During World War II the Japanese imprisoned more American civilians at Manila's Santo Tomas prison camp than anywhere else, along with British and other nationalities.
The realities of WWII underwater warfare come to life in this chronicle of a submarine sunk in the Philippines-and the remarkable sailors who survived.
Outwardly Nella's life was probably seen as ordinary; but behind this mask were a lively mind and a persistent pen - a pen that never gave up over almost three decades, reporting, describing, pondering, and disclosing.
The Black Devils March is an account of how the 1st (and only) Polish Armoured Division in the West under the leadership of General Stanislaw Maczek, arose out of the ashes of defeat and while attempting to avoid the internal politics of the Polish Government in Exile, was able to return to Europe in August 1944 on the side of the Western Allies.
"Der alte Traum vom Neuen Reich" ist eine umfassende Darstellung all jener utopischen Schriften – zur Illustration werden etwa 200 weithin unbekannte faschistische und proto-faschistische populäre Zukunftsromane seit dem Vormärz bis zum Vorabend des Dritten Reichs herangezogen –, in denen in Deutschland Leitbilder und Zukunftsvisionen eines neuen "Reichs", eines auf nationalen Gemeinsinn beruhenden Staatswesens auftauchten.
The first book about the Albatross Press, a Penguin precursor that entered into an uneasy relationship with the Nazi regime to keep Anglo-American literature alive under fascism The Albatross Press was, from its beginnings in 1932, a “strange bird”: a cultural outsider to the Third Reich but an economic insider.
James Crossland's work traces the history of the International Committee of the Red Cross' struggle to bring humanitarianism to the Second World War, by focusing on its tumultuous relationship with one of the conflict's key belligerents and masters of the blockade of the Third Reich, Great Britain.
Karen Shelby addresses the IJzertoren Memorial, which is dedicated to the Flemish dead of the Great War, and the role the monument has played in the discussions among the various political, social and cultural ideologies of the Flemish community.
The conquest of Serbia was only one of the goals of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the First World War; beyond this lay the desire to control much of South-East Europe.
Irish Officers in the British forces, 1922-45 looks at the reasons why young Irish people took the king's commission, including the family tradition, the school influence and the employment motive.
Als Dan Bar-On Mitte der achtziger Jahre als erster israelischer Wissenschaftler begann, die Nachwirkungen des Holocaust auf die Kinder von NS-Tätern zu erforschen, stieß er in Deutschland auf ein Vakuum.
Traditional histories of war have typically explored masculine narratives of military and political action, leaving private, domestic life relatively unstudied.
The astonishing #1 bestselling story of a boy who survived the war by hiding in the Polish forest Maxwell Smart was eleven years old when his entire family was killed before his eyes.
The new histories of love and romance offered within this edited collection illustrate the many changes, but also the surprising continuities in understandings of love, romance, affection, intimacy and sex from the First World War until the beginning of the Women's Liberation movement.
Barbed Wire University tells the extraordinary tale of Winston Churchill's internment of some of the most gifted Jewish refugee writers, professors, artists, and painters of their generation in a camp on the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea.
Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age explores the nexus of new media and memory practices, raising questions about how advances in digital technologies continue to influence the nature of Holocaust memorialization.
A Ceaseless Watch: Australia's Third Party Naval Defense, 1919-1942 illustrates how Australia confronted the need to base its post-World War I defense planning around the security provided by a major naval power: in the first instance, Britain, and later the United States.
En una investigación inteligente y apasionante, el historiador y ex organizador de Occupy Wall Street, Mark Bray, proporciona un estudio detallado de la historia completa del antifascismo desde sus orígenes hasta nuestros días: la primera historia transnacional del antifascismo de posguerra.
Spanish-Italian Relations and the Influence of the Major Powers examines complex relations between Spain and Italy, beginning in 1943 and continuing until 1957, contending that the relationship cannot be examined in isolation and must be understood in its broader context.
"Der vergessene Holocaust" - die Verbrechen der Deutschen im Osten Europas, die schon in den ersten Tagen ihres Eroberungsfeldzugs mit Massakern begannen und bald in systematische Massenerschießungen übergingen - wurden erst nach und nach in Nachkriegsdeutschland bekannt und dokumentiert.
Von 1945 bis 1957 lebten imbayerischen Wolfratshausen im Ortsteil Föhrenwald zeitweise mehr als 5000 Juden – mit Synagogen, einer jiddischen Zeitung und einer jüdischen Polizei.
