merchant shipping in the Second World War, known as the Battle of the Atlantic, was countered partly by code-breaking intelligence known as Ultra.

In the chaos of the Second World War, Canada faced cruel choices, both on the battlefield and in the world of politics.

In the hell that was World War II, the Eastern Front was its heart of fire and ice.

The best way for today's sailors to learn about a battle is from those who fought it.

Conversion and Catastrophe in German-Jewish Emigre Autobiography is a collective biography of four German-Jewish converts to Christianity, recounting their spiritual and confessional journeys against the backdrop of the Holocaust and its aftermath.

This book presents an innovative theoretical and empirical approach to the present attributions of meaning to the past.

The bestselling first authoritative account of the first colossal World War II battle between Germany and the USSRbased on previously unavailable documents, this is the battle that decided the war, and the one that Stalin tried to cover up.

Escaping Hitler is the personal story of Eva Wyman and her family's escape from Nazi Germany to Chile in the sociohistorical context of 1930s and 1940s, a time when the Chilean Nazi party had an active presence in the country's major institutions.

This is the first systematic pan-European study of the hundreds of thousands of non-Germans who fought -- either voluntarily or under different kinds of pressures -- for the Waffen-SS (or auxiliary police formations operating in the occupied East).

Paul Corthorn presents an illuminating, in-depth study of the British Left's response to the rise of international fascism in the 1930s.

Examines the "e;home front"e; war effort from an overall imperial perspective, assessing the contribution of individual imperial territories.

The end of World War II saw an emergence of Holocaust dissention that began in Europe and has since developed into an international movement with adherents in almost every country in the world.

Minute-by-minute chronicle of the U.

During the last few decades there has been a growing recognition of the great role that remembering and collective memory play in forming the historical awareness.

An illustrated exploration of the dramatic aerial combats between the US Navy's long-range bomber and Japanese flying boats in the Pacific War.

Since the end of World War II, historians and psychologists have investigated the factors that motivated Germans to become Nazis before and during the war.

Zimmerman examines the attitude and behavior of the Polish Underground towards the Jews during the Holocaust.

A fascinating study of one of the often overlooked World War II campaigns as British/Commonwealth, Indigenous and Italian forces battled for control of the Horn of Africa.

Passionate, political and principled, the UltraS are the hardcoresubculture of football supporters found in the stadiums of Italy.

The Holocaust is the most researched and written about genocide in history.

This book, first published in 1983, brings together leading world experts on film and radio propaganda in a study which deals with each of the major powers as well as several under occupation.

Karl Haushofer, a Bavarian general and professor, is widely recognized as the "e;father of geopolitics.

In Spring 1945 one final hurdle faced the American and British Armies under Ike's supreme command - the Rhine.

The revisionist work about Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher, who won his battles at sea but lost the war of public opinion.

Finland's Holocaust considers antisemitism and the figure of the Holocaust in today's Finland.

Fought with obsolete and discarded equipment by an army mostly made up of untrained Filipinos, the Battle of Bataan has become one of the "e;forgotten"e; battles of World War II.

In the summer of 1943, the United Nations began Operation HUSKY, the invasion of Sicily.

This is an enthralling personal account of the secret Nazi project, Operation Bernhard, devised to destabilize the British and, later, American economies by creating and putting into circulation millions of counterfeit banknotes.

Disentangling a controversial history of turmoil and progress, this Handbook provides essential guidance through the complex past of a region that was previously known as the Balkans but is now better known as Southeastern Europe.

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On 4 June 1942, three squadrons of U.

Although nearly 90% of the population of Great Britain remained civilians throughout the war, or for a large part of it, their story has so far largely gone untold.