Modern warfare Books
Brill A World at War, 1911-1949: Explorations in the Cultural History of War
Book SynopsisIn A World At War, 1911-1949, leading and emerging scholars of the cultural history of the two world wars begin to break down the traditional barriers between the historiographies of the two conflicts, identifying commonalities as well as casting new light on each as part of a broader mission, in honour of Professor John Horne, to expand the boundaries of academic exploration of warfare in the 20th century. Utilizing techniques and approaches developed by cultural historians of the First World War, this volume showcases and explores four crucial themes relating to the socio-cultural attributes and representation of war that cut across both the First and Second World Wars: cultural mobilization, the nature and depiction of combat, the experience of civilians under fire, and the different meanings of victory and defeat. Contributors are: Annette Becker, Robert Dale, Alex Dowdall, Robert Gerwarth, John Horne, Tomás Irish, Heather Jones, Alan Kramer, Edward Madigan, Anthony McElligott, Michael S. Neiberg, John Paul Newman, Catriona Pennell, Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses, Daniel Todman, and Jay Winter. See inside the book.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction Catriona Pennell and Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses Part 1: Mobilizing Minds 1 Cultural Mobilization: Henry Moore and the Two World Wars J.M. Winter 2 Petitioning the World: Intellectuals and Cultural Mobilization in the Great War Tomás Irish 3 ‘German Servicemen See Europe’: Cultural Mobilization of Troops on the Aegean ‘Quiet Front’ Anthony McElligott Part 2: Soldiering: Experience and Representation 4 The Sharp End: Witnessing, Perpetrating, and Suffering Violence in 20th Century Wars Alan Kramer 5 The Isle of Saints and Soldiers: The Evolving Image of the Irish Combatant, 1914–1918 Heather Jones and Edward Madigan 6 “For What and For Whom Were We Fighting?” Red Army Soldiers, Combat Motivation and Survival Strategies on the Eastern Front in the Second World War Robert Dale Part 3: Civilians under Fire 7 Against Civilians: Atrocities, Extermination, and Genocide from One World War to the Other, 1942/44–1914 Annette Becker 8 Mobility and Immobility in Civilian Experiences of the First World War: Refugees and Occupied Populations in Europe, 1914–1918 Alex Dowdall 9 Occupation, Memory, and Cultural Demobilization: Paris as Case Study Michael S. Neiberg Part 4: Victory and Defeat 10 Post-wars and Violence: Europe between 1918 and the Later 1940s Robert Gerwarth 11 A Croat Iliad? Miroslav Krleža and the Refractions of Victory and Defeat in Central Europe John Paul Newman 12 “The Worst Disaster”: British Reactions to the Fall of Singapore Daniel Todman A World at War: 1911–1949: Conclusion John Horne Bibliography Index
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Brill On Military Memoirs: A Quantitative Comparison of International Afghanistan War Autobiographies, 2001-2010
Book SynopsisWinner of the Caforio prize for the best book in armed forces and civil-military relations published between 2015 and 2016 In On Military Memoirs Esmeralda Kleinreesink offers insight into military books: who were their writers and publishers, what were their plots, and what motives did their authors have for writing them. Every Afghanistan war autobiography published in the US, the UK, Germany, Canada and the Netherlands between 2001 and 2010 is compared quantitatively and qualitatively. On Military Memoirs shows that soldier-authors are a special breed; that self-published books still cater to different markets than traditionally published ones; that cultural differences are clearly visible between warrior nations and non-warrior nations; that not every contemporary memoir is a disillusionment story; and that writing is serious business for soldiers wanting to change the world. The book provides an innovative example of how to use interdisciplinary, mixed-method, cross-cultural research to analyse egodocuments.Trade Review“innovative, refreshing, and ground breaking [...] a well-researched book with a convincing theoretical framework and insightful experiences, which can only be recommended to anyone interested in knowing the real life of military personnel.” From the jury report of the Caforio Award, June 2017. “This contribution to the literature on military writing is uniquely relevant and valuable.” Kate Hendricks Thomas, Charleston Southern University. In: Journal of Veterans Studies, Vol. 2, No. 1 (2017), p. 122-126. “In On Military Memoirs Dr. Esmeralda Kleinreesink provides the most extensive study ever published on autobiographical books written by soldiers. The author provides her readers with valuable insight on how soldiers experience their service, mainly in Afghanistan. On Military Memoirs is a book that should be on the shelf of every scholar and officer interested in military studies and be taught at every military academy and program on military studies.” Professor Yagil Levy, The Open University of IsraelTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface Glossary List of Figures and Tables PART I: SETTING THE STAGE Chapter 1 Introduction: Who, What and Why Chapter 2 Theory: Egodocuments and the Military Chapter 3 Methodology: Quantitative & Qualitative Methods for Autobiographical Research Chapter 4 Context: The Missions in Afghanistan PART II: RESULTS Chapter 5 Who Writes and Publishes Soldiers’ Stories? Chapter 6 What Do Soldier-Authors Write About? Chapter 7 Why Do Soldier-Authors Write? Chapter 8 Conclusion: Profiling the Soldier-Author Chapter 9 Reflections: Some Personal Notes on How to Proceed Chapter 10 The Fifty-Four Books Appendices References Author Index Subject Index
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Brill The Representation of External Threats: From the Middle Ages to the Modern World
