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The imperial powers of the nineteenth century, having weakened one another in World War I, destroyed themselves in World War II. In the aftermath of the war, Europe was in shambles. Nearly all of Fr……続きを見る

On February 6, 1945, Robert Brasillach was executed for treason by a French firing squad. He was a writer of some distinctionーa prolific novelist and a keen literary critic. He was also a dedicated……続きを見る

The Second World War is a compact but comprehensive and absorbing history of the war. It examines the causes of the war, how it was won and lost, and its far-reaching consequences for humanity. In t……続きを見る

For three generations of Americans, World War II has been a touchstone for the understanding of conflict and of America’s role in global affairs. But if World War II helped shape the perception of w……続きを見る

The stories of the former comfort women have galvanized both Asian and non-Asian intellectuals working in a variety of fields. Scholars of Asian history and politics, feminists, human rights activis……続きを見る

From Hitler to Trujillo is a memoir by a Holocaust survivor Alfredo Vorshirm. His gripping story embodies the Jewish European experience during and after World War II and dramatizes the events that ……続きを見る

**The acclaimed biography of Joseph Stalin from Robert Service, world-leading expert in modern and Soviet era Russia. 'Outstanding . . . will be read for decades' – Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of……続きを見る

Following their rampage through Southeast Asia and the Pacific in the five months after Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces moved into the Solomon Islands, intending to cut off the critical American suppl……続きを見る

Hundreds of novels have been written about young men coming of age in war. And millions of young men have, in fact, come of age in combat. This is the story of one of them, as told by his daughter, ……続きを見る

The development and use of the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki number among the formative national experiences for both Japanese and Americans as well as for 20th-century Japan-US relations. ……続きを見る

“ . . . until now how the Navy managed to instantaneously move from the overt legal restrictions of the naval arms treaties that bound submarines to the cruiser rules of the eighteenth century to a ……続きを見る

As chaplain for the US Army's 102nd Evacuation Hospital in the European Theater, Renwick C. Kennedy--"Ren" to those who knew him--witnessed great courage, extreme talent, and many lives snatched fro……続きを見る

History of the successful Polish Costal Command Squadron in RAF. The Polish pilots flew Battles, Wellingtons and Warwicks. It contains superb color illustrations of camouflage and markings, rare bla……続きを見る

Most studies of the 1940 Western Campaign have tended to focus on a narrow range of topics, principally those relating the German forces or the epic of Dunkirk. The publication of this title is aime……続きを見る

In December 1941, the Japanese Imperial Army came ashore on the British colony of Malaya. In support of that invasion, its air arm soon began to raid neighboring Burma and especially its seaport and……続きを見る

While in a Russian-administered holding camp in Katowice, Poland, in 1945, Primo Levi was asked to provide a report on living conditions in Auschwitz. Published the following year, it was subsequent……続きを見る

Germany’s 1941 seizure of Yugoslavia led to a bloody insurgency, and the Wehrmacht waged a brutal campaign in responseーmassive reprisal shootings, destruction of entire villages, and huge mobile op……続きを見る

When Japan invaded China in the summer of 1937, many Chinese journalists greeted the news with euphoria. For years, the Chinese press had urged Chiang Kai-shek to resist Tokyo’s aggressive overtures……続きを見る

Sir Geoffrey Cox described Sidi Rezegh, fought during Operation Crusader in Libya over November and December 1941, as ‘the forgotten battle of the Desert War’. The objective of Crusader was to retak……続きを見る

Ray and Betty Whipps both served in Europe during WWII: Ray as an infantryman under General Patton in the trenches of Normandy, Paris, and Belgium, and Betty as a field nurse in Cherbourg, France. T……続きを見る

This is a story of a boy, born in the excitement of the early twenties when times were great. After the flu epidemic of the first world war, leading up to the flappers, and prohibition. speak easy's……続きを見る

HMS Tally Ho, captained by Commander L.W.A. Bennington was a T-class submarine which achieved spectacular success in the Second World War. Her name was chosen for her by Winston Churchill and it pro……続きを見る

During World War II, merchant marine tankers in convoys plied the frozen North Atlantic through the flaming wreckage of torpedoed ships. Working to keep sea lanes open, valiant merchant seamen suppl……続きを見る

Although the Civil War reconfigured Dixie, in the half century since the end of World War II the American South has been massively changed again. It is still an improbable mix of tradition and trans……続きを見る

Thirty riveting months in the life of a common infantryman, one among the "citizen soldiers" who took the Allies to victory When drafted into the army in 1943, A. Cleveland Harrison was a reluctant ……続きを見る

THE FORGE: The Decline and Rebirth of the American Military, November 12, 1918 to December 6, 1941 by Eric Hammel = Because the United States military undertook its first World War II offensive oper……続きを見る

Even before the British and Americans were able to make major strategic decisions in 1943, a massive German surrender at Stalingrad in February marked the beginning of the end for Hitlers armies in ……続きを見る

*Includes over 20 pictures of the important people, places, and events associated with the Manhattan Project. *Includes a Table of Contents. In the 19th century, the Scottish writer Thomas Carlyle f……続きを見る

*Includes over 25 pictures of important people, places, and events, including generals, maps, and each of the 5 landing beaches.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Cont……続きを見る

All Americans are familiar with the day that will live in infamy. On December 7, 1941, the Japanese conducted a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor (called Hawaii Operation or Operation AI by the Japane……続きを見る