Even in the harsh conditions of total war, food is much more than a daily necessity, however scarce-it is social glue and an identity marker, a form of power and a weapon of war.
En las trincheras de Stalingrado es una pieza fundamental de la literatura bélica y uno de los primeros textos escritos en la antigua Unión Soviética que aborda con honestidad incontestable el que, probablemente, sea el episodio más importante de la Gran Guerra Patria: la batalla por Stalingrado.
Through moving interviews with five ordinary people who rescued Jews during the Holocaust, Kristen Monroe casts new light on a question at the heart of ethics: Why do people risk their lives for strangers and what drives such moral choice?
The last great naval battle of World War II, Leyte Gulf also is remembered as the biggest naval battle ever fought anywhere, and this book has been called the best account of it ever written.
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.
Plus de trois cent vingt noms figurent sur le mémorial érigé à Ramatuelle en hommage à des héros particulièrement discrets : des agents et honorables correspondants des Services spéciaux (les services de renseignement et de contre-espionnage qui ont fait le choix de la Résistance dès le 14 juin 1940).
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.
Fondé sur des faits réels, ce livre raconte le destin singulier de Bernard Lacroix, un jeune Français déporté en Allemagne en 1943 pour avoir tenté d'échapper au Service du Travail Obligatoire, et disparu en avril 1945 pendant les « marches de la mort » qui ont marqué la fin de la libération des camps.
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.
In the early years of the 21st century it appeared that the memory of the Holocaust was secure in Western Europe; that, in order to gain entry into the European Union, the countries of Eastern Europe would have to acknowledge their compatriots' complicity in genocide.
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 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.