Book SynopsisIn The Representation of External Threats, Eberhard Crailsheim and María Dolores Elizalde present a collection of articles that trace the phenomenon of external threats in a multitude of settings across Asia, America, and Europe. The scope ranges from military threats against the Byzantine rulers of the 7th century to the perception of cultural and economic threats in the late 19th century Atlantic, and includes conceptual threats to the construction of national histories. Focussing on the different ways in which such threats were socially constructed, the articles offer a variety of perspectives and interdisciplinary methods to understand the development and representations of external threats, concentrating on the effect of 'threat communication' for societies and political actors. Contributors are Anna Abalian, Vladimir Belous, Eberhard Crailsheim, María Dolores Elizalde, Rodrigo Escribano Roca, Simon C. Kemper, Irena Kozmanová, David Manzano Cosano, Federico Niglia, Derek Kane O’Leary, Alexandr Osipian, Pedro Ponte e Sousa, Theresia Raum, Jean-Noël Sanchez, Marie Schreier, Stephan Steiner, Srikanth Thaliyakkattil, Ionut Untea and Qiong Yu.Trade Review"...this reader could be recommended as a topic-specific introduction to global history. [...] To be sure, the volume is a valuable undertaking for interdisciplinary research, as it brings this very vocabulary and theoretical models into historical research – or to put it in idiosyncratic German: It has a high potential of “Anschlussfähigkeit”. [...] its authors offer new perspectives on how to bring concepts and theories from political science, sociology, and ‘constructivism’ into the study of history. That is the pioneering ambition and the great achievement of this book. It should inspire and stimulate future endeavours and theory-testing." Thomas Kolnberger in: H-Soz-Kult, 10.11.2020, DOI: www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-49809. "Der vorliegende Band mit seinen 19 Beiträgen aus 12 Ländern zwischen Spanien und Russland, zwischen Singapur und China, der seit 2016aus einem spanischen Marie-Curie-Projekt der EU zur Kolonialgeschichte der Philippinen hervorgegangen ist, zeichnet sich demgegenüber durch überzeugende Kohärenz aus. Denn er versteht es, den allgemeinen Befund, dass Identität durch Alterität oder durch Othering zustande kommt, im Sinne einer Kulturgeschichte des Politischen als Bedrohung zu konkretisieren und zu operationalisieren. [...] Im Gegensatz zu vergleichbaren Sammelbänden entwickelt dieser dank seiner gezielten Engführung durch Autoren und Herausgeber insgesamt ein differenziertes Instrumentarium zur Bearbeitung des historischen und politikwissenschaftlichen Problems der Wahrnehmung äußerer Bedrohung." Wolfgang Reinhard in Zeitschrift für historische Forschung 47 (2020) 1, 79-80Table of ContentsContents List of Illustations Notes on Contributors Introduction Eberhard Crailsheim and María Dolores Elizalde Part 1 Conceptual Approaches 1 Representations of External Threats: Approaches and Concepts for Historical Research Eberhard Crailsheim 2 The Opposition of Own/Alien as a Source of the External Threat: Reflections on Supra-State Sovereignization Politics and 19th-Century Pan-Slavism Vladimir Belous Part 2: Threat Communication 3 Deus Adiuta Romanis: Threat and Threat Communication in the Eastern Roman Empire Theresia Raum 4 Scottish Interlopers and Indigenous Resistance: Threats to the Spanish Empire in Late 17th-Century Panama Marie Schreier 5 The Umbilical Cord of Threats: the Securitization of Infidel Attacks on the Early Modern Banten Sultanate, Indonesia Simon C. Kemper Part 3: Representation of the Internal/External Other 6 The Enemy Within: ‘Gypsies’ as EX/INternal Threat in the Habsburg Monarchy and in the Holy Roman Empire, 15th-18th Century Stephan Steiner 7 Performing the Ottoman Threat: Visual and Discursive Representations of Armenian Merchants in Early Modern Poland and Moldavia Alexandr Osipian 8 The ‘Pale of Settlement’: a Particular Form of Separation of the ‘Own’ and the ‘Alien’ in the Russian Empire Anna Abalian Part 4: The Creation of Threats in the Old World 9 Back to the Huns: the German Threat in the European Collective Imagination, 1527-1914 Federico Niglia 10 External Authority or External Threat? Thomas Hobbes and the Politically Troubled Times of Early Modern England Ionut Untea 11 Corruption as an External Threat? Anti-Corruption Legislation During the Dutch ‘Great Assembly’ (1651) Irena Kozmanová Part 5: Contested Conceptions in the Atlantic World 12 Translatio Imperii: the ‘Enmification’ of the United States in the Historical Imagination of Spain and Great Britain, a Comparative View (1850-1898) Rodrigo Escribano Roca 13 Jared Sparks and Constructing the American Archive Derek Kane O’Leary 14 Portuguese Foreign Relations in the 19th Century: the Role of External Threats Pedro Ponte e Sousa Part 6: Threats in the Colonial Context of the Pacific World 15 A Prismatic Glance at One Century of Threats on the Philippine Colony Jean-Noël Sanchez 16 Strategies Against External Threats to Spanish Sovereignty in a Colonial Territory: The Case of the Philippines in the 19th Century María Dolores Elizalde 17 The Imperial Enemies of Spain in Hispanic Oceania: the Case of Japan David Manzano Cosano Part 7: Perceptions of the Other: Chinese-European Encounters 18 Securitization of Christianity during the Period of the Qing Dynasty Srikanth Thaliyakkattil 19 The Arrogant Chinese: Representation of the Chinese and Chinese Civilisation in Britain’s Travel Writings in the 19th Century Qiong Yu Index
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Brill Napoleon and the Operational Art of War: Essays in Honor of Donald D. Horward. (Revised and Extended Edition)
Book SynopsisIn this revised and extended edition of Napoleon and the Operational Art of War, the leading scholars of Napoleonic military history provide the most authoritative analysis of Napoleon’s battlefield success and ultimate failure. Napoleon’s development and mastery of the operational art of warfare is revealed as each chapter analyzes one Napoleonic war or major campaign of a war. To achieve this, the essays conform to the common themes of Napoleon’s planning, his command and control, his execution of plans, and the response of his adversaries. Napoleon's sea power and the British response to the French challenge at sea is also investigated. Overall, this volume reflects the finest scholarship and cutting-edge research to be found in Napoleonic military history. Contributors include Jonathan Abel, Robert M. Citino, Phillip R. Cuccia, Huw J. Davies, Mark T. Gerges; John H. Gill; Jordan R. Hayworth, Kenneth G. Johnson, Michael V. Leggiere, Kevin D. McCranie, Alexander Mikaberidze, Frederick C. Schneid, John Severn, Dennis Showalter, Geoffrey Wawro, and John F. Weinzierl. See inside the book.
