Second World War Books

This book explores museum crises. Through an investigation into the experience of the Imperial War Museum during the Second World War era, 1933-1950, it considers how crises disrupt museums and the contrasting defensive and revolutionary strategies which...

Frank Knox served as Secretary of the Navy during some of the most eventful years in U.S. naval history, his tenure coinciding with a number of dramas such as the innovative 1940 bases-for-destroyers initiative (which he conceptualized prior to entering...

This book traces how Gottfried Feder and Fritz Todt made technology essential to the Nazi 'world view'. They groomed engineers with a racist technical ideology that prepared them to later supervise slave labor and the Holocaust. Their concepts evolved...

This book discusses the issues underlying contemporary Holocaust fiction. Using Gillian Rose's theory of Holocaust piety, it argues that, rather than enhancing our understanding of the Holocaust, contemporary fiction has instead become overly focused on...

Philosophy typically ignores biographical, historical, and cultural aspects of theoriss' lives  in an attempt to take a supposedly abstract and objective view of their work. This book makes some new conclusions about Arendt's theory by...

This book focuses on the social voids that were the result of occupation, genocide, mass killings, and population movements in Europe during and after the Second World War. Historians, sociologists, and anthropologists adopt comparative perspectives...

This book takes a timely look at histories of radical Jewish movements, their modes of Holocaust memorialisation, and their relationships with broader anti-colonial and anti-racist struggles. Its primary focus is Australia, where Jewish antifascism was a...

Margarete Susman was among the great Jewish women philosophers of the twentieth century, and largely unknown to many today. This book presents, for the first time in English, six of her important essays along with an introduction about her life and work...

This book discusses the merits of the theory of agonistic memory in relation to the memory of war. After explaining the theory in detail it provides two case studies, one on war museums in contemporary Europe and one on mass graves exhumations, which...

During the final years of the Second World War, a decisive change took place in the Italian left, as the Italian Communist Party (PCI) rose from clandestinity and recast itself as a mass, patriotic force committed to building a new democracy. This book...

This book, part media history and part group biography, tells the story of the BBC's attempts to reach out to listeners in Nazi Germany at a time when Anglo-German relations were particularly strained. Who were the individuals behind the microphone,...

This book serves as a critical resource for educators across various roles and contexts who are interested in Holocaust education that is both historically sound and practically relevant. As a collection, it pulls together a diverse group of scholars to...

This book discusses the impact of war on the complex interactions between various actors involved in justice: individuals and social groups on the one hand and 'the justice system' (police, judiciary and professionals working in the prison service) on...

This book offers the first in-depth intellectual and cultural history of British subversive propaganda during the Second World War. Focussing on the Political Warfare Executive (PWE), it tells the story of British efforts to undermine German morale and...

This book presents a selection of the newest research on themes amplified by the sixth annual Beyond Camps and Forced Labour conference on the post-Holocaust period, including 'displaced persons', reception and resettlement, exiles and refugees, trials...

This handbook is the most comprehensive and up-to-date single volume on the history and memory of the Holocaust in Britain. It traces the complex relationship between Britain and the destruction of Europe's Jews, from societal and political responses to...

This book investigates the memory of the Holocaust in Sweden and concentrates on early initiatives to document and disseminate information about the genocide during the late 1940s until the early 1960s. As the first collection of testimonies and efforts...

This book examines works of four German-Jewish scholars who, in their places of exile, sought to probe the pathology of the Nazi mind: Wilhelm Reich's The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933), Erich Fromm's Escape from Freedom (1941), Siegfried...

This book is the first collection of multi-disciplinary research on the experience of Italian-Jewish musicians and composers in Fascist Italy. Drawing together seven diverse essays from both established and emerging scholars across a range of fields,...

The book assembles case studies on the human dimension of the Holocaust as illuminated in the academic work of preeminent Holocaust scholar Deborah Dwork, the founding director of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, home of the first...

Designated as a light truck, the Jeep was the primary four-wheel drive vehicle for the U.S. Army during WWII. The Jeep's design owed a great deal to Karl Probst, a freelance designer employed by the American Bantam Car Co. Probst's prototype "Blitz...

Bwana, There's a Body in the Bath!By Peter Whitehead with Tony ParkBorn in Shanghai and shipped to England as a child, Peter Whitehead then made his way to Australia, solo, at the age of 13 in 1938, in order to save his family money. Alone and...

