Second World War

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

Using official WW2 documents this book provides the reader with the same information on the Panzer VI Ausf. E Tiger I that was available to British...

An innovative illustrated history of the Second World War, told with the help of personal stories from across the globe.Publisher: Thames & Hudson ...

In this highly original work Jeremy Black, one of world's leading military and cartographic historians, shows how fundamental maps were to the conf...

This book sets out to provide a coherent history of the fortunes of this ship-type in the twentieth century. It begins with a brief summary of deve...

Reducere. Winston Churchill fought the World War II twice over-first as Prime Minister during the war, and then later as the war's premier historian. From 19...

Reducere. War is often described as an extension of politics by violent means. With contributions from twenty-eight eminent historians, Volume 2 of The Cambr...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Martin GilbertA "magisterial" (The New York Times) single-volume history of WWII It began with the German invasion of Polan...

Reducere. DescriptionAs German troops entered Paris following their victory in June 1940, the American journalist William L. Shirer observed that they carrie...

Reducere. The conflict that ended in 1945 is often described as a 'total war', unprecedented in both scale and character. Volume 3 of The Cambridge History o...

The publication of this book in 1999 provided the first detailed examination of the many Irish men and women, all volunteers, who served in the Sec...

The articles selected for this volume cover a wide range of topics reflecting the fact that the largest recorded war in history and the most intens...

A comprehensive, highly detailed, and highly illustrated history of Soviet-built fighters used during the Second World War including detailed descr...

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

This is a major reassessment of the role of the war at sea in Allied victory in the Mediterranean. Richard Hammond demonstrates how the anti-shippi...

This volume details the influence of Second World War aviation development, experience and subsequent technological advances in shaping American ch...

DescriptionThis book presents a little-known aspect of America's aircraft development of World War II in emphasizing unique and non-production airc...

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

DescriptionThe First World War is often credited as being the event that gave Canada its own identity, distinct from that of Britain, France, and t...

A pioneering study of the experiences and emotional lives of British prisoners of war in Germany and Italy during the Second World War. Clare Makep...

Now in its 5th edition, The Origins of the Second World War explores the reasons why the Second World War broke out in September 1939 and why a Eur...

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This book reconstructs what Europe stood for in National Socialist Germany, analyses how the interplay of its defining elements changed dependent o...

Description Literature and Poverty offers an engaging overview of changes in literary perceptions of poverty and the poor. Part I of the book, from...

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a British secret service, formed in 1940 to encourage underground resistance to Hitler's Germ...

DescriptionPrior to the beginning of the Second World War, the Royal Hungarian Armed Forces - including the Air Force - prepared to engage the Litt...

This edited collection focuses on the negotiation of national, geographic and cultural identities during the Second World War among the constituent...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: George H. NashHerbert Hoover's "magnum opus"--at last published nearly fifty years after its completion--offers a revisioni...

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...

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

Reducere. Much has been written about the causes for the outbreak of World War I and the ways in which the war was fought, but few historians have tackled th...

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

Reducere. Recent decades have drawn more attention to the United States' treatment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Few people realize, however, th...

Reducere. A full assembly of all 249 maps and sketches from UNITED KINGDOM MILITARY SERIES: OFFICIAL CAMPAIGN HISTORY - THE MEDITERRANEAN AND MIDDLE EAST. Al...

This story covers the three main divisions of enlisted training in the US Navy during WWI: the training stations, the reserve training camps, and t...

Civil defence was the most significant voluntary organisation of the Second World War. It involved men and women of every class, generation and loc...

War of Words analyses Franco-British relations during the Second World War through the lens of rhetoric and empire. Through a comparative and trans...

Publisher: Rowman & LittlefieldAuthor(s): P. ClavalNumber of pages: 298Publication date: 1984Dimensions: 144 x 225 x 19Cover type: HardbackRedescop...

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

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

DescriptionThis important study examines women's life writing about the Second World War and the Holocaust, such as memoirs, diaries, docunovels, a...

The mobility of the Second World War, brought on by 'technological advances in destructive capabilities' needed new type of medical service. Succes...

Reducere. Vidkun Quisling, Norway's infamous Nazi collaborator, was perhaps the world's most renowned traitor. In early 1942, when he rose to power in occupi...

The Cambridge History of the Second World War is an authoritative new account of the conflict that unfolded between 1939 and 1945. With contributio...

Reducere. The definitive, Nobel Prize winning history of World War II, universally acknowledged as a magnificent historical reconstruction and an enduring wo...

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

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Prof. Peter (Ostasieninstitut, Germany) WetzlerNumber of pages: 256Collection: SOAS Studies in Moder...