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Brill A History of Military Morals: Killing the Innocent
Book SynopsisThe history of noncombatant immunity is well established. What is less understood is how militaries have rationalized violating this immunity. This book traces the development of how militaries have rationalized the killing of the innocent from the thirteenth century onward. In the process, this historiography shows how we have arrived at the ascendant convention that assumes militaries should not intentionally kill the innocent. Furthermore, it shows how moral arguments about the permissibility of killing the innocent are largely adaptations to material changes in how wars are fought, whether through technological innovations or changes in institutional structures.Table of ContentsList of Figures Introduction 1 Introduction 2 Theory of Moral Development 3 Methodology 4 Overview of Chapters PART 1: Killing the Innocent: Three Discursive Traditions from the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries 1 The Origins of Double Effect: The Scholastic Tradition 1 Recovering the Primitive Christian Tradition 2 Before Double Effect 3 The Rise of Double Effect 4 Killing the Innocent 5 Killing the Innocent after Aquinas 6 Repurposing Double Effect in the Sixteenth Century 7 Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Scholastics on Siege Warfare 8 English and Scottish Protestants 9 Conclusion 2 Martialists: Soldiers and Tacticians 1 Introduction 2 Early Martialists 3 Seventeenth-Century Martialists 4 Shifts in the Martialist Tradition 5 Conclusion 3 Humanists and Republicans 1 Introduction 2 Machiavelli 3 Erasmus 4 Gentili 5 Grotius 6 Pufendorf 7 Jeremy Taylor 8 George Dawson 9 Christian Wolff 10 Vattel 11 Conclusion PART 2: The Nineteenth Century 4 Killing Noncombatants in the Nineteenth Century 1 Introduction 2 Counting Casualties 3 Noncombatants 4 Sovereignty and Self-Preservation 5 Utilitarianism 6 The Link between Philosophical Utilitarianism and Military Necessity 7 Conclusion 5 Deliberately Targeting Noncombatants 1 Introduction 2 Enduring the Hardships of War: Laying Waste 3 Laying Waste and the Laws of War 4 Starvation and Blockades 5 Sieges 6 Siege and the Laws of War 7 Reprisal, Retaliation, Retorsion 8 Change in Norms 9 The Spatial Dimension of Noncombatant Death 10 Noncombatant Death in the Early Twentieth Century 11 Military Manuals 12 Conclusion PART 3: The Twentieth Century: Aerial Bombing and a Shift in Norms 6 New Possibilities and Problems: Aeronauts, Inventors, and Future-War Fiction on Aerial Bombing 1 Early Experiments 2 Deterrence, Annihilation, or Nonfactor? 3 Future-War Fiction 4 Conclusion 7 Interwar Approaches to Bombing: Two Discursive Traditions 1 Introduction 2 Interwar Period Debates on Aerial Bombing 3 International Liberals: Regulation and Disarmament 4 Bombing Realists 5 Strategic versus Terror Bombing 6 Conclusion 8 The Return to Intention: Post World War I 1 Introduction 2 German Guilt 3 The Laws of Humanity and Intentional Harm 4 The Return of the Scholastics 5 The Rediscovery of Vitoria and Suarez 6 Catholics against Bombing 7 Conclusion 9 Postscript: Intention in the Twenty-First Century 1 Introduction 2 Intention and Folk Psychology 3 Are Intentions Relevant for Twenty-First Century War? Bibliography of Primary Sources 445 Prior to the Sixteenth Century The Sixteenth Century The Seventeenth Century The Eighteenth Century The Nineteenth Century Index
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Brill Dutch Military Thought, 1919-1939: A Small Neutral State’s Visions of Modern War
Book SynopsisTotal War was the core concept around which military thought revolved during the interwar period. Total War was also a multifaceted, confusing concept that affected both civilian and military life. How did small states conceive of their place in such a destructive war? Did they close their eyes, relying on international law to protect them, or did they seek creative solutions? This book examines how Dutch officers, in the shadow of three great powers, considered their military future, analysing the impact of European military ideas on a small state. This approach offers a new perspective on interwar dealing with assumptions about a new world war.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Introduction 1 Setting the Scene 1 Small States in Interwar Europe 2 Dutch Military Publications 3 The Dutch Daily Press 4 The State of the State 5 Dutch Historiography on the Interwar Years 6 Setup and Structure 2 A Strong, Resilient People: Pieter Willem Scharroo 1 An Engineer Officer in Politics and Sports 2 Scharroo’s Publications: Contours of Total War, 1919–1922 3 Scharroo’s Commitment to Sports and Education, 1914–1922 4 Resilience and Youth in Public Debates, 1919–1921 5 The Roots of Scharroo’s Thinking: People’s Strength (volkskracht) 6 Untiring Perseverance, 1915–1939 3 The Human Factor: Hendrik Cornelis Rouffaer 1 An Unreliable Army? 2 The Floor is Rouffaer’s, 1925 3 The Shock of 1918, the Rich Legacy of 1919–1920 4 From Ideas to Practice: Psychotechnics, 1920–1930 5 The Dutch Classics: Steinmetz and Gunning 6 Morale in Combat Manuals 7 War on the Horizon, 1933–1938 4 League of Nations, Neutrality and Disarmament: Abraham Johannes Maas 1 Unilateral National Disarmament? 2 Maas against Disarmament and for the League of Nations 3 The Voice of the Law, 1925–1927 4 The Voice of the Spirit, 1924–1928 5 Maas’ Riposte, 1929 6 Fighting Disarmament, 1925–1929 7 Public Opinion Counted 5 Economic and Industrial War Preparation: Doe van den Berg 1 Van den Berg Puts Economic War Preparation on the Agenda, 1925 2 Fraternal Support, 1928 3 The First Steps, 1930–1931 4 Renewed Attention in the Press and in Politics, 1934–1935 5 From Theory to Practice, 1936–1938 6 Implementing the New System, 1939–1940 6 The Defence Industry 1 The Dutch Defence Industry 2 Artillerie Inrichtingen 3 Fokker 4 Koolhoven 5 Aviolanda 6 HIH Siderius 7 Nedinsco 8 Signaal and Nedalo 9 Philips 10 DAF 11 Research for the War Effort 7 Gas War: Schelte Schilderman 1 The Gas School 2 Schilderman and Chemical Warfare, 1928 3 Schilderman’s Publicity Offensive, 1931–1937 4 The Science of Combat Gases, 1923–1939 5 Combat Gases and International Law, 1899–1932 8 No Trespassing! Dutch Military Strength as a Guarantee for Peace in Europe: Willem Joost van de Woestijne 1 A Social-Democrat Against Disarmament 2 Social-Democrats and the Defence of the Country, 1928–1936 3 Van de Woestijne Advocates Defence of the Country, 1929–1931 4 The Strategic Vulnerability of Limburg, 1918–1931 5 The Southern Netherlands Raises its Voice, 1932–1934 9 Vulnerability Exposed, 1934: Banse, Baldwin and Von Epp 1 Strategic Vulnerability 2 Ewald Banse 3 Stanley Baldwin 4 Franz von Epp 10 Danger From the Air: Mathieu Gemmeke 1 Gemmeke’s Appeal, 1933–1934 2 Viewpoints on Bombing Civilians in the Netherlands, 1922–1930 3 Johan Zegers: an Innovative Voice from the Luchtvaartafdeling, 1929–1936 4 Air Protection in the Making, 1926–1936 5 Air Protection Takes Shape, 1936–1939 6 Abyssinia, Spain and Poland: Prophets and Practice, 1937–1939 11 On the Verge of War: Michael Rudolph Calmeijer 1 Imminent War? 2 Modern War, 1930–1935 3 Opinion Formation on Modern Mechanized Warfare, 1927–1936 4 Searching Beyond the Obvious 5 Calmeijer Goes to Germany, 1937–1939 6 Liddell Hart in the Netherlands 7 The Use of Parachutists Conclusion 1 From Theory to Practical Application 2 Three Key Themes 2.1 The Totality of War 2.2 The Strategic Assault 2.3 Armed Forces – People – Government Short Biographies Bibliography
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Ckm Forlag Frontschwein
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Vaktel Forlag Arnhem 1944: An Epic Battle Revisited: Vol. 2: The Lost Victory. September-October 1944
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HarperCollins Publishers Mapping the Second World War The history of the
Book SynopsisFollow the conflict of the Second World War from 1939 to 1945 in this unique volume, published in association with Imperial War Museums, London, featuring historical maps and photographs from their archives, and fascinating commentary from an expert historian.Trade Review‘Beautifully produced book that will interest military historians and map lovers alike’ - Who Do You Think You Are magazine ‘Expert commentary and a fresh perspective on the events of the war’ - Family Tree Magazine ‘Mapping the Second World War draws on the remarkable maps of IWM’s unparalleled archive to offer a new perspective on the conflict’s key moments’ - Antiques Diary
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Headline Publishing Group Last Witnesses Hurricane
Book SynopsisThe Hurricane served in every theatre during the Second World War as a fighter, night fighter, ground attack aircraft and even on board ship guarding vital convoys. This book offers first-hand accounts of these gallant pilots form not only a history of the aircraft, but also a tribute to the many friends they lost in combat.
