Political ideologies and movements

Air warfare was a decisive component of World War II, especially in western Europe and over Japan, where Allied bombers damaged 66 of the country's largest cities.

Though few realize it, the Netherlands East Indies were the object of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941.

The Geheime Feldpolizei (Secret Field Police) was the political police force of the German Army during World War II.

James Claude Beasley was a typical American teenager in the 1940s--a child of the Great Depression with an abiding commitment to family and country.

Among the many German immigrants to the United States over the years, one group is unusual: former prisoners of war who had spent between one and three years on American soil and who returned voluntarily as immigrants after the war.

Winston Churchill, indispensable when liberty was in peril, died in 1965.

Profiling World War II veterans who became famous Hollywood personalities, this book presents biographical chapters on celebrities like Audie Murphy, "e;America's number one soldier"e;; Clark Gable, the "e;King of Hollywood"e;; Jimmy Stewart, combat pilot; Gene Autry, the "e;singing cowboy,"e; who flew the infamous Hump; the amorous Mickey Rooney; Jackie Coogan, "e;the Kid"e; who crashed gliders in the jungle; James Arness, who acquired his Gunsmoke limp in the mountains of Italy; Tony Bennett, who discovered his voice during the Battle of the Bulge; and Lee Marvin, a Marine NCO who invaded 29 islands.

Assertive, tough, and idealistic, the Weatherwomen--members of the Weather Underground Organization (WUO) from the late 1960s--were determined to stamp out sexism and social injustice.

From the author of The Politics of Our TimeWhats happening in global politics, and is there a thread that ties it all together?

Takeo Yoshikawa (1912-1993) was an ensign in the Imperial Japanese Navy and a naval intelligence officer assigned the task of spying on the U.

By January 1945, Nazi Germany's defeat seemed inevitable yet much fighting remained.

In addition to concentration camps, World War II Germany was also home to 54 prisoner-of-war camps, the largest of which was Stalag IVB.

In the opening days of World War II, a joint U.

World War II began for the United States with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941, followed by the invasion of the Philippine Islands the next day.

The story of Hitler's Wehrmachtsgefolge (armed forces auxiliaries) is less well known than that of Germany's other armed forces in World War II, such as the panzer divisions, the Luftwaffe and the Kriegsmarine.

In the five months after Pearl Harbor, the Imperial Japanese Navy won a string of victories in a campaign to consolidate control of Southeast Asia and the South Pacific.

Seventy years after the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan is still dealing with the effects of the bombings on the national psyche.

Creating a guerrilla movement to fight the Japanese occupation of the Philippines (1942-1945) presented Colonel Wendell Fertig with some formidable challenges.

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In the 1930s, Rabbi Roland Gittelsohn was a distinguished scholar and vocal pacifist.

The Allies' triumphant march into Paris in 1944 was met with cheering crowds of liberated Parisians.

In the many historical accounts of D-Day, the Navy, Coast Guard and merchant marine, who transported troops to the invasion beaches and supported the attack, are often given scant attention.

After Hitler annexed Austria in 1938, the Gestapo began silencing critics.

World War II could not have been won without the U.

How did the business of professional baseball fare during World War II?

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More than 150,000 American Jews served in the air war during World War II.

On July 3, 1940, 5,000 exhausted and hungry French officers reached a high plateau of the Moravian Mountain range in Austria.

During the early months of World War II, Winston Churchill maneuvered to get the U.

In Europe, World War II was four months old by Christmas 1939.

It was not Robert Oppenheimer who built the bomb--it was engineers, chemists and young physicists in their twenties, many not yet having earned a degree.

When reality becomes fantastic, what literary effects will render it credible or comprehensible?

Hava (Eva) Bromberg and Ephraim Sokal were Jewish teenagers in Poland when the Nazis invaded in 1939.

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.

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a wave of political violence swept across the globe, causing widespread alarm.

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.

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An intimate portrait of the daily realities of life in contemporary JerusalemThere is no escaping the Jerusalem of the religious imagination.

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.

This handbook provides a methodical, comprehensive, and unifying overview of the vibrant yet disparate scholarship on populism and foreign policy.

This book investigates M.

The Orthodox Church has been characterized by some as "e;the best-kept secret in North America.

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.

This book explores the phenomenon of conversion to Shi'a Islam in Italy.