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The Battle of the Bulge was a critical battle in the war against Hitler's Nazis. Soldiers fought and died every day in the dead of winter. And when a grenade fell into his foxhole, Jim thought he wa……続きを見る

Kalter Krieg der Geschichtswissenschaftler In den ersten Jahrzehnten nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg kämpften die Historiker der beiden deutschen Staaten heftig um die Deutungshoheit der deutschen Geschi……続きを見る

Modified citrus pectin (MCP) is an amazing substance backed by impressive research. In this book, you'll learn that in addition to having the same beneficial effects as pectin, from which it is deri……続きを見る

Britain’s Special Operations Executive (SOE), which conducted sabotage campaigns and supported resistance movements in Axis-occupied Europe and in Asia, is often described as Winston Churchill’s bra……続きを見る

As an Official Army Photographer, "Mac" Fleming's assignment was to take motion pictures of significant wartime events for the US Army. In the pouch intended to carry his first-aid kit on his belt, ……続きを見る

Le memorie di Raffaella Duelli, Volontaria nel Battaglione Barbarigo della Decima Flottiglia Mas iniziano con la partenza del Barbarigo da Roma, narrando la lunga marcia del reparto verso il nord, s……続きを見る

Juan Pablo Fusi, unos de los historiadores más reputados e importantes de nuestro país, recorre los capítulos más destacados de la Segunda Guerra Mundial La Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945) fue, p……続きを見る

One city. One war. A story of transformation at home and abroad. Using newspaper accounts, interviews, letters, journals, and his own memory of the time, Wesley Newton reconstructs wartime-era Montg……続きを見る

Cet ouvrage fournit une analyse approfondie de La Vague de Todd Strasser avec toutes les clés pour analyse l'œuvre. La Vague s'inspire d'une expérience réalisée par un jeune professeur, Ron Jones, s……続きを見る

In der Deutschen Marine waren Schiffe, die nach dem Generalfeldmarschall Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher keine Seltenheit. Seiner offensiven Truppenführung verdankte er den populären Be……続きを見る

Humor and entertainment were vital to the war effort during World War I. While entertainment provided relief to soldiers in the trenches, it also built up support for the war effort on the home fron……続きを見る

Deploying concepts of interpretation, liberation, and survival, esteemed literary critic Herbert Lindenberger reflects on the diverse fates of his family during the Holocaust. Combining public, fami……続きを見る

This collection of essays by leading international scholars takes the Scrolls of Auschwitz as its starting point. These powerful hand-written testimonies, produced within Birkenau, seek to bear witn……続きを見る

Konrad Morgen: The Conscience of a Nazi Judge is a moral biography of Georg Konrad Morgen, who prosecuted crimes committed by members of the SS in Nazi concentration camps and eventually came face-t……続きを見る

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur le maréchal Pétain en moins d’une heure ! L’histoire de France est jalonnée de grands personnages qui ont façonné son destin. Philippe Pétain, quoi qu’o……続きを見る

How has Britain understood the Holocaust? This interdisciplinary volume explores popular narratives of the Second World War and cultural representations of the Holocaust from the Nuremberg trials of……続きを見る

Paris at War chronicles the lives of ordinary Parisians during World War II, from September 1939 when France went to war with Nazi Germany to liberation in August 1944. Readers will relive the fearf……続きを見る

In 1944, the British Fourteenth Army and the Japanese Fifteenth Army clashed around the town of Imphal, Manipur, in North East India in what has since been described as one of the greatest battles o……続きを見る

The magnificent heroes from a hidden page of history, the soldiers of La Nueve, No 9 company of General Leclerc’s renowned 2nd Armoured Division (DB).  According to the history books, the liber……続きを見る

More than seventy years following the D-Day Landings of 6 June 1944, Normandy's war heritage continues to intrigue visitors and researchers. Receiving well over two million visitors a year, the Norm……続きを見る

An examination of why and how Fascist Italy sought to increase its influence in the Middle East, and why Italian efforts ultimately failed. Offering fresh insights into Fascist Italy's foreign and c……続きを見る

My father was a boatswain's mate-pipefitter seaman aboard the U.S.S. Hyman DD-732, a Sumner Class Destroyer. The ship was stationed largely in the Pacific Theater for much of World War II. My father……続きを見る

This book adds to this growing body of scholarship on the Italian Resistance by analysing, for the first time, how the 'three wars' are represented over the broad spectrum of Resistance culture from……続きを見る

Taking a comparative approach and bringing together perspectives from Japan, China, Korea, and Taiwan, this volume considers former Japanese prime minister Tomiichi Murayama's 1995 apology statement……続きを見る

From 1941 to 1945, a small number of Jews were given the rights of Aryan citizens in Croatia by the pro-Nazi Utasha regime. This study seeks to explain why these exemptions from Ustasha racial laws ……続きを見る

Between September 1939 and June 1940, the British Expeditionary Force confronted the German threat to France and Flanders with a confused mind-set, an uncertain skills-set and an uncompetitive capab……続きを見る

Ionescu examines the process of economic Romanianization of Bucharest during the Antonescu regime that targeted the property, jobs, and businesses of local Jews and Roma/Gypsies and their legal resi……続きを見る

Some of the first figures the Nazis conscripted in their rise to power were rhetoricians devoted to popularizing the German vocabulary of Leben (life). This fascinating study reexamines this movemen……続きを見る

Greta Kuckhoff belonged to the anti-Nazi group, 'The Red Orchestra'. She survived the War and spent the next thirty years working to commemorate their resistance. Using previously unpublished source……続きを見る

Covering the period between the Munich Agreement and the Communist Coup in February 1948, this groundbreaking work offers a novel, provocative analysis of the political activities and plans of the C……続きを見る