Social groups: religious groups and communities

SOE, the Special Operations Executive, was a small, tough British secret service, a dirty tricks department established in July 1940 and encouraged by Churchill to set Europe ablaze .

Twentieth century continental thinkers such as Bergson, Levinas and Jonas have brought fresh and renewed attentions to Jewish ethics, yet it still remains fairly low profile in the Anglophone academic world.

In this concise and fascinating book, Fawaz A.

Active at the time when the social sciences were founded, Max Weber's social theory contributed significantly to a wide range of fields and disciplines.

Delving into a traditionally underexplored period, this book focuses on the treatment of Greek Jews under the dictatorship of Ioannis Metaxas in the years leading up to the Second World War.

In The Nones: Where They Came From, Who They Are, and Where They Are Going, Second Edition, Ryan P.

The first English translation of a German account of the attempt to relieve the Nazis’ Sixth Army at Stalingrad during World War II.

In his monumental work Bloody Shambles, Volume Two, Christopher Shores described in detail the British retreat out of Burma, culminating at the end of May 1942.

Beginning in 1946, when Victor Gregg was demobbed after the end of the Second World War and deposited in London Paddington, Soldier, Spy is the story of a soldier returning to civilian life and all the challenges it entails.

This edited collection is one of the few sociological and anthropological studies of Halal markets.

This book offers new perspectives on the early and formative years of the German-Jewish philosopher Hans Jonas, through innovative studies of his German and Hebrew work in pre-war Germany and Palestine.

This book elaborates Jean Amery's critique of philosophy and his discussion of some central philosophical themes in At the Mind's Limits and his other writings.

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The Panzerkampfwagen IV has often been referred to as the 'workhorse' of the German Army in World War II.

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.

Examines the "e;home front"e; war effort from an overall imperial perspective, assessing the contribution of individual imperial territories.

The murder of six million Jews during the Holocaust is a crime that has had a lasting and massive impact on our time.

Designed and produced under the regulations of the Washington Naval Treaty, the heavy cruisers of the Pensacola, Northampton, Portland, New Orleans and Wichita classes were exercises in compromise.

David Tittensor offers a groundbreaking new perspective on the G?

Award-winning historian Mike Walling captures the essence of the Arctic Convoys of World War II.

Surviving repression tells the story of the Muslim Brotherhood following the 2013 coup d'etat in Egypt.

This book articulates a deeper understanding of the phenomenon of Jew hatred as a metaphysical aspect of the human soul.

»Lebensraum im Osten« – das war das eher phantomhafte Kriegsziel Hitlers, bereits 1925 in seinem Buch ›Mein Kampf‹ entworfen.

In Eve's Journey, Nehama Aschkenasy traces the migration of several female images and feminine situations from their early appearances in Biblical writings to their incarnations in modern Hebraic literature.

Clearly the favourite character of Canada's overseas troops during World War II, "e;Herbie"e; had a penchant for getting into some of the most bizarre predicaments imaginable.

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Exploring the woefully neglected reality of Islam as a major cultural and relgious facet of American and European politics and societies, Cesari examines how Muslims in the West are challenging the notion of an inevitable clash or confrontation.

The Battle of the Atlantic, the longest continuous campaign of World War II, climaxed in 1943, when Germany came closest to interrupting Allied supply lines and perhaps winning the war.

Soon after the United States entered World War II, American ground and air forces were on their way to the European theater of operations.

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For over a century, Muslim women have championed their own brand of feminism, rooted in human rights principles and a deep understanding of their diverse cultural contexts.

Afghanistan emerged as separate Kingdom in Mid-18th Century under Ahmed Shah Abdali (Durrani), one of the mighty commanders of Nadir Shah of Persia.

This book explains why Islamist parties have dominated the politics of Egypt for the better part of fifty years.

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.

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Garcia de Orta's Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India (1563) was one of the first books to take advantage of the close relationship between medicine, trade and empire in the early modern period.

The United States and the Nazi Holocaust is an invaluable synthesis of United States policies and attitudes towards the Nazi persecution of European Jewry from 1933 to the modern day.

This book details the colourful experiences of the elite pilots of the AAF's Tenth and Fourteenth Air Forces in the 'forgotten' China-Burma-India theatre during WW2.

Designed by illusionist Jasper Maskelyne, RAF Tempsford was constructed to give overflying enemy aircraft the impression it was disused.

Diese biographieanalytische Studie thematisiert die Auseinandersetzung mit der Bedeutung von Religiosität und religiösen Lern- und Bildungsprozessen von Frauen für Identitätsbildungsprozesse.

Half a million European Roma were exterminated by the Nazi regime; many more were subjected to a policy of racial discrimination similar to that suffered by the Jewish people.