The first complete English-language collection of Simone Weil’s letters to her loved ones, A Life in Letters deepens appreciation of one of the twentieth century’s great thinkers by offering insight into her relationships, spiritual and occupa...Loe edasi...
This book takes a thematic-cum-stylistic approach to Audens earlier poetry and poetics. By dividing the poets ethical consciousness into three thematic groups (cognition, emotion and conation), it demonstrates how readers can construct poetic themes...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...
A vivid account of one of historys most significant events: the approval, construction, and fateful decision to drop the atomic bomb - based on new research and interviews, timed to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima attack....Loe edasi...
From the New York Times bestselling author, the incredible true story of the American archaeologists and classicists who went undercover as OSS spies during World War II to fight the Nazis and protect the worlds most precious relics...Loe edasi...
This Open Access book presents the first in-depth analysis of the Finnish-German military alliance (19411944) as a translation zone a multilingual network of military, administrative and civilian encounters held together by linguistically versed so...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...
A thrilling true story of courage, resistance and ultimately betrayal in the Third Reich captured by internationally bestselling author and prize-winning journalist Jonathan Freedland....Loe edasi...
The incredible story of how one of Adolf Hitlers top secret V2 rockets was stolen by the Poles and smuggled to Britain in the most extraordinary operation of the Second World War. A fascinating account of one of World War Twos most s...Loe edasi...
This visual history sheds light on forgotten parts of World War II history through the lens of the US Marine Corps, serving everywhere outside of the Pacific.When we think of US Marine involvement in World War II, we invariably thin...Loe edasi...
Mead significantly expands our understanding of Montgomery himself, his motivation and his genius GENERAL LORD RICHARD DANNATTDeeply researched, highly insightful... Contains all anyone needs to know about Britains most consequen...Loe edasi...
From the hellish skies over Europe to the unforgiving terrain of the Himalayas, this is the first complete history of the C-47 aircrews who helped turn the tide of war....Loe edasi...
Discover for the first time the story of the Organisation Todt, a hidden and brutal organisation overseen by Hitler at the heart of the Nazi machine....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: The Boydell Press, ISBN-13: 9781916931213)
A revealing documentary account of how Britain struggled to shape a modern navy amid Cold War pressures, rapid technological change and relentless financial constraint....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...
Positioned at the crossroads of global and military history, this is a major contribution to the cultural and social history of war and its aftermath. Cabanes and Givens bring together leading experts to offer an interlaced history which rethinks th...Loe edasi...
Sari: Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009692946)
Positioned at the crossroads of global and military history, this is a major contribution to the cultural and social history of war and its aftermath. Cabanes and Givens bring together leading experts to offer an interlaced history which rethinks th...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...
They werent willing to kill for their country, but they were willing to die for it. During World War II, religious pacifist David Miller and a group of conscientious objectors made an extraordinary choice: they signed up for government-sp...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. Museums in 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...
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...
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...
The first complete English-language collection of Simone Weil’s letters to her loved ones, A Life in Letters deepens appreciation of one of the twentieth century’s great thinkers by offering insight into her relationships, spiritual and occupa...Loe edasi...
The most honest attempt yet to tell how the Battle of Britain really was —Andrew Wilson, ObserverHistory is swamped by patriotic myths about the aerial combat fought between the RAF and the Luftwaffe over the summer of 1940. I...Loe edasi...
The most honest attempt yet to tell how the Battle of Britain really was —Andrew Wilson, ObserverHistory is swamped by patriotic myths about the aerial combat fought between the RAF and the Luftwaffe over the summer of 1940. I...Loe edasi...
XXX Corps, one of the most formidable and experienced corps in Montgomery’s armoury, has carved out an enviable reputation for itself in battle that few can match. Their story is meticulously researched in ‘A Final Reckoning’, which is a brutal blow-...Loe edasi...
This first volume of Iron Resolve offers a compelling and meticulously researched account of the 4th Armoured Brigade’s preparation for, and initial contact in, the Battle of Gazala—one of the most significant armoured confrontations of the Second Wo...Loe edasi...
Regia Marina on the Eastern Front, 1942–1943 explores Italy’s little-known naval operations in the Black Sea and Lake Ladoga during the Second World War. Drawing on rare sources, Marek Sobski reveals how Italian submarines, torpedo boats, and naval c...Loe edasi...
Continuing the theme of detailed army organisations of WW2 started in the first four volumes on British and Commonwealth armies, the series now extends to take a look at the other nations of Europe that were victims of Axis aggression, or that manage...Loe edasi...
This book takes a thematic-cum-stylistic approach to Audens earlier poetry and poetics. By dividing the poets ethical consciousness into three thematic groups (cognition, emotion and conation), it demonstrates how readers can construct poetic themes...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...
A vivid account of one of historys most significant events: the approval, construction, and fateful decision to drop the atomic bomb - based on new research and interviews, timed to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima attack....Loe edasi...
The first English language history of Chinas Most Important Battle in World War II In April 1944, Imperial Japan launched Operation Ichigo to secure a transport route linking Japanese forces in northern China and Southeast Asia, while el...Loe edasi...
From the New York Times bestselling author, the incredible true story of the American archaeologists and classicists who went undercover as OSS spies during World War II to fight the Nazis and protect the worlds most precious relics...Loe edasi...
