What makes a man of God go to war, put themselves in extreme danger, giving care to wounded and dying? This is the story of Chaplains in World War 2....Loe edasi...
A ground-level history of the Holocaust, told through the voices of twenty European Jews. Drawing from diaries and memoirs, it reveals a multiplicity of experiences across countries, classes, and religious backgrounds. Each chapter traces a single y...Loe edasi...
Captured during the fall of Singapore in 1942, Percy Herbert survived Japanese captivity and the including the Alexandra Hospital massacre. Discovered after the war by Dame Sybil Thorndike, he went on to appear in over ninety films. A remarkable mem...Loe edasi...
Captured during the fall of Singapore in 1942, Percy Herbert survived Japanese captivity and the Alexandra Hospital massacre. Discovered after the war by Dame Sybil Thorndike, he went on to appear in over ninety films. A remarkable memoir of surviva...Loe edasi...
Catalina flying boats had unique characteristics and were operated by the RAAF in the Pacific War combat zone from the first day of the war to the last, serving in several key roles. This is a complete operational history of the Catalina in Australi...Loe edasi...
By drawing on the official wartime US Navy Combat Narrative, this book examines the mighty Coral Sea battle and explains the weapons, technology and tactics involved. Aimed at the non-expert reader, the book sets forth how one of the most important...Loe edasi...
An original member of the 506th PIRs demolition section, Jack Agnew fought in Normandy and the Netherlands, and was a Pathfinder for supply drops in Bastogne. Based on Agnews own recollections, this book reveals the reality of the notorious unit tha...Loe edasi...
This book discusses a number of operations undertaken by the XXXXVIII Panzer Corps in the direction of the Black Sea in 1941 and 42. A detailed analysis of raids and advances taken by panzer units on the Eastern Front in 1941–42.This book dis...Loe edasi...
It was soldiers from the German 716th Division who stood in the front line facing many of the Allied units that went ashore on 6 June 1944, D-Day, particularly the Anglo-Canadian assaults at Juno Beach and Sword Beach, as well as fighting against th...Loe edasi...
This collection of vivid essays examines some of the most fascinating aspects of the German resistance to Hitler. It includes the first translations into English of pioneering studies on the role of a leading Nazi in the July Plot, the flight of Rudo...Loe edasi...
The two most notorious massacres of British troops by the SS, at Le Paradis and at Wormhout, in northern France, took place within a day and forty kilometers of each other in May 1940.At Wormhout the main victims of the carnage were members of the 2n...Loe edasi...
Hitlers Ardennes Offensive, his last great throw of the dice, was stagnating. After the initial German successes, the Allies had rallied. In a desperate bid to recover the momentum, the Luftwaffe aimed to gain control of the air by launching a major...Loe edasi...
In April 1944 with the D-Day invasion looming, a convoy of American landing craft sailed along Englands south coast. In the dead of night, German E-boats struck and within minutes, ships were sunk, hundreds of US servicemen were dead, and the Allies...Loe edasi...
The Royal Norfolk Regiment had a fighting record second to none. Five members of the Regiment were awarded the Victoria Cross, the greatest number to any Line Infantry Regiment during the Second World War. 1st Battalion landed on Sword Be...Loe edasi...
As oral history gains long-overdue recognition, its power to illuminate the past has never been more vital. From buried time capsules to the preserved voices, letters, diaries, photographs and films of those who lived through history’s most pivotal m...Loe edasi...
This book examines the intellectual trajectories of international mid-career scholars working on the Second World War and the Holocaust in France across a wide range of disciplines, including history, literature, and cultural studies. It scrutinises...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: not a cult LLC, ISBN-13: 9781945649738)
A revelatory new history from one of Europes leading scholars, uncovering how Stalins systematic plunder of Germany after World War II fueled the Soviet Unions rise to superpower status. When the Red Army advanced into Central Europe in 194445, its...Loe edasi...
From genocidal campaigns to careful neutrality to valiant lifesaving efforts, every countrys experience of the Holocaust was different during and immediately following World War II. A RUSA Outstanding Reference Source 2025...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780192843784)
The story of Churchills relationship with the various kings and queens he served during his long political career, from his time as a radical Liberal under Edward VII, through his Finest Hour in the Second World War, to his last premiership under El...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231215022)
Through the lens of food and agriculture, this book offers new ways to understand the roots of the post–Second World War global order and the US position in it. The United States’s superpower status is often associated with its industrial, fi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231215039)
The United States’s superpower status is often associated with its industrial, financial, and military might. Yet its global power after the Second World War hinged in part on something often seen as backward: agriculture. In contrast to Britain, the...Loe edasi...
From the pre-eminent WWII historian, an ardent chronicle of the unprecedented and far-sighted U.S. postwar decision to aid its enemies as well as its allies via the Marshall Plan, which led to eight decades of peace and prosperity in the West t...Loe edasi...