The Cherry Tree Weeps for Me: A Quest for The Dawn of Peace chronicles one man's lifelong pursuit of peace before and after the Pacific War. Takashi Komatsu's incredible story is told alongside Japan's pre- and post-WWII history and the country's...

This book is a study of Adolf Hitler in his role as military commander and strategist from the beginning of the Second World War until the end of 1942, examining in detail the campaign in southern Russia that year.

ESCAPE FROM LITHUANIAIn 1933, Lili Hriskevicius Tremblay was born into a near dreamlike existence. She came from one of the wealthiest families in Lithuania and lived in a mansion on her family's thousand-acre estate. She lacked few luxuries; however,...

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This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format...

Belevenissen van een tiener tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog in Deventer.De 90-jarige Han van Nijen bezoekt in 2019 zijn ouderlijk huis aan de Diepenveenseweg te Deventer. Dit bezoek maakt herinneringen los die de lezer een uitstekend beeld geven van het...

La campagna combattuta in Italia dal settembre 1943 al maggio 1945 tra l'esercito tedesco ed i suoi avversari angloamericani è stata tra le più dure della Seconda Guerra mondiale. L'invasione di quello che Churchill aveva definito il ventre molle...

La notte del 8-9 novembre 1941 si verificò quella che, assieme alla Battaglia di Capo Matapan, fu la maggiore sconfitta della Marina italiana nella Seconda Guerra mondiale. Ciò avvenne a sud delle coste meridionali della Calabria quando, un convoglio di...

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Herold zu Moschdehner war Offizier im zweiten Weltkrieg und diente an vorderster Front. Er ist für seinen Einsatz hochdekoriert worden. Ein Veteran des Zweiten Weltkrieges, der abwechselnd im Heer, in der Luftwaffe und der Kriegsmarine eingesetzt wurde...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft - Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Note: 1,3, Universität Paderborn (Institut für Germanistik und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: U-Bootkrieg und...

The Second World War is omnipresent in contemporary memory debates. As the war fades from living memory, this study is the first to systematically analyze how Second World War museums allow prototypical visitors to comprehend and experience the past. It...

Here is a report-in pictures and in words-of exactly what happened to U.S. troops during the bitterest phases of the WWII Italian campaign. An excellent, richly illustrated, account of the bloodiest phase of the Italian campaign.This report is not based...

The Official Chronology of the U.S. Navy in World War II, published in 1999 and updated here in a new format and with a complete index of all ships mentioned in the text (absent from the 1999 edition), is the authoritative resource on the war at sea...

Back to Mandalay, first published in 1951, is noted correspondent Lowell Thomas's engaging account of the Burma Campaign in World War II. Led by British General Orde Wingate, the book describes the formation of the Chindits - troops specializing in...

The Secret War Against Japan, by Colonel Allison W. Ind of the United States Army, is the dramatic accounting of the principal activities of the AIB - the Allied Intelligence Bureau - a group of British, Australian, Dutch, and American clandestine...

Normandy is indelible in accounts of WWII, and scribes often overlook the invasion of Southern France. Prior to WWII, the northern shores of the Mediterranean were where titled barons of Europe and the rich or famous from America often sought refuge. In...

Using a vast array of official documents secured at the highest levels of the US Government, official US Senate historian and history professor Charles Tansill delves deep into the origins of American involvement in the Second World War, and comes to a...

In 1943, following the Armistice in Italy, many Prisoners of War were released by their guards but found themselves fugitives in a country over-run by the Germans. One such prisoner was known in Italy as Luigi. Realising that the Allies were not yet in...

Step into the epic saga of D-Day, one of the most defining moments of the 20th century, with the captivating book bundle, "D-Day Chronicles: Normandy's Legacy." Immerse yourself in the riveting tales of courage, sacrifice, and strategic brilliance that...

Are you interested in learning more about the two world wars that shaped the modern world? Do you want to explore the causes, battles, and outcomes of World War I and II, and the interconnectedness of these conflicts? If so, our book bundle, "World War I...

Before there was the CIA, there was the OSS. The places where they trained for their dangerous mission are now national parks. This is an official history prepared by the National Park Service of the United States.