Far-right political ideologies and movements

A medical officer in the 34th "e;Red Bull"e; Infantry Division on the front lines of World War II, Lt.

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).

For three years, Staff Sergeant Charles M.

THE LAST SURVIVOR is the incredible story of a man who survived three concentration camps and a major maritime disaster at the end of WW II.

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

In The Hidden Places of WWII, the author takes readers to overlooked places where WWII history was made.

A brutal siege.

Military historian Victor Brooks argues that the year 1943 marked a significant shift in the World War II balance of power from the Axis to Allied forces.

By the time the war clouds of Europe and Asia spilled onto the shores of the United States, the allied military found itself outmanned, outgunned and out flown.

George S.

Never to Return is the harrowing tale of the torpedoing and sinking of a Coast Guard ship and the loss of 171 Coast Guardsmen off the coast of Iceland during WWII.

The First Counterspyis the pulse-quickening and traumatic story of spy, counterspy, and an American family unwittingly caught in its web.

From an historian and columnist in Leatherneck and Armor magazines, this is the exciting, personal account of a Marine fighter squadron in the South Pacific during the critical days of 1943 when the tide turned against the Japanese.

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor changed the lives of almost every American, and began the process of putting 17 million of them in uniform to fight in World War II.

Death in war matters.

In Keys to Bonhoeffer's Haus, Laura M.

What happens if we read nineteenth-century and Victorian texts not for the autonomous liberal subject, but for singularity-for what is partial, contingent, and in relation, rather than what is merely "e;alone"e;?

The Holocaust is usually understood as a European story.

Death in war matters.

Men in reserve focuses on working class civilian men who, as a result of working in reserved occupations, were exempt from enlistment in the armed forces.

It has been more than a century since the American conquest and subsequent annexation of the Philippines.

In 1941 photographer Croswell Bowen joined American Field Service volunteer ambulance drivers and served alongside the British Eighth Army during World War II.

This seminal work on modern terrorism is the one book to read in order to truly understand the reasons why radical Muslims such as Osama bin Laden and his followers have declared war on America and the West.

In New York City in 1939, neither eighteen-year-old Jack "e;Jake"e; Jacobson nor his comrade Murray "e;Duke"e; Davison had any intention of joining the military.

Inspired by the old African proverb: When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground, high-school student Morgan Reilly sought to preserve as many Maine libraries as he could by interviewing men and women from Maine who served in World War II and preserving their stories.

Very Special Ships is the first full-length book about the Abdiel-class fast minelayers, which were considered the fastest and most versatile to serve in the Royal Navy during World War II.

From Axis Victories to the Turn of the Tide is a history of the critical campaigns of WorldWar II that highlights the "e;visible"e; turning point battles of the war in 1942 and 1943.

Despite being blinded as a child, Jacques Lusseyran went on to help form a key unit of the French Resistance - and survive the Nazis' Buchenwald concentration camp.

The history of the Ottoman Empire spanned more than seven centuries.

Say "e;Hitler"e; and people would automatically think of evil and Jews.

The book that helped inspire Anthony Doerrs All the Light We Cannot See An updated edition of this classic World War II memoir, chosen as one of the 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Twentieth Century, with a new photo insert and restored passages from the original French edition When Jacques Lusseyran was an eight-year-old Parisian schoolboy, he was blinded in an accident.

For the men of the Army Air Corps in early World War II, the chance of surviving the obligatory twenty-five missions without death, injury, or imprisonment was one in three.

In August 1942, Hitler directed all German state institutions to assist Heinrich Himmler, the chief of the SS and the German police, in eradicating armed resistance in the newly occupied territories of Eastern Europe and Russia.

The early morning hours of July 6, 1943, found the USS Helena off the Solomon Islands in what would later be known as the Battle of Kula Gulf.

"e;This is a great work on a small slice of operations on the Eastern Front during the first two years of the [second world] war.

This major history documents the German invasion of Norway, focusing on the events at sea.

This illustrated military history reveals the untold story of WWII snipers, from training and firearms to combat and field operations.

Syrian immigrant Moussa Abadi was only 33, and his future wife, Odette Rosenstock, 28, when they found themselves trapped in Nazi-occupied France.

This volume completes the reissue of R.

The USS Bullhead was the last American naval vessel lost in World War II.

The Pacific War changed abruptly in November 1943 when Admiral Chester Nimitz unleashed a relentless 18-month, 4,000-mile offensive across the Central Pacific, spearheaded by fast carrier task forces and U.

In 1940, the U.

"e;Author James Mills presents an amazing, detailed history review of the German surface-to-air guided missile technology development.

When first published in 1995, this book was hailed as an absolutely indispensable contribution to the history of the Pacific War.

This book follows the journey of a Jew who fled Nazi Germany but could not exorcise its evils from his theological and literary imagination.

A detailed history and analysis of the most controversial amphibious operation in the Pacific during WWII: the Battle for Peleliu.

This sixtieth-anniversary edition of the 1943 classic returns to print the exciting story of a U.

Hailed as one of the finest examples of aviation research, this comprehensive 1984 study presents a detailed and scrupulously accurate operational history of carrier-based air warfare.