Between Charnwood and the Chevin. Growing Up in Derbyshire, Just After the Second World War: A Memoir, Paperback - Brenda Ray

It's snapshot of the time between the austerity at the end of the Second World War and the beginning of the Swinging Sixties, a bit of social histo...

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A major new history of post-war EuropePublisher: Profile Books LtdAuthor(s): Paul BettsIllustration(s): Black and white photos throughoutNumber of ...

DescriptionPoland was re-created as an independent nation at the end of the First World War, but it soon faced problems as Nazi Germany set about e...

DescriptionDuring the Second World War over half-a-million African troops served with the British Army as combatants and non-combatants in campaign...

This edited collection explores memories and experiences of genocide, civilian casualties, and other atrocities that occurred after the Second Worl...

The traumatic surreal is the first major study to examine the leading role Germanophone women artists have played in deploying surrealism to respon...

Reducere. The Soviet Union was not renowned for its fashionable clothing. However, after the World War II the Soviet Government opened several parallel organ...

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During the Second World War, German science and technology posed a terrifying threat to the Allied nations. These advanced weapons, which included ...

Mid-Century Gothic offers a fresh perspective on the cultural moment that followed World War II, and discovers a deep sense of unease mingling with...

The first book to record the contributions made by Northern Irish people during the Second World War and the affect those contributions had on thei...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr Simon (Plymouth University, UK) ToppingIllustration(s): 23 bw illusNumber of pages: 328Publicatio...

Reducere. In a definitive new account of the Soviet Union at war, Alexander Hill charts the development, successes and failures of the Red Army from the indu...

Nicholas Rankin's revelatory new book, whose cast of characters includes Haile Selassie, Anthony Burgess and General Sikorski, sets Gibraltar in th...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1939 Hitler went to war not just with Great Britain; he also went to war with the whole of the British Empire, the greatest empire th...

DescriptionTrevor Royle examines Scotland's role in the Second World War from a wide range of perspectives. The country's geographical position gav...

Publisher: Red Sea Press, U.S.Number of pages: 428Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 154 x 229 x 29Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Edmund...

Reducere. In the tradition of Jo Ann Beard's Boys of My Youth, and Mary Karr'sThe Liar's Club, Paula McLain has written a powerful and haunting memoir about ...

A unique, moving collection of first-person accounts of the Second World War, published in association with the award-winning children's newspaper ...

Reducere. An account of the Second World War, that is published in association with the Imperial War Museums. It examines the causes of the war, its great ba...

Reframing remembrance is an investigation into French cinema's representation of the Second World War. Focusing on films released between 1995 and ...

The full story of Poland's part in WW2 from failure of pre-war diplomacy and planning, through to betrayal by Allies leading to civil war and Sovie...

Taking seriously Ireland's euphemism for World War II, ""the Emergency"", Anna Teekell's Emergency Writing asks both what happens to literature wri...

These are people who have gone on to leave an important but often hidden trace in the moral and cultural life of Britain and beyond. The story of t...

A concise, accessible account of strategy and the Second World War. How the war was won . . . and lost..

DescriptionFighting the People's War is an unprecedented, panoramic history of the 'citizen armies' of the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, India...

Jonathan Fennell captures for the first time the true wartime experience of the ordinary soldiers from across the empire who made up the British an...

Reducere. Beginning with a look at the readiness of the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy and the United States armed forces, this book gives a detailed accoun...

The Road to 1945 is a rigorously researched study of the crucial moment when political parties put aside their differences to unite under Churchill...

By investigating representations of the war years in a selection of French crime novels from the mid-1940s to the present day, this book argues for...