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Headline Publishing Group World War II The Essential History Volume 2 From
Book SynopsisA concise history of the Second World War. Table of ContentsOperation 'Husky': Invasion of Sicily • Italy: Invasion and Surrender • Operation 'Cartwheel': War for New Guinea • Island Hopping in the Pacific: Gilbert and Marshall Islands • The Battle for Monte Cassino • D-Day • Battle for Normandy • The V-weapons Campaign • The Marianas: Defence to the Death • Operation 'Bagration' • Breakout: Operation 'Cobra' • The end of Vichy France: Operation 'Dragoon' • The Liberation of Paris • Operation 'Market Garden' • The Recapture of the Philippines • The Battle of the Bulge • Soviet Advance on Germany: Vistula-Oder Operation • Iwo Jima • The Fire-bombing of Tokyo • The Western Advance in Germany: From the Rhine to the Elbe • Okinawa • Liberation of the Camps • Victory in Burma • Battle for Berlin • Victory in Italy • The German Surrender • The Atomic Bombs • The Japanese Surrender.
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ABC-CLIO British Strategy and Politics during the Phony War
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Orion Publishing Co Hitlers War
Book SynopsisThis is the book that answers the question: Could Germany have won World War Two?
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Hachette Books Their Backs Against the Sea
Book SynopsisThe battle of Saipan lasted twenty-five hellish days in the summer of 1944, and the stakes couldn''t have been higher. If Japan lost possession of the island, all hope for victory would be lost. For the Americans, the island was the only obstacle between them and the Japanese mainland. The outcome of the war in the Pacific was in the balance.Their Backs against the Sea fuses fresh interviews, oral histories, and unpublished accounts into a fast-paced narrative of the Battle of Saipan. Combining grunt''s-view grit with big-picture panorama (and one of the ugliest inter-service controversies of the war), this is the definitive dramatic story of one of the war''s toughest and most overlooked battles- and an inspiring chronicle of some of the greatest acts of valor in American military history.
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Hachette Books Beyond the Call
Book SynopsisThey marched under the heat with 40-pound rucksacks on their backs. They fired M16s out of the windows of military vehicles, defending their units in deadly firefights. And they did things that their male counterparts could never do--gather intelligence on the Taliban from the women of Afghanistan. As females they could circumvent Muslim traditions and cultivate relationships with Afghan women who were bound by tradition not to speak with American military men. And their work in local villages helped empower Afghan women, providing them with the education and financial tools necessary to rebuild their nation--and the courage to push back against the insurgency that wanted to destroy it. For the women warriors of the military''s Female Engagement Teams (FET) it was dangerous, courageous, and sometimes heartbreaking work.Beyond the Call follows the groundbreaking journeys of three women as they first fight military brass and culture and then enemy fire and tradition.
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Alfred A. Knopf The War An Intimate History An Intimate History
Book SynopsisThe vivid voices that speak from these pages are not those of historians or scholars. They are the voices of ordinary men and women who experienced—and helped to win—the most devastating war in history, in which between 50 and 60 million lives were lost.Focusing on the citizens of four towns— Luverne, Minnesota; Sacramento, California; Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama;—The War follows more than forty people from 1941 to 1945. Woven largely from their memories, the compelling, unflinching narrative unfolds month by bloody month, with the outcome always in doubt. All the iconic events are here, from Pearl Harbor to the liberation of the concentration camps—but we also move among prisoners of war and Japanese American internees, defense workers and schoolchildren, and families who struggled simply to stay together while their men were shipped off to Europe, the Pacific, and North Africa.Enriched by maps and hundreds of photograph
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ABC-CLIO The War in North Africa 19401943
Book SynopsisFew of the major campaigns of World War II aroused as much controversy as the War in North Africa, 1940-1943. This book opens with seven historiographical essays that evaluate and critically assess the major contributions to the literature on the War in North Africa.Table of ContentsPreface Narrative and Historiographical Survey Historical Background Sources for Research on the War in North Africa The Desert War, 1940-1942 The Axis Powers in North Africa Montgomery, Alam Halfa, and El Alamein Torch: The Landings in French North Africa The Tunisian Campaign Future Research Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury USA 3pl Cultures in ConflictThe Viet Nam War
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Little, Brown & Company Endgame 1945
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Neville Chamberlain Reputations
Book SynopsisDavid Dutton is Professor of Twentieth-Century British Political History, University of Liverpool, UKTrade Review'Dutton shows a remarkable command of the historiographical thickets, and leads the reader through its labyrinths lucidly and with commendable dry wit.' Times Literary Supplement 'The clarity of Dutton's prose, his adept use of the primary sources, and his command of the secondary literature will impress every reader. Indeed the book is an exemplary historiographical analysis. Dutton's study of Neville Chamberlain and his political career should be made compulsory reading for history undergraduates.' The International History Review
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Basic Books Indias War
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewFinancial Times?s Summer books "Raghavan?s panoramic and richly detailed book deserves the accolades that it is receiving as the most comprehensive account of the subcontinent?s experiences in the second world war. A historian at King?s College London, Raghavan unearths much new detail and displays a masterful grasp of wartime diplomacy and economics." Washington Times "A highly readable account of one of the more complex -- and ignored -- phase of World War II." Library Journal "Raghavan has written what will probably become the standard account of India?s involvement in World War II." Publishers Weekly "India's War provides a much-needed window into the wartime experiences of ordinary Indians. As imperial subjects fighting Nazi tyranny, yet denied freedom themselves, the subalterns of the Indian Army found themselves caught between sovereignty and liberty in unknown lands. In making these forgotten voices heard, Raghavan succeeds admirably." Open Magazine (India) "[Raghavan] is unarguably our finest military historian. Like the best in the genre, he turns the battlefields of the past into pages where we read the backstories of our political existence-- and makes history intimate and immediate." Wall Street Journal "[A]s Mr. Raghavan?s fascinating account of the geopolitics of the war makes clear, there is more at stake in the history of India in World War II than 'rounding out? the story... The history [Raghavan] writes is inspired by the search for a wider horizon for India as a regional superpower beyond the confining frame bequeathed by World War II and the ragged end of British Empire in Asia. It is all the more important and urgent for that." Economist "Raghavan usefully supplies the facts, in charts, figures, maps and details of military operations... He also gives thorough, fascinating and revealing accounts of the economic transformations." Financial Times "A panoramic work, spanning the deliberations of the highest Allied councils of war to the febrile mood on the streets of Kolkata, formerly Calcutta, in the shadow of the Japanese advance... Raghavan?s splendid history is a reminder not just of India?s historic contribution to the defeat of fascism, but also its geopolitical potential throughout the Indo-Pacific." Kirkus Reviews "World War II was a crucible that forged the modern identities of South Asian nations in ways rarely acknowledged since... India's War illuminates that period." Booklist "An illuminating political, sociological, and historical study of India?s role in WWII. Raghavan expertly fills a gap in twentieth-century history and geopolitical collections." Spectator (UK) "Absorbing and important... this rational and detailed book should start a debate." Independent (UK) "Ambitious... Raghavan's study fulfills his mission in presenting readers with intertwined narratives of military campaigns, international strategies, and the rise of the freedom struggle that was to determine the future of the subcontinent." New Indian ExpressTable of Contents1. Politics of War 2. Defence of India 3. Competing Offers 4. Mobilizing India 5. Into Africa 6. The Oil Campaigns 7. Fox Hunting 8. Collapsing Dominoes 9. Coils of War 10. Declarations for India 11. Rumour and Revolt 12. Indian National Armies 13. Allies at War 14. War Economy 15. Around the Mediterranean 16. Preparation 17. Back to Burma 18. Post-war Epilogue: Last Post
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Basic Books What We Knew
Book SynopsisThe horrors of the Nazi regime and the Holocaust still present some of the most disturbing questions in modern history: Why did Hitler''s party appeal to millions of Germans, and how entrenched was anti-Semitism among the population? How could anyone claim, after the war, that the genocide of Europe''s Jews was a secret? Did ordinary non-Jewish Germans live in fear of the Nazi state? In this unprecedented firsthand analysis of daily life as experienced in the Third Reich, What We Knew offers answers to these most important questions. Combining the expertise of Eric A. Johnson, an American historian, and Karl-Heinz Reuband, a German sociologist, What We Knew is the most startling oral history yet of everyday life in theThird Reich.
