Second World War

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

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

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

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. 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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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. 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...

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...

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...

This book tells the story of the Greek resistance to Axis occupation during the Second World War and in particular the life of armed guerrillas. Ra...

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

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Publisher: Folly Books LtdAuthor(s): Nick McCamleyNumber of pages: 310Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 257 x 256 x 20Cover type: HardbackRedescope...

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

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...

Revealing the central yet intentionally obliterated role of Africa in the creation of modernity, Born in Blackness vitally reframes our understandi...

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Drawing on a range of material, the book demonstrates just how much death matters in wartime - not just to the individual, threatened with their ow...

Reducere. Recalls the group of scientists whose invention of radar during World War II contributed to the Allied victory, and chronicles their post-war achie...

A sweeping, groundbreaking epic that combines military with social history, to illuminate the ways in which Great Britain and its people were perma...

Reducere. In the autumn of 1938, Europe believed in the promise of peace. But only a year later, the fateful decisions of just a few men had again led Europe...

Reducere. When Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, launching World War Two, its army seemed an unstoppable force. The Luftwaffe bombed towns 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...

When nothing seemed able to contain the German advance, France, Great Britain and the USSR developed several programs of emergency fighters, as did...

DescriptionThe period from 1939 to 1945 saw some of the most devastating and remarkable events in living memory. Laboring beneath a daily burden of...

This book covers the Lavochkin fighters of the Second World War, from the original I-301 prototype, first flown in 1940, to the La-7 fighter of 194...

During the last months of the war, the wasted Japanese industry could not manufacture fighters that were sufficiently advanced to face the Superfor...

The Macchi C.202 was probably the most successful Italian fighter in WW2, the aircraft of almost all Italian top scoring aces. Mc.202 was fast and ...

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The 353rd Fighter Group, the `Slybirds', participated in the major WWII aerial battles. 450 photographs provide a unique window on this historic gr...

The first comprehensive history of this important class of ship. Contains the fruit of much original research. Highly readable text complimented by...