Military forces and sectors

Tucked away in the archives of the Museum for Transport and Technology in Berlin is an old photograph of a Hawker Hurricane on public display.

"e;I recommend The Rescue Ships and the Convoys to any person desiring an account of the Battle of the Atlantic told from a little known and unique perspective.

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

+++ Verdun, die blutigste Schlacht des Ersten Weltkriegs, in einer fesselnden Geschichtserzählung dargestellt – von den Kämpfen selbst bis zur Erinnerungskultur in Frankreich und Deutschland +++An einem kalten Februarmorgen 1916 eröffneten mehr als 1000 deutsche Geschütze das Feuer auf französische Stellungen rund um Verdun.

Das Standardwerk zum Ersten Weltkrieg (1914-1918) mit zahlreichen Abbildungen, Dokumenten und SelbstzeugnissenWie erlebten die Menschen, Soldaten wie Daheimgebliebene, die Wirklichkeit des Ersten Weltkriegs?

This book discusses the issues underlying contemporary Holocaust fiction.

The First World War had seen the mechanization of warfare.

This book promotes a historically and culturally sensitive understanding of trauma during and after World War II.

This book concerns building an idealized image of the society in which the Holocaust occurred.

This book consists of ten essays that examine the ways in which language has been used to evoke what Lawrence L.

This book offers a complete narrative of the development of Nordicism, from its roots in the National Romantic movement of the late eighteenth century, through to its most notorious manifestation in Nazi Germany, and finally to the fragmented forms that still remain in contemporary society.

This book presents a selection of the newest research on themes amplified by the sixth annual Beyond Camps and Forced Labour conference on the post-Holocaust period, including 'displaced persons', reception and resettlement, exiles and refugees, trials and justice, reparation and restitution, and memory and testimony.

The book assembles case studies on the human dimension of the Holocaust as illuminated in the academic work of preeminent Holocaust scholar Deborah Dwork, the founding director of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, home of the first doctoral program focusing solely on the Holocaust and other genocides.

This book offers a unique approach to memory studies by focusing on local memory work conducted across the divide of the fall of Communism, whereas other histories have consistently used 1989 as a watershed moment.

The Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture reflects current approaches to Holocaust literature that open up future thinking on Holocaust representation.

This book explores alternatives to realist, triumphalist, and heroic representations of war in British film and television.

This book provides numerous examples that apply the modern theory of bureaucracy developed in Breton and Wintrobe (1982 and 1986) to the Nazi Holocaust.

This book is the first to bring together analyses of the full range of post-war testimony given by survivors of the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

How, for just over a century, Britain ensured it would not face another Napoleon Bonaparte-manipulating European powers while building a global maritime empire At the conclusion of the Napoleonic Wars, a fragile peace emerged in Europe.

Keen to learn but short on time?

The 28th SS Volunteer Grenadier Division ‘Wallonien’, which mostly consisted of French-speaking citizens of the Kingdom of Belgium – first as part of the Wehrmacht, and later in the ranks of the Waffen SS – fought as one of the national legions against the Red Army on the Eastern Front in February 1942.

1940 : la France capitule devant les troupes du IIIe Reich.

Pour la première fois, deux membres de la haute administration entreprennent de réfléchir, sur un mode qui n'est pas celui du plaidoyer pro domo, sur l'attitude d'un corps auquel ils appartiennent, dont ils sont solidaires, mais dont ils analysent avec probité le comportement sous l'Occupation.

À la Libération, des régions entières du territoire français sont infestées de mines que les Allemands, les Alliés et la Résistance ont posées durant le conflit.

A staggering new account of the civilian death toll of the world warsand what it reveals about the true nature and cost of modern warSoldiers have never been the only casualties of wars.

A superbly illustrated account of the Japanese Navy during the fierce battles of Guadalcanal and the Solomons, explaining how and why it fought as it did.

One of the greatest ever sieges is masterfully brought to life by a leading expert on the Eastern Front.

We arent home yet, Major Paul Darling reminds his team at the end of a sixteen-hour day.

This book, in two volumes, attempts to explain the technology developments that evolved in the period from 1900 at Kitty Hawk through the ensuing seventy-five years leading to the development of the United States F-16 Multinational Weapon System in the mid-1970s.

Seapower has been a constant in world politics, a tool through which powerful countries have policed the seas for commercial advantage.

"e;At last a book has been written that forensically examines how the British Armed Forces fought its way through Normandy .

In September 1939, Nazi Germany initiated the second world war by invading Poland.

"e;The Battle of Moscow, 1941-1942: The Red Army's Defensive Operations and Counteroffensive Along the Moscow Strategic Direction"e; is a detailed examination of one of the major turning points of World War II, as seen from the Soviet side.

In this compelling memoir, Erich Sommer recalls his life in pre-war Germany and the adventures he had flying for the Luftwaffe during the Second World War.

A wide-eyed South African conscript relates his small share of the war in Angola and Namibia in the 1980s.

This remarkable and very rare memoir discusses the bloody combat history of the Texas National Guard 36th Infantry Division in World War II, from pre-embarkation training through the capture of Rome.

In 2012, the company that created World of Tanks, the phenomenal worldwide massive, multi-player online game, started publishing a series of books in Russian that utilized Soviet documents and archival materials that had never before been seen by outsiders or published in any language about the design, procurement, development, manufacturing, and combat employment of Soviet armored fighting vehicles (AFVs) during World War Two (the Great Patriotic War to Russians).

In 2012, the company that created World of Tanks, the phenominal world-wide massive, multi-player online game, started publishing a series of books in Russian that utilized Soviet documents and archival materials that had never before been seen by outsiders or published in any language about the design, procurement, development, manufacturing, and combat employment of Soviet armored fighting vehicles (AFVs) during World War Two (the Great Patriotic War to Russians).

Featuring the art and images from World of Tanks, plus additional illustrations, the story of the SU-152 is told in graphic form along with tips on how to play with the SU-152 in the multi-player online game World of Tanks.