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Mariner Books Hitlers Furies
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W Foulsham & Co Ltd I Was There to Face the Night of the UBoats When
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc A Short History of World War II
Book SynopsisA Short History of World War II is essentially a military history, but it reaches from the peace settlements of World War I to the drastically altered postwar world of the late 1940''s. Lucidly written and eminently readable, it is factual and accurate enough to satisfy professional historians. A Short History of World War II will appeal equally to the general reader, the veteran who fought in the War, and the student interested in understanding the contemporary political world.
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Hachette Australia Turning Point
Book SynopsisThe Battle for Milne Bay - Japan''s first defeat on land in the Second World War - was a defining moment in the evolution of the indomitable Australian fighting spirit. For the men of the AIF, the militia and the RAAF, it was the turning point in the Pacific, and their finest - though now largely forgotten - hour. Forgotten, until now.In August 1942, Japan''s forces were unstoppable. Having conquered vast swathes of south-east Asia - Malaya, Singapore, the Dutch East Indies - and now invading New Guinea, many feared the Empire of the Rising Sun stood poised to knock down Australia''s northern door.But first they needed Port Moresby. In the still of an August night, Japanese marines sailed quietly into Milne Bay, a long, malaria-ridden dead end at the far eastern tip of Papua, to unleash an audacious pincer movement. Unbeknown to them, however, a secret airstrip had been carved out of a coconut plantation by US Engineers, and a garrison of Australian troops had been established, supported by two locally based squadrons of RAAF Kittyhawks, including the men of the famed 75 Squadron. The scene was set for one of the most decisive and vicious battles of the war.For ten days and nights Australia''s soldiers and airmen fought the elite of Japan''s forces along a sodden jungle track, and forced them back step by muddy, bloody step.In Turning Point, bestselling author Michael Veitch brings to life the incredible exploits and tragic sacrifices of these Australian heroes.Trade ReviewVeitch has done a wonderful job . . . a fast-paced and thrilling tale * Daily Telegraph on Michael Veitch's Barney Greatrex *Veitch has done a wonderful job . . . a fast-paced and thrilling tale * Daily Telegraph on Michael Veitch's Barney Greatrex *should be part of Australian military folklore * Adelaide Advertiser on Michael Veitch's 44 Days *should be part of Australian military folklore * Adelaide Advertiser on Michael Veitch's 44 Days *fascinating . . . Veitch brings the story vividly to life * Sydney Morning Herald on Michael Veitch's Barney Greatrex *fascinating . . . Veitch brings the story vividly to life * Sydney Morning Herald on Michael Veitch's Barney Greatrex *
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Edinburgh University Press War Aims in the Second World War
Book SynopsisThis is the first study of the aims that motivated the major powers - the United States, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, Germany and Japan - to fight in the Second World War. The book shows, in a way that has not previously been attempted, how some war aims were constants that were unlikely to be abandoned except as a result of total defeat while others arose and sometimes declined as a result of the fortunes of war. Fresh light is shed on the wartime transition of the United States and the Soviet Union to superpower status, while the author shows that consistency is most evident in Great Britain, content with the international prewar status quo, and Nazi Germany, intent from the first on destroying it and replacing it with a new order in which all liberal and civilised values would be annihilated.Based largely on published sources, including published documentary material, the aim is to ensure accessibility for a range of readers. The level at which it is pitched, the synthesis of a broad range oTrade ReviewIn this thoughtful analysis Rothwell provides a concise summary of the key belligerents' war aims, something that few other monographs have done ! War Aims is a well written work, based on extensive and thorough grounding in the profuse secondary literature, and is highly recommended. An excellent idea! I know of no single-volume study on the topic. -- Dr David Reynolds, Cambridge Carefully thought-out and well-constructed! I am familiar with Dr Rothwell's work, above all his book on war aims during the First World War, and it is this book that inspires confidence for a similar one on the Second World War. -- Professor Roger Louis, University of Texas War Aims id a well written work, based on extensive and thorough grounding in the profuse secondary literature, and is highly recommended. -- Russell A. Hart, Hawai'i Pacific University The Journal of Military History Both books can be read profitably by any and all students and scholars interested in the unfolding of the Second World War. Each author, in short, can take justifiable pride in his work. -- S. P. Mackenzie, University of South Carolina European History Quarterly In this thoughtful analysis Rothwell provides a concise summary of the key belligerents' war aims, something that few other monographs have done ! War Aims is a well written work, based on extensive and thorough grounding in the profuse secondary literature, and is highly recommended. An excellent idea! I know of no single-volume study on the topic. Carefully thought-out and well-constructed! I am familiar with Dr Rothwell's work, above all his book on war aims during the First World War, and it is this book that inspires confidence for a similar one on the Second World War. War Aims id a well written work, based on extensive and thorough grounding in the profuse secondary literature, and is highly recommended. Both books can be read profitably by any and all students and scholars interested in the unfolding of the Second World War. Each author, in short, can take justifiable pride in his work.Table of ContentsMaps; German war aims map; American war aims map; Soviet war aims map; Japanese war aims map; 1. War aims in modern history; 2. Germany and Italy; 3. Britain and France; 4. The United States; 5. The Soviet Union; 6. Japan and the Grand Allies in East Asia; 7. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press The Holocaust
Book SynopsisThe first anthology to address the relationship between the events of the Nazi genocide and the intellectual concerns of contemporary literary and cultural theory in one substantial and indispensable volume.Trade ReviewA highly intelligent collection of writings ! While some of the pieces have already been published elsewhere their juxtaposition [!] gives them renewed power and provocativeness. This anthology is a source of information, argument and debate that will sustain readers and students of the subject for years to come. An extremely impressive, wide-ranging and timely reader, and an outstanding resource for teaching and studying the Holocaust. -- Dr Robert Eaglestone, Deputy Director, Research Centre for the Holocaust and Twentieth Century History, Royal Holloway, University of London A truly excellent selection of responses to the Holocaust ! exceptional in its ability to conjoin efforts at historical analysis with broader critical and theoretical issues. -- Dominick LaCapra, Cornell University A highly intelligent collection of writings ! While some of the pieces have already been published elsewhere their juxtaposition [!] gives them renewed power and provocativeness. This anthology is a source of information, argument and debate that will sustain readers and students of the subject for years to come. An extremely impressive, wide-ranging and timely reader, and an outstanding resource for teaching and studying the Holocaust. A truly excellent selection of responses to the Holocaust ! exceptional in its ability to conjoin efforts at historical analysis with broader critical and theoretical issues.Table of ContentsThe Holocaust: Theoretical Readings; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; About this Book; Neil Levi and Michael Rothberg, General Introduction: Theory and the Holocaust; I. Theory and Experience; 1. Primo Levi, The Drowned and the Saved; 2. Jean Amery, Resentments; 3. Charlotte Delbo, Days and Memory; 4. Ruth Kluger, The Camps; II. Historicizing the Holocaust?; 5. Jurgen Habermas, On the Public Use of History; 6. Saul Friedlander, The 'Final Solution': On the Unease in Historical Representation; 7. Dan Diner, Historical Understanding and Counterrationality: The Judenrat as Epistemological Vantage; 8. Zygmunt Bauman, The Uniqueness and Normality of the Holocaust; 9. Omer Bartov, The European Imagination in the Age of Total War; 10. Henry Friedlander, The Origins of Nazi Genocide; III. Nazi Culture, Fascism, and Antisemitism; 11. Kenneth Burke, The Rhetoric of Hitler's 'Battle'; 12. Georges Bataille, The Psychological Structure of Fascism; 13. Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno, Elements of Antisemitism; 14. Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, The Fiction of the Political; 15. Moishe Postone, Anti-Semitism and National Socialism; 16. Christopher Browning, Ordinary Men; IV. Race, Gender, and Genocide; 17. Klaus Theweleit, Floods, Bodies, History 18. Gisela Bock, Racism and Sexism in Nazi Germany; 19. Joan Ringelheim, The Unethical and the Unspeakable: Women and the Holocaust; 20. Pascale Rachel Bos, Women and the Holocaust: Analyzing Gender Difference; V. Psychoanalysis, Trauma, and Memory; 21. Cathy Caruth, Trauma and Experience; 22. Dominick LaCapra, Trauma, Absence, Loss; 23. Saul Friedlander, Trauma and Transference; 24. Eric Santner, History Beyond the Pleasure Principle: Some Thoughts on the Representation of Trauma; 25. Dori Laub, Bearing Witness or the Vicissitudes of Listening; VI. Questions of Religion, Ethics, and Justice; 26. Arthur A. Cohen, Thinking the Tremendum; 27. Emil L. Fackenheim, To Mend the World; 28. Emmanuel Levinas, Ethics and Spirit; 29. Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem; 30. Giorgio Agamben, What is a Camp?; 31. Jean-Francois Lyotard, The Differend; 32. Gillian Rose, New Political Theology: Out of Holocaust and Liberation; VII. Literature and Culture after Auschwitz; 33. Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History; 34. Theodor W. Adorno, Cultural Criticism and Society; 35. Theodor W. Adorno, Meditations on Metaphysics; 36. Irving Howe, Writing and the Holocaust; 37. Sigrid Weigel, Non-Philosophical Amazement/Writing in Amazement: Benjamin's Position in the Aftermath of the Holocaust; 38. Maurice Blanchot, The Writing of the Disaster; 39. Jacques Derrida, Schibboleth; 40. Geoffrey Hartman, Language and Culture after the Holocaust; 41. Sidra Dekoven Ezrahi, Representing Auschwitz; VIII. Modes of Narration; 42. Berel Lang, The Moral Space of Figurative Discourse; 43. James E. Young, Writing the Holocaust; 44. Hayden White, The Modernist Event; 45. Michael A. Bernstein, Against Foreshadowing; 46. Lawrence L. Langer, Deep Memory: The Buried Self; 47. Shoshana Felman, The Return of the Voice: Claude Lanzmann's Shoah; IX. Rethinking Visual Culture; 48. Saul Friedlander, Reflections of Nazism; 49. Jean Baudrillard, Holocaust; 50. Andreas Huyssen, Anselm Kiefer: the Terror of History, the Temptation of Myth; 51. Gertrud Koch, The Aesthetic Transformation of the Image of the Unimaginable: Notes on Claude Lanzmann's Shoah; 52. Lilliane Weissberg, In Plain Sight; X. Latecomers: Negative Symbiosis, Postmemory, and Countermemory; 53. Henri Raczymov, Memory Shot Through with Holes; 54. Marianne Hirsch, Mourning and Postmemory; 55. Dan Diner, Negative Symbiosis: Germans and Jews after Auschwitz; 56. James E. Young, The Countermonument: Memory Against Itself in Germany; XI. Uniqueness, Comparison, and the Politics of Memory; 57. Alan Milchman and Alan Rosenberg, Two Kinds of Uniqueness: The Universal Aspects of the Holocaust; 58. Yehuda Bauer, What Was the Holocaust?; 59. Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic; 60. Mahmood Mamdani, Thinking about Genocide; 61. Lilian Friedberg, Dare to Compare: Americanizing the Holocaust; 62. Peter Novick, The Holocaust in American Life; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press Propaganda Censorship and Irish Neutrality in the
Book SynopsisBased upon original research in archives in Ireland, Great Britain, the United States and Canada, this study opens a new page in the history of wartime propaganda and censorshipTrade ReviewNow, for the first time, a detailed and high-quality examination of American and British anti-neutrality propaganda finally exists. Robert Cole's ably written and informative monograph will become a staple reference work for all engaged in researching Irish neutrality during World War II. 'Now, for the first time, a detailed and high-quality examination of American and British anti-neutrality propaganda finally exists. Robert Cole's ably written and informative monograph will become a staple reference work for all engaged in researching Irish neutrality during World War II.' American Historical Review A vital study of propaganda and censorship in the age of mass communications from which historians of several genres will undoutedly profit. -- Mervyn O'Driscoll, University College Cork American Historical Review Now, for the first time, a detailed and high-quality examination of American and British anti-neutrality propaganda finally exists. Robert Cole's ably written and informative monograph will become a staple reference work for all engaged in researching Irish neutrality during World War II. 'Now, for the first time, a detailed and high-quality examination of American and British anti-neutrality propaganda finally exists. Robert Cole's ably written and informative monograph will become a staple reference work for all engaged in researching Irish neutrality during World War II.' American Historical Review A vital study of propaganda and censorship in the age of mass communications from which historians of several genres will undoutedly profit.Table of Contents1. Setting the Stage: April 1937-August 1939; 2. In Dublin's Bright City: September 1939-1940; 3. The Hazards of Neutrality: June-December 1940; 4. More Than Ever 'Ourselves Alone': January-June 1940; 5. From 'Operation Barbarossa' to Pearl Harbor: June-December 1941; 6. Here Come the Yanks!: January-December 1942; 7. Now We Have Won the War!: January-December 1942; 8. Turning the Tide: January-December 1943; 9. Eamon Who?: January 1944-April 1945; Bibliography; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press Britain Ireland and the Second World War
Book SynopsisThis series is intended both to open up new approaches to the history of the Second World War and to re-assess established themes. Covering the civilian as well as the military aspects of the conflict, the series examines how societies waged war between 1939 and 1945, and the effects of war upon them.For Britain the Second World War exists in popular memory as a time of heroic sacrifice, survival and ultimate victory over Fascism. In the Irish state the years 1939-45 are still remembered simply as `the Emergency''. Eire was one of many small states which in 1939 chose not to stay out of the war but one of the few able to maintain its non-belligerency as a policy.How much this owed to Britain''s military resolve or to the political skills of Eamon de Valera is a key question which this new book explores. It also examines the tensions Eire''s policy created in its relations with Winston Churchill and with the United States. The author also explores propaganda, censorship and Irish state security and the degree to which it involves secret co-operation with Britain. Disturbing issues are also raised like the IRA''s relationship to Nazi Germany and ambivalent Irish attitudes to the Holocaust.Drawing upon both published and unpublished sources, this book illustrates the war''s impact on people on both sides of the border and shows how it failed to resolve sectarian problems in Northern Ireland while raising higher the barriers of misunderstanding between it and the Irish state across its border.Table of ContentsContents; 1 Britain and the Irish Question: An Overview; 2 The Impact of Eire's Neutrality and its Denial of the "Treaty Ports" to Britain; 3 The Economics of the Wartime Relationship between Britain and Ireland as a Whole; 4 The IRA - the Resumption of "Military" Operations in 1939; 5 Propaganda, Intelligence, Espionage, and the Media; 6 Overall Impact of the War Years on British/Irish Relationships; 7 Bibliographical Essay; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press British Propaganda to France 19401944
