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Perilous Memories makes a groundbreaking and critical intervention into debates about war memory in the Asia-Pacific region.

Largely responsible for crushing Japanese airpower wherever the American fast carrier force sailed, the Grumman F6F Hellcat was considered the most important Allied aircraft in the Pacific during 1943 and 1944.

In the mid-1980s, a radio program with a compelling spiritual message was accidentally received by listeners in Vietnams remote northern highlands.

Analyses why the great battles were won and lost, and how the men that fought went on to change the world.

A World War II merchant seaman, John Bunker takes a thorough look at the American merchant marines' significant contributions to the war effort.

The B-24 Liberator was built in greater numbers than any other US WW2 aircraft, and served in every theater of WW2, as heavy bomber, anti-submarine aircraft, reconnaissance and transport.

First published in 1907 and this edition in 1971 with a preface by C.

Scientific breakthroughs have led us to a point where soon we will be able to make specific choices about the genetic makeup of our offspring.

This book, one of the first ever written on its subject, focuses on Russian America and American Alaska and their impact on the native population.

A detailed, illustrated exploration of the land, sea and air units that defended Malta, and the repeated Axis attempts to bring the crucial Allied island fortress to its knees.

A new evaluation of one of the most significant Holocaust poets, Nelly Sachs (1891-1970), offering the first sustained critical analysis of Sachs's largely unanalyzed pre-war poetry and prose.

Providing an excellent overview of the latest thinking in Maimonides studies, this book uses a novel philosophical approach to examine whether Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed contains a naturalistic doctrine of salvation after death.

Extraordinary story of a Dutch volunteer in the Waffen-SS.

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In May of 1944, American airman Gerald E.

This new collection of scholarly, readable, and up-to-date essays covers the most significant naval blockades of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

This book is an attempt to explain how, in the face of increasing religious authoritarianism in medieval Islamic civilization, some Muslim thinkers continued to pursue essentially humanistic, rational, and scientific discourses in the quest for knowledge, meaning, and values.

Muslims beyond the Arab World explores the vibrant tradition of writing African languages using the modified Arabic script ('Ajami) alongside the rise of the Muridiyya Sufi order in Senegal.

This book explores the contours of civic identity in the town of Vichy, France.

Most Americans believe that the Second World War ended because the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan forced it to surrender.

The question of identity is one of present-day Israel s cardinal and most pressing issues.

This book, first published in 1986, examines the American economic aid that was a vital factor in enabling Britain's success in the Second World War.

The Yiddish Theater Stage as a Temporary Home takes us through the fascinating life and career of the most important comic duo in Yiddish Theater, Shimen Dzigan and Isroel Shumacher.

This volume puts Barth and liberation theologies in critical and constructive conversation.

A fascinating account of the last major Allied operation in the South-West Pacific, and the largest Australian military operation of World War II.

Argues that fundamentalism in religion and law threatens democratic values, and discusses Obama''s resistance to originalism.

Taking stock of Yiddish literature in 1939, critic Shmuel Niger highlighted the increasing number and importance of women writers.

This book follows Chagall's life through his art and his understanding of the role of the artist as a political being.

Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem are regarded as two of the most influential Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century.

As we approach the end of the 'era of the witness', given the passing on of the generation of Holocaust survivors, Claude Lanzmann's archive of 220 hours of footage excluded from his ground-breaking documentary Shoah (1985) offers a remarkable opportunity to encounter previously unseen interviews with survivors and other witnesses, recorded in the late 1970s.

Traces Abdallah Azzam''s path from a West Bank village to the battlefields of Afghanistan and explains why jihadism went global.

Freud's collection of antiquities-his "e;old and dirty gods"e;-stood as silent witnesses to the early analysts' paradoxical fascination and hostility toward religion.

For most of his sixty-year career, the Reverend Carl McIntire was at the center of controversy.

Christian theology has been complicit in justifying the war on women, but it also has resources to help finally declare peace in the war on women.

Among the more than 260 American submarines that patrolled the Pacific during World War II, the USS Swordfish in 1941 was the first to sink a Japanese armed merchant ship, marking the beginning of the submarine's colorful history.

Among the fiercest opponents of the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II was journalist James "e;Jimmie"e; Matsumoto Omura.

This poignant story of survival, friendship, and love begins with the the author's childhood during the Holocaust in Hungary.

A thirteenth-century text purporting to represent a debate between a Jew and a Christian begins with the latter's exposition of the virgin birth, something the Jew finds incomprehensible at the most basic level, for reasons other than theological: "e;Speak to me in French and explain your words!

Neueste Forschung zur europäischen Dimension der nationalsozialistischen "Euthanasie"-Verbrechen.

The main tide of international relations scholarship on the first years after World War II sweeps toward Cold War accounts.

Using Kenneth Burke's concept of dramatism as a way of exploring multiple motivations in symbolic expression, Tibet on Fire examines the Tibetan self-immolation movement of 2011-2015.

'History at its scintillating best .

The 1893 Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, presented the Latter-day Saints with their first opportunity to exhibit the best of Mormonism for a national and an international audience after the abolishment of polygamy in 1890.

This book analyzes how Second World War heritage is being reframed in the memorial museums of the post-socialist, post-conflict states of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia.

The September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon left us stunned, angry, and uncomprehending.

Pilgrimage inspired and shaped the distinct experiences of commoners and nobles, men and women, clergy and laity for over a thousand years.

This volume presents insights from five years of intensive Holocaust, genocide, and mass atrocity education at Queensborough Community College (QCC) of the City University of New York (CUNY), USA, to offer four approaches-Arts-Based, Textual, Outcomes-Based, and Social Justice-to designing innovative, integrative, and differentiated pedagogies for today's college students.

The nineteenth-century history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Max Perry Mueller argues, illuminates the role that religion played in forming the notion of three "e;original"e; American racesred, black, and whitefor Mormons and others in the early American Republic.

Among the more improbable events of the Asia-Pacific Theater in World War II was the creation in Singapore of a corps of female Indian combat soldiers, the Rani of Jhansi Regiment (RJR).