Social groups: religious groups and communities

This volume examines how people in Poland learn about Jewish life, culture and history, including the Holocaust.

This book proposes that Jews were present in England in substantial numbers from the Roman Conquest forward.

This is an overview of America's first effort in military aid to a foreign sovereign nation at a time when Europe was engaged in open warfare, Asia was facing a series of military confrontations, and most of the world thought global conflagration was inevitable.

Hitler and the Nazis saturated their country with many types of propaganda to convince the German citizenry that the Nazi ideology was the only ideology.

The German invasion of Poland in September 1939 abruptly ended author Jan Rosinski's student life, and propelled him into an activist role in the Polish resistance organization Armia Krajowa.

Submarines were responsible for about 55 percent of the tonnage of the Japanese fleets sunk during World War II.

The first U.

World War II found Albania fighting a war within a war.

Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 secured for Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese Nationalist forces what no amount of pleading had been able to produce: an influx of U.

On February 19, 1945, seven battalions of U.

The purpose of this study, commissioned by the Army, was to document the process by which the Congressional Medal of Honor was awarded from December 7, 1941, through September 1, 1948; to identify units in which African Americans served; to identify by name all black soldiers whose names were submitted for the medal and to document any errors in the processing of their nominations; and to compile a list of all black soldiers who received the Distinguished Service Cross, the second highest award.

Within hours of the strike against Pearl Harbor, the U.

In the island battles of World War II, the United States Marine Corps came into its own.

Decades have passed since World War II, yet the myth that all Germans were Nazi sympathizers still persists.

This volume deals specifically with escape and evasion in the Netherlands, Belgium and France, an operation in which the author himself was directly involved, and discusses the role which these lines of escape played in the lives of airmen who were forced to bail out over enemy territory.

He was a chemistry student in college on his way home for a visit when news of Pearl Harbor came over the car radio.

The Nazis called them Kriegsgefangen, a term that the prisoners of war shortened to "e;Kriegie.

In 1940, the threat of war in the Pacific forced the United States to expand its fleet quickly.

This military history covers the attempts of General Wladyslaw Sikorski and his successor (General Kazimierz Sosnkowski) to integrate Polish forces into Western strategy, and to have their clandestine forces declared an allied combatant.

The author demonstrates that the Italian Army deserves attention for its often humanitarian treatment of Italian Jews and other Jews.

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.

On June 6, 1944, the Allies launched Operation Overlord, the largest, most hazardous amphibious assault in history.

From the time his Nazi regime launched World War II to the present, Adolf Hitler has frequently been depicted on film.

Jerusalem has long been one of the most sought-after destinations for the followers of three world faiths and for secularists alike.

Long before Hank Greenberg earned recognition as baseball's greatest Jewish player, Jews had developed a unique, and very close, relationship with the American pastime.

At the conclusion of World War II, war crimes tribunals were carried out at Nuremberg, Germany.

Events since the end of the Cold War have dashed hopes that the demise of the Soviet Union would ease the Arab-Israeli conflict and help bring about a more stable Middle East--the basic goal of American foreign policy toward that region.

This dictionary gives an enormous amount of basic information on the Third Reich era by listing, and often depicting, German terms connected to Nazism and the Germany of World War II.

As the United States began its campaign against numerous Japanese-held islands in the Pacific, Japanese tactics required them to develop new weapons and strategies.

Joe Louis held the heavyweight boxing championship longer than any other fighter and defended it a record 25 times.

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.

"e;This is the story of my experiences with the medium bomber designated by the Army as a B-26 and named by the British the Marauder.

This is a thematic survey of American films with significant Jewish content that made an important statement about America.

The B-26 Marauder was a formidable weapon in the campaign to defeat Hitler's armies, and, in the words of his first copilot, "e;Louis Rehr "e;was the best there was"e; flying it.

A force of New Zealanders and Americans invaded the Treasury Islands in the South Pacific on October 27, 1943, retaking them from their Japanese occupiers.

During 1945, the author found herself in the monsoon-drenched jungles of Assam, caring for soldiers in the China-Burma-India theater of war.

"e;As a 15-year-old boy I fought briefly in a war.

Women took part in perilous resistance missions during World War II alongside a much larger number of male resistance agents.

This is the first detailed account of the 5,000 black troops who were reluctantly sent north by the United States Army during World War II to help build the Alaska Highway and install the companion Canol pipeline.

During World War II, the U.

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

The last days of the apocalypse are already upon us, but most people dont know it.

The role of religious education/faith development among Unitarian Universalists marks the uniqueness of this religious movement.

FASCINATING MANY WILL APPRECIATE THE NOSTALGIA AND PERSONAL LOOK INTO THE GREATEST ERA OF OUR AMERICAN HISTORY.

In Yesterdays Reflections, author Albert F.

Part history, part memoir, The Goose Girl, the Rabbi, and the New York Teachers: A Family Memoir recounts a narrative of lives lived in dramatically changing times.

My mother, Lovella Bagley had ten children.

The following book was translated and published in English: Ewa Kurek, YOUR LIFE IS WORTH MINE - How Polish Nuns Saved Hundreds of Jewish Children in German-Occupied Poland, foreword by Prof.

Roger Fazendin spent the last three years of his life collecting memories from his 756th Tank Battalion brothers who survived WWII and the Battle of Cassino.

In Jesus Christ the Person , author Nikolai Vladimirov uses a socio-spiritual method of analysis that supposes the social perception of the invisible, hidden, transcendental sides of reality in order to investigate Jesus Christ as a real, existing Person.