Book SynopsisThis book examines the important issue of British propaganda to France during the Second World War and aims to show the value of the propaganda campaign to the British war effort.Trade ReviewThe book is ideally suited to students of wartime propaganda! It is an excellent textbook. Due to Brooks' thorough research and precise writing, I believe this book is now the key reference for British psychological warfare to France in the Second World War. Falling Leaf Highly informative and thoughtfully argued, this is the first book in English to focus uniquely on British propaganda to France in the Second World War. Covering radio broadcasts as well as printed leaflets, Brooks analyses in detail how propaganda material was created and distributed but, more importantly, he attempts the difficult task of evaluating its overall effectiveness and the extent to which, as part of Britain's war effort, it represented a well-directed use of scarce resources. This is a complex story told with clarity and elan. -- Dr Valerie Holman, University of Reading A highly readable account of a very fascinating story. -- Dr Simon Kitson, University of Birmingham This is a superb and well-documented book that describes very clearly how skillfully Great Britain communicated with the French during the occupation to encourage resistance against Nazi tyranny and to make possible the eventual liberation of France. Research libraries should acquire this superb critical study. -- Edmund Campion, University of Tennessee The European Legacy Tim Brooks has produced a well-researched study of the British wartime propaganda effort to France and, in doing so, fills a gap in the historiography of World War II... This book tells a fascinating story authoritatively and convincingly. -- Martyn Cornick, University of Birmingham American Historical Review Brooks carefully charts the need for propaganda to France, examines how the machinery of government was set up to produce it, how it was distributed, what was said, and what impact it had. As such, the book provides a valuable addition to our understanding of the use of propaganda duringWorld War II. -- Martin Moore H-Net Brooks has done a great job of exploring British propaganda efforts regarding France between 1940 and 1944. He discusses the broader implications of their work for the campaign in France, and for the war in general, and uses those implications to validate his thesis that British propaganda to France served a useful purpose. Consequently, this book makes an important contribution to Second World War scholarship and is a valuable resource for intelligence historians interested in counter-intelligence activities. -- Mary Kathryn Barbier, Mississippi State University War in History The book is ideally suited to students of wartime propaganda! It is an excellent textbook. Due to Brooks' thorough research and precise writing, I believe this book is now the key reference for British psychological warfare to France in the Second World War. Highly informative and thoughtfully argued, this is the first book in English to focus uniquely on British propaganda to France in the Second World War. Covering radio broadcasts as well as printed leaflets, Brooks analyses in detail how propaganda material was created and distributed but, more importantly, he attempts the difficult task of evaluating its overall effectiveness and the extent to which, as part of Britain's war effort, it represented a well-directed use of scarce resources. This is a complex story told with clarity and elan. A highly readable account of a very fascinating story. This is a superb and well-documented book that describes very clearly how skillfully Great Britain communicated with the French during the occupation to encourage resistance against Nazi tyranny and to make possible the eventual liberation of France. Research libraries should acquire this superb critical study. Tim Brooks has produced a well-researched study of the British wartime propaganda effort to France and, in doing so, fills a gap in the historiography of World War II... This book tells a fascinating story authoritatively and convincingly. Brooks carefully charts the need for propaganda to France, examines how the machinery of government was set up to produce it, how it was distributed, what was said, and what impact it had. As such, the book provides a valuable addition to our understanding of the use of propaganda duringWorld War II. Brooks has done a great job of exploring British propaganda efforts regarding France between 1940 and 1944. He discusses the broader implications of their work for the campaign in France, and for the war in general, and uses those implications to validate his thesis that British propaganda to France served a useful purpose. Consequently, this book makes an important contribution to Second World War scholarship and is a valuable resource for intelligence historians interested in counter-intelligence activities.Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction: British propaganda in the Second World War; Chapter One: Machinery - background, planning and departmental organisation; Chapter Two: Method - the distribution of white propaganda; Chapter Three: Message - what white propaganda said; Chapter Four: Reaction - the impact of white propaganda; Chapter Five: Machinery, method, message and reaction - black propaganda; Conclusion; Notes; Map Appendix; Bibliography; Annexes
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Edinburgh University Press Sweden the Swastika and Stalin
Book SynopsisThis book fills a gap in the existing literature on the Second World War by covering the range of challenges, threats, issues, dilemmas, and changes faced and dealt with by Sweden during the conflict.Interest in Sweden''s wartime experiences has increased due to its post-war profile as a neutral that both allowed German troops to transit through its territory and also carried on trading with the Nazi regime during the holocaust years. Many misconceptions and false impressions have arisen and persisted as a result of deliberate misinformation and concealment by all sides during that time. Readers of this book will gain a fresh, broad view of the period, personalities and problems from a Swedish orientation.Trade ReviewGives the reader a fresh and authoritative view of wartime Sweden, from the nation's dealings with Nazi Germany to everyday life and social change. More controversially, Gilmour assesses key decisions by the Swedish leadership and tackles post-war questions about Swedish actions in the era of the Holocaust -- Professor Krister Wahlback, Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs It is so rare to have a scholar so competent in the source material of Sweden during the Second World War ...no book in English has managed to give such a comprehensive picture. -- Jonas Frykman, Professor of European Ethnology, Lund University Sweden, the Swastika and Stalin (2010) is the first modern book in English to cover just about all major aspects of Sweden during WWII. It should become required reading for all students of 20th century Scandinavian history. -- Lars Gyllenhaal, Swedish Military History Commission Gilmour has the ability of bringing together various aspects of history, in particular its political, military and diplomatic dimensions, which makes his book useful also for Swedish-speaking readers. Remarkably, there is at the moment no equivalent introduction available in Swedish. -- Johan Ostling, Department of History, Lund