The riveting story of the ring of spies known as the Cambridge Five, who infiltrated the highest levels of the British establishment and helped Stalin cement a half century of Soviet domination over Eastern Europe The Cambridge Five w...Loe edasi...
During World War II, religious pacifist David Miller and a group of conscientious objectors made an extraordinary choice: they signed up for government-sponsored medical experiments that intentionally infected them with hepatitis. Their goal was sim...Loe edasi...
A gripping microhistory of wartime Brittany, tracing Saint-Casts journey from occupation and hardship to clandestine resistance and ultimate liberation, revealing the courage, conflict, and legacy of an ordinary community under extraordinary pressur...Loe edasi...
Museums in Israel After the Holocaust explores the influence of the traumatic events of the Holocaust on the formation of a cultural heritage policy during the foundational years of the State of Israel....Loe edasi...
Accounting for the Holocaust reveals how the numerical calculations, techniques and reports that constitute accounting practices allowed the attempted annihilation of Jews by the German Nazis and the Italian Fascists to be carried out with machine-l...Loe edasi...
This Palgrave Handbook offers the first comprehensive survey of the history and memory of the Holocaust in Australia. Divided into four parts, the handbook covers key historical connections between Australia and the events of the Holocaust, includ...Loe edasi...
The book offers an overview of corporatism in Fascist Italy. It examines not only the ideology, but also the acts and real activities of corporative institutions (corporazioni)....Loe edasi...
More than two thousand people from the British Channel Islands were deported to and interned in Germany during the Second World War, making up as many as 60 of all interned British citizens in occupied territory during this period....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Michael Joseph Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780241767122)
War came to North Africa in June 1940. But it was over a year before a newly-formed SAS went into action. Until then, the fight belonged to an elite, top secret band of brothers called the Long Range Desert Group.They were Britain’s fi...Loe edasi...
Bring to life the legendary tanks that rumbled across the battlefields of World War Two with Imperial War Museums fantastic colouring book....Loe edasi...
The remarkable story of the real Dads Army, from the bestselling historian of The Secret Life of Bletchley Park Impeccably researched and deliciously entertaining, Dads Army shines a bright searchlight on to an organization dismissed...Loe edasi...
Illustrated throughout, this uncovers the hundreds of British and French warships in the Dunkirk evacuation, whose actions have been overshadowed by the fame of the Little Ships.In this book, nav...Loe edasi...
Through World War II the US Army worked on projects for new heavy tanks, which are charted in this illustrated study of the M6 and the never-built T14, T28, and Pershing-derived designs....Loe edasi...
This fully illustrated study pits Germanys Panzer I against the Soviet T-26 in the Spanish Civil War. This fully illustrated study pits Germanys Panzer I against the Soviet T-26 in the Spanish Civil War.In 1936, as...Loe edasi...
In 1943, there were more than 60 prisoner of war camps throughout Mussolinis Italy. Behind barbed wire and under the guards dark gaze were captive Allied soldiers. After the Italian Armistice thousands escaped as guards deserted their posts, but w...Loe edasi...
Packed with illustrations, this is the first history of MarinegruppenkommandoSüd, Germanys southern naval command that fought a fast and furious war at the far end of the Mediterranean....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Simon & Schuster Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781398540354)
‘An exceptional piece of work; powerful, vivid and compelling’ Rowland White, author of Vulcan 607The Second World War was not only fought in the skies above Europe or on distant beaches. Between 1939 and 1945, Hitl...Loe edasi...
Riveting - The New York Times THE LITTLE-KNOWN STORY OF THE ALLIES FIGHT IN WWIIS CHAOTIC AND LETHAL CHINA-BURMA-INDIA THEATER. In April 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army captured Burma, closing the only ground route from Ind...Loe edasi...
Absorbing history of an unlikely alliance.” - Kirkus ReviewsFrom the New York Times bestselling authors of Ghosts of Honolulu comes their most harrowing true...Loe edasi...
An illustrated account of the action-packed combat missions carried out by the Luftwaffes powerfully armed Junkers Ju 88C day and nightfighters ...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Michael Joseph Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780241767139)
PRE-ORDER THE ACTION-PACKED STORY OF THE WWII GROUP THAT BECAME OUR SAS, FROM ONE OF THE UKS MOST STORIED SPECIAL FORCES OPERATORS A must read for any military enthusiast . . . insightful and inspirational JASON FOX A heart...Loe edasi...
Overy has written a masterpiece of analytical history, posing and answering one of the great questions of the century.Sunday Times (London)...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: St Martin's Press, ISBN-13: 9781250429933)
An oral history of the brutal Pacific Theater in WWII, told by many of the last living U.S. Marine veterans.During World War II, over 16 million Americans served in the Armed Forces. Today, less than 1 percent are still alive. Th...Loe edasi...
Sari: Rochester Studies in East and Central Europe
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Rochester Press, ISBN-13: 9781648251290)
Demonstrates how museums, public monuments and private collections in Poland generate competing interpretations of the past-particularly the Holocaust. Highlights political tensions and offers universal insights into the power of curated memory....Loe edasi...
