Social groups: religious groups and communities

Anzac Labour explores the horror, frustration and exhaustion surrounding working life in the Australian Imperial Force during the First World War.

Clergy are more likely than ever to be called on to respond to community trauma, sitting alongside trauma survivors after natural disasters, racial violence, and difficult losses.

Few places in the world carry as heavy a burden of history as Auschwitz.

Without question, inter-religious relations are crucial in the contemporary age.

The Imperial Japanese Navy's Special Landing Force units enjoyed a reputation out of proportion to their small size.

Merrill's Marauders were the first American Army infantry unit to fight in the China-Burma-India theatre, and one of the most renowned units to come out of World War II.

In the final six months of World War 2 the Tempest V was pitted against some of the Luftwaffe's most advanced fighter types.

Terrorism is a cancer, an infection, an epidemic, a plague.

This remarkable memoir by Menachem Mendel Frieden illuminates Jewish experience in all three of the most significant centers of Jewish life during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The first deployment of the V-1 was in June 1944 when, following two years of tests, Hitler gave the order to attack England.

The book is addressed to scholars and students in sociology and in phenomenological philosophy.

Negotiating China's Destiny explains how China developed from a country that hardly mattered internationally into the important world power it is today.

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.

To what extent did a perceived morality crisis play a role in the dramatic events of the last years of the Ottoman Empire?

After the Fall of France in 1940, a new puppet state was set up in the south.

The information, guidance, and resources this book offers make it a valuable tool for anyone directly or indirectly affected by grief, particularly teens and young adults.

Based upon the ubiquitous Grant/Sherman tank, the M7 Priest is the iconic Allied self-propelled howitzer.

This remarkable memoir by Menachem Mendel Frieden illuminates Jewish experience in all three of the most significant centers of Jewish life during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

"e;Establishes itself as the standard historical work on Nazi Germany’s mass murder of Europe’s Jews.

Exploring the image of Jews in India in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this book looks at both the Indian attitudes towards the Jewish communities of the subcontinent and at the way Jews and Judaism in general have been represented in Indian discourse.

Written in pieces over the last fifteen years of his life and published posthumously, S.

'Touching Cloth can be compared to Adam Kay's This Is Going to Hurt and the writings of the Secret Barrister' Observer'I laughed my way through this.

A window into the Jewish People's connection to Israel-written especially for Christians.

This book provides up-to-date insight into the notorious German unit, JV 44, its numerous aces and its stunning success with the revolutionary Me 262 during the last dramatic months of World War 2.

With the onset of a more conservative political climate in the 1980s, social and especially labour history saw a decline in the popularity that they had enjoyed throughout the 1960s and 1970s.

Being enough is a universal longing.

This book offers a comprehensive Possible Worlds framework with which to analyse counterfactual historical fiction.

This volume explores theoretical discourses in which religion is used to legitimize political violence.

An illuminating look at the concept of the generic and its role in making meaning in the world.

In the last few decades, the media, academics, and the general public have put considerable focus on Muslim culture and politics around the world.

Japan 1945.

The unparalleled, classic work of history that recreates the battle that changed World War IIthe Allied invasion of Normandy.

This book examines how the competition between religious and secular forces influenced state religion policy between 1990 and 2008.

The continued prominence of Islam in the struggle for democracy in the Muslim world has confounded Western democracy theorists who largely consider secularism a prerequisite for democratic transitions.

A great deal of attention has been given to the sociopolitical and theological importance of Black Religion.

The submarine was the invisible but formidable weapon of the Royal Navy during World War II.

This book argues that an active memory of and grief over structural wrongs yields positive agency.

At the outbreak of World War II in September 1939, Germany's armoured forces - the Panzerwaffe - were still in their infancy.

A valued adviser and trusted insider in the highest echelon of U.

A new look for Austerity.

Few of the combatants of World War II have captured the imagination as compulsively as the Fallschirmj ger.

This book establishes the profound significance of MGM's 1940 film The Mortal Storm, the first major Hollywood production to depict the plight of Jews in Germany before the Holocaust.

Warship Builders is the first scholarly study of the U.

Piecing together a fractured European continent after World War I, the Versailles Peace Treaty stipulated the long term occupation of the Rhineland by Allied troops.

This book puts together grounded research on the discourses that counter Islamophobic tropes in North America.

Scripture is replete with narratives that challenge a variety of philosophical concepts; including morality, divine benevolence, and human freedom.

What if you were to look at human suffering, pain, and loss with another lens?