University Unlike Boethius, Gilmour has built an argument from the sources rather than an emotional approach towards Swedish conduct. -- Major Claes Henrikson, Militar Historia Gives the reader a fresh and authoritative view of wartime Sweden, from the nation's dealings with Nazi Germany to everyday life and social change. More controversially, Gilmour assesses key decisions by the Swedish leadership and tackles post-war questions about Swedish actions in the era of the Holocaust It is so rare to have a scholar so competent in the source material of Sweden during the Second World War ...no book in English has managed to give such a comprehensive picture. Sweden, the Swastika and Stalin (2010) is the first modern book in English to cover just about all major aspects of Sweden during WWII. It should become required reading for all students of 20th century Scandinavian history. Gilmour has the ability of bringing together various aspects of history, in particular its political, military and diplomatic dimensions, which makes his book useful also for Swedish-speaking readers. Remarkably, there is at the moment no equivalent introduction available in Swedish. Unlike Boethius, Gilmour has built an argument from the sources rather than an emotional approach towards Swedish conduct.Table of ContentsList of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part One: 1 Shades of Neutrality? Political Challenges and Social Changes 1900-1939; 2 Wartime Power and Personalities; 3 Isolation, 1939-1941; 4 Towards the Turning Point, July 1941-July 1943; 5 Eastern Approaches and Western Reproaches: Finland's Continuation War and the Collapse of Germany, June 1941-May 1945; 6 Trading with Germany and the Allies - Blackmail and Brinksmanship; Part Two: 7 Security, Subversion, Spies and Sabotage; 8 The Battle for Sweden's Mind - Propaganda and Censorship; 9 Race, Rejection, Reception, Rescue, and Redemption - Swedish Humanitarian Endeavours; 10 Military Matters; 11 The Front at Home - Beredskapstiden; 12 Looking Back in Anger? The Assault on 'Small-State Realism'; Abbreviations and Glossary; Reference Sources and Bibliography; Index
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Edinburgh University Press Times of Troubles
Book SynopsisThis is the first academic study of the British Army in Northern Ireland. It investigates the complex experiences of English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish soldiers alike during the often-controversial Operation Banner 1969-2007. The experiences of these soldiers raise many important and difficult questions on war and policy. When do ''troubles'', riots and insurgency become war? How does a liberal state respond to an internal war within its own borders? How does it decide on its rules of engagement for its armed forces?Featuring key interviews with former soldiers, paramilitaries and Special Branch detectives, amongst other key actors, the authors attempt to answer these questions and enhance our knowledge of conflict resolution by providing a deep analysis of one of the most significant British military operations since the Second World War.
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Edinburgh University Press Times of Troubles
Book SynopsisThis is the first academic study of the British Army in Northern Ireland. It investigates the complex experiences of English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish soldiers alike during the often-controversial Operation Banner 1969-2007. The experiences of these soldiers raise many important and difficult questions on war and policy. When do ''troubles'', riots and insurgency become war? How does a liberal state respond to an internal war within its own borders? How does it decide on its rules of engagement for its armed forces?Featuring key interviews with former soldiers, paramilitaries and Special Branch detectives, amongst other key actors, the authors attempt to answer these questions and enhance our knowledge of conflict resolution by providing a deep analysis of one of the most significant British military operations since the Second World War.
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Edinburgh University Press The Road to Iraq
Book SynopsisAhmad presents a social history of the war's leading agents the neoconservatives and shows how this ideologically coherent group of determined political agents used the contingency of 9/11 to overwhelm a sceptical foreign policy establishment, military brass and intelligence apparatus, propelling the US into war.Trade Review'This forcefully argued and meticulously researched book turns out to be enormously relevant to the present moment - Let me reiterate the enormous significance and relevance of The Road to Iraq. It is a work of tremendous intellectual diligence and moral seriousness. We are all indebted to Ahmad for undertaking this major contribution to the debate on one of the central events of this century, whose aftershocks continue to unfold daily, to disastrous effect. With the neocons poised to make a comeback, this book serves as a cautionary tale of bracing urgency. It is a must-read guide to the history of the present.' - Danny Postel, Associate Director of the Center for Middle East Studies, University of Denver, in The Drouth. 'Ahmad, who teaches journalism in the UK and writes for a variety of American and European publications, traces the remarkable history of neoconservatism in minute detail. He demonstrates its consistent role as the voice of cold-war thinking, segueing smoothly from militant anti-Communism of the era of Scoop Jackson (the "Senator from Boeing") to the new opportunities afforded by Islamic fundamentalism since the 1990s.' - James B. Rule, Dissent. 'A superb analysis of how and why a small band of neoconservatives helped push the United States into a disastrous war. Far from being tough-minded patriots, Ahmad reveals them to be deceitful and manipulative self-promoters who remain influential in policy-making circles, despite the enormous cost of their past follies. His analysis is nuanced, his research comprehensive, and the story he tells is profoundly disturbing.' - Stephen Walt, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Black Gold and Red Herrings; 2. Origins and Interests; 3. Ideology and Institutions; 4. Setting the Agenda; 5. Selling the War; Conclusions; Appendix: Mearsheimer and Walt, Redux.
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Edinburgh University Press The Cuban Missile Crisis
Book SynopsisOctober 1962, The Cuban Missile Crisis: the confrontation that brought the world closer to nuclear catastrophe than ever before or since. Both John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev were determined to avoid nuclear war, but events could easily have spiraled out of control with cataclysmic results.Drawing on an extensive body of research, including primary sources released only in the last few years, this work places the crisis in a broader international and chronological context than previously possible. Discover how America was responsible for causing the conflict and Cuba''s role as an important actor rather than a superpower pawn.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements, Abbreviations; Introduction; 1.The United States, the Cuban Revolution and the Cold War, 1959-61; 2.The Decision to Base Nuclear Missiles in Cuba, Spring-Summer 1962; 3. Discovering the Missile Bases, 14-22 October 1962; 4. Confrontation, 22-5 October 1962; 5. A World Crisis, 22-8 October 1962; 6. Nadir and Resolution, 26-8 October 1962; 7. Aftermath I, November-December 1962; 8. Aftermath II, 1963-70; Conclusion; Appendix 1: List of Persons; Appendix 2: Chronology; Appendix 3: Biographies; Appendix 4: Documents; Index.
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The History Press Ltd The Trio
Book SynopsisThe Trio tells the story of three war correspondents, two Englishmen and an Australian, all in their 30s, whose friendship was forged during the Second World War.
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The History Press Ltd The Sketchbook War
Book SynopsisDuring the Second World War, British artists produced over 6,000 