The Italian Army in the Battle for Sicily recounts the Sicilian campaign during the summer of 1943, as experienced through the actions of the Italian units tasked with confronting the invasion. The Italians were equipped with inadequate weaponry and...Loe edasi...
This third volume brings the narrative to the opening hours of Operation Barbarossa. At dawn on 22 June 1941, the Luftwaffe launched devastating surprise raids against Soviet airfields in the Baltic region. Mikhail Timin provides a detailed reconstru...Loe edasi...
Sent to Die in Berlin is the untold story of 300 Latvian soldiers ordered into the German capital in late April 1945 in a futile attempt to hold back the Red Army.Very few survived, and until now the stories of the veterans who escaped have been in L...Loe edasi...
The concluding volume of this four-part series brings the narrative of 22 June 1941 in the Baltic skies to its grim finale. After the destruction wrought by the dawn raids and morning battles, the Luftwaffe pressed home its advantage in the afternoon...Loe edasi...
This first volume explores the origins of the Lend-Lease programme for Soviet aviation. Drawing on Soviet, American, and British archival sources, the author examines the political negotiations, diplomatic debates, and logistical challenges that shap...Loe edasi...
New paperback edition - This is an important book on one of the most controversial campaigns of the Second World War. When we came out above ground there was rubble everywhere, asphalt on the roads had melted in the heat. My only thought was to get...Loe edasi...
This first volume traces the dramatic transformation of Italy’s elite naval raiders into a land-based force during the turbulent years following the 1943 armistice. Drawing on archival sources and contemporary accounts, Massimiliano Afiero explores t...Loe edasi...
Since his re-election in 2024, President Donald Trump has made claims to annex both Canada and Greenland, straining relations with both Canadian and Danish governments. However, up until 2022 Denmark and Canada had their own dispute that was resolved...Loe edasi...
As the Second World War entered its final phase in Central Europe, Hungary became the focus of some of the most intense urban and operational fighting on the Eastern Front. Volume 2 Siege and Breakout picks up the story in January 1945, as Soviet for...Loe edasi...
This second volume examines the combat fighters delivered to the Soviet Union under Lend-Lease. Vladimir Kotelnikov analyses the service of British Hurricanes and Spitfires, and American aircraft such as the Bell P-39 Airacobra, P-63 Kingcobra, and C...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Fighting High Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781838068790)
In 1942;a Hudson aircraft vanished over Iceland with RAF pilot Alfred Ginge Culver;war artist Eric Ravilious;and three crew aboard. Love as Strong as Death explores the haunting mystery of their disappearance and the enduring quest of families left...Loe edasi...
A woman’s quiet life became a wartime weapon. Jutta Graae – bank clerk, society hostess, master manipulator – ran secret lines between occupied Denmark and Churchill’s Britain. Code Name: Grand Duchess reveals the hidden female intelligence work that...Loe edasi...
The 1st Combat Cargo Squadron, a.k.a., “The Great Snafu Fleet,” was organized in 1944 as part of the larger Air Commando project for delivering supplies by air to British and American forces in Burma using the Douglas C-47/Dakota. Initially in servic...Loe edasi...
On June 6, 1944, the Normandy landings began. At the heart of this battle were four young men of three nationalities, all from the same family originally from Normandy, ready to fight to liberate this distant homeland....Loe edasi...
Assigned to the C-47 troop carrier squadrons, more than 6,500 glider pilots played a key role in the newly developed U.S. Army Airborne Doctrine in World War II. These servicemen faced an especially daunting challenge: deliver heavy equipment, tro...Loe edasi...
They fought in the Battle of the Bulge and landed at Guadalcanal; they bombed Germany and bull-rushed Iwo Jima. Yes, these men were soldiers, but they shared something else vital in common: They were college and pro football players. Some carri...Loe edasi...
This keepsake collection, featuring tributes from Margaret Atwood and Neil Young, captures the essence of a revolutionary life as it celebrates the legacy of environmental icon David Suzuki.Across his 90 years on planet Earth, Davi...Loe edasi...
A leading historian of World War II sheds new light on the purposes and impact of the U.S. incendiary and atomic bombing of Japan’s cities in 1945. With the development of the B-29 “Superfortress” in summer 1944, strategic bombing, a central...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: OR Books, ISBN-13: 9781682196519)
Hitler and My Mother-in-Law is a riveting memoir that explores the intersection of truthboth familial and politicalthrough the colorful and complex life of the authors mother-in-law. In a time like our own of intense propagan...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: W H Allen, ISBN-13: 9780753561218)
At the end of 1940, Britain was under siege. Poland, Belgium, Holland, Norway and France had already fallen to Nazi rule, and the British army had been destroyed at Dunkirk. In the rubble of the Allies’ crumbled defense, Churchill’s Invairlor...Loe edasi...
