Specific wars and campaigns Books

Introduction For the Duration: Place, Space and Gender Domestication of Industrial Employment Women on the Factory Floor Women in the Services: Morals and Morale Patriotic Femininity on the Home Front Sexuality in War Time War and Herstories: A Different...

Following the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931, the Chinese government spent a decade attempting to promote an international coalition against Tokyo. The rationale for this policy was that as Japan's attempts to establish hegemony over East Asia...

The essays in this book reflect a variety of views on the question of causation, regarding the transformation of American attitudes and actions in the wake of the Cold War's conclusion.

Bloody Pacific tells the real story of the attitudes and behaviour of American fighting men in the war against Japan, revealing much about the nature of this terrifying conflict that has until now remained unknown. Based on years of research and using...

With essays from leading names in military history, this new book re-examines the crucial issues and debates of the D-Day campaign. It tackles a range of core topics, placing them in their current historiographical context, to present new and...

This is the first book in English to examine the reconstruction of Japan's bombed cities after World War II. Five case studies (of Tokyo, Hiroshima, Osaka, Okinawa, and Nagaoka) are framed by broader essays on the evolution of Japanese planning and...

List of Maps and Illustrations - List of Abbreviations - Preface - Introduction - The Outbreak of War - The September Campaign in Poland - The Partition of Poland - The Underground under German and Soviet Occupation - Polish Government and Army in France...

Many books have been written about World War II, but this one is a little different. It looks at the war from the standpoint of a young boy just out of high school. He soon learned that in wartime, your life is on the line and it is the luck of the draw...

Made up of men from Iowa, Minnesota and South Dakota, the 34th Infantry "Red Bull" Division was the first American division to sail for European Service in World War II. This is the account of one of these men, Ralph B. Schaps, a common soldier who saw...

The New Far East is a book written by Thomas F. Millard that explores the new position of Japan and its influence on solving the Far Eastern question. The book provides an in-depth analysis of Japan's political, economic, and social developments in the...

""Patrollers of Palestine"" is a historical account written by Haskett Smith about the British Mandate in Palestine during the 1920s and 1930s. The book focuses on the role of the British police force, known as the Palestine Police, in maintaining order...

What, exactly, does one mean when idealizing tolerance as a solution to cultural conflict? This book examines a wide range of young adult texts, both fiction and memoir, representing the experiences of young adults during WWII and the Holocaust.

This book offers insights into the typically overlooked perspectives of children and children's culture in Europe, North America and the Global South, and Australia during the period around the First World War, engaging with developments in Children's...

Originally published in 1988, The Burden of German History 1919-45 examines the vast literature surrounding Weimar years and the National Socialist tragedy, daunting even for the specialist historian or political scientist. The essays included in this...

That America was drawn into the Vietnam War by the French has been recognized, but rarely explored. This book analyzes the years from 1945 with the French military reconquest of Vietnam until 1963 with the execution of the French-endorsed dictator, Ngo...

This book explains how the failure of intelligence in five important battles in World War II had decisive results. It helps Americans to persuade that so long as there is any danger of future wars, the United States must have a strong intelligence...

Of the legion of books on the Second World War, few have examined the conduct of the war on a comparative basis. In this book, Alan F. Wilt looks at the strategic decision making in Germany and Great Britain from the top down, at Hitler and Churchill and...

Reading Vietnam amid the War on Terror argues that the examination of contemporary American war narratives can lead to newfound understandings of American literature, history, and national purpose. The book contends that these narratives trouble not only...

British Images of Germany: Admiration, Antagonism & Ambivalence, 1860-1914 is the first full-length cultural history of Britain's relationship with Germany and the Germans in the key period before the First World War. Representing a recent...

The Good War tackles the issue of NATO in Afghanistan, exploring NATO's evolution in the 1990s and blending NATO's transformation from a reactive defense organization into a pro-active risk manager with the ethic of liberalism. It raises questions, such...

This book presents a unique insight into an extraordinary period of European history that had far-reaching significance for British cinema andfor the way history itselfis represented. The work collected in this volume draws from the best knowledge,...

 From images of jubilant mothers offering the Nazi salute, to Eva Braun and Magda Goebbels, women in Hitler's Germany and their role as supporters and guarantors of the Third Reich continue to exert a particular fascination. This account moves away...

The Deserters is a book written by George C. Jenks and published in 1911. It is a historical account of the American Civil War, focusing on the experiences of soldiers who deserted from both the Union and Confederate armies. The book explores the reasons...

The Electromagnet and Electromagnetic Mechanism is a book written by Silvanus Phillips Thompson in 1891. The book is a comprehensive study of electromagnetism and electromagnetic mechanisms, and it covers the principles and applications of these...

The Dry Dock Of A Thousand Wrecks is a novel written by Philip I. Roberts and published in 1912. The story takes place in a small coastal town in England, where a young man named John Stuart arrives to work at the local shipyard. As he begins to settle...

Mars And Its Canals, written by Percival Lowell and first published in 1911, is a scientific exploration of the planet Mars. Lowell was a prominent astronomer and dedicated much of his career to studying Mars, and this book is the culmination of his...

""History Of The War In The Peninsula And In The South Of France V2: From The Year 1807 To The Year 1814"" is a historical account of the Peninsular War and the South of France during the years 1807 to 1814. The book is written by W. F. P. Napier and was...

How did the Battle of Britain as it is celebrated today, acquire its hallowed status in British popular memory? Officially recognized as a decisive event in March 1941 by Britain's Air Ministry, Hitler's decision in September 1940 to postpone the...

In the aftermath of the Holocaust, Jewish historian Zosa Szajkowski stole tens of thousands of documents from France and sold them to libraries in the United States. To understand why he did it, Leff takes us "backstage" at the archives and reveals the...