Social groups: religious groups and communities

The period 1928-1942 saw some of the greatest political and social upheavals in modern British history.

Elena Grosskopf was born in June 1924 and grew up in Merano on the Austrian-Italian border.

Monday, June 5, had long been planned for launching D-day, the start of the campaign to liberate Nazi-held Western Europe.

This early work by Richard Hillary was originally published in 1942 and we are now republishing it.

This landmark book probes Muslims' attitudes toward Jews and Judaism as a special case of their view of other religious minorities in predominantly Muslim societies.

The World Turns to War weaves stories of combat veterans into an event-by-event history of the war.

Found in Common Worship: Times and Seasons, The Way of the Cross is a series of scripture-based devotions for personal or group use in Lent and Holy Week.

At its peak in World War II, the United States Army contained over 700 engineer battalions, along with numerous independent brigades and regiments.

Assessing the impact of fin-de-siecle Jewish culture on subsequent developments in literature and culture, this book is the first to consider the historical trajectory of Austrian-Jewish writing across the 20th century.

No nation is free from the charge that it has a less-than-complete view of the past.

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

In der Endphase des Zweiten Weltkrieges entstand die "Oder-Neiße-Linie", die heutige deutsch-polnische Grenze.

These studies explore the history of the Jewish minority of Ashkenaz (northern France and the German Empire) during the High Middle Ages.

Across the Muslim world, religion plays an increasingly prominent role in both the private and public lives of over a billion people.

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

This book provides a conceptually and empirically rich introduction to religious indifference on the basis of original anthropological, historical and sociological research.

The US armed forces pioneered amphibious warfare in the Pacific and by the time of the D-day landings they had perfected the special equipment and tactics necessary for this extraordinarily difficult and risky form of warfare.

This revised edition of Mike Chappell's original Men-at-Arms 138 represents nearly 20 years' new research.

Hawaii, 7th December 1941, shortly before 8 in the morning: Japanese torpedo bombers launch a surprise attack on the US Pacific fleet anchored in Pearl Harbor.

In a period of ongoing debate about faith, identity, migration and culture, this timely study explores the often politicised nature of constructions of one of Britain's longest standing minority communities.

Richard Overy zeichnet ein umfassendes, neues Bild des Zweiten Weltkriegs – als das letzte Aufbäumen des Imperialismus.

"e;I remember reading We Die Alone in 1970 and I could never forget it.

This book provides an intriguing and realistic account of the struggle for the possession of Malta during World War II.

Abu'l-Barakat is often considered one of the most comprehensive philosophers of the Arabic-Jewish milieu in the medieval age.

In the long literary history of the Middle East, the notion of 'the beloved' has been a central trope in both the poetry and prose of the region.

In this book, aviation expert Chris Thomas - inspired to research Typhoons by his own father, who flew numerous raids in a Typhoon during World War 2 - extols the great importance of the Typhoon wings in the ultimate Allied victory in Europe.

Israel's political process is too often framed in terms of a dichotomy between Jewish and Arab/Palestinian citizens of the state, a framing which perpetuates political inequality and consequent injustices.

Civilians into soldiers is an examination of body cultures in the British Army during the Second World War.

Pope Francis confuses many observers because his papacy does not fit neatly into any pre-established classificatory schemes.

Holocaust Images and Picturing Catastrophe explores the phenomenon of Holocaust transfer, analysing the widespread practice of using the Holocaust and its imagery for the representation and recording of other historical events in various media sites.

Christianity faces a dilemma with regard to the status of women.

World War II produced a fundamental shift in modern racial discourse.

An exploration of writings about the Ottoman Empire and other Islamic countries by women of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

If humans are not capable of immortality, then eschatological doctrines of heaven and hell make little sense.

Compared to Casablanca by the Washington Post, The Freedom Line is a page-turning story of a group of resistance workers who secreted downed Allied fighter pilots through France and into safety in Spain during World War II—perfect for fans of Apple TV's Masters of the Air.

Dieser Sammelband nähert sich dem Thema zunächst aus einer historischen Perspektive an und geht der Frage nach der Entwicklung der Religionsgemeinschaften, insbesondere nach der Gründung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und der seither verfassungsrechtlich verbrieften Rechte und Privilegien von Religionsgemeinschaften und ihr weitreichenden Kooperationen mit dem säkularen Staat.

In the human quest for orientation vis-a-vis personal life and comprehensive reality the worldviews of religionists and humanists offer different answers, and science also plays a crucial role.

This book is the first to provide a cognitive analysis of the function of biological/medical metaphors in National Socialist racist ideology and their background in historical traditions of Western political theory.

This book explores Louis I.

A comprehensive and dramatic re-telling of the Guadalcanal and Solomons naval campaign the daring Allied offensive to protect Australia and the South Pacific from Japanese invasion.

The author, Igor’ Sdvizhkov, takes a close look at the attempt by the Briansk Front’s Operational Group Chibisov to collapse the northern shoulder of the German drive to the Caucasus - north-west of Voronezh - in July 1942.

Al Qaeda is the most dangerous terrorist movement in history.

Whether looking at divided cities or working with populations on the margins of society, a growing number of engaged academics have reached out to communities around the world to address the practical problems of living with difference.

The Ethics of Survival in Contemporary Literature and Culture delves into the complex problems involved in all attempts to survive.

¿Por qué y cómo surgió en la historia moderna la voluntad de perseguir a los responsables del inicio de un conflicto bélico y de las atrocidades subsiguientes?

Artist Raphael Soyer (1899-1987), whose Russian Jewish family settled in Manhattan in 1912, was devoted to painting people in their everyday urban lives.

Based on a detailed examination of specific aspects of Nazi propaganda, this book (originally published in 1983) enhances the understanding of National Socialism by revealing both its power and its limitations.

Die erste vollständige Edition eines der erschütterndsten Dokumente der NS-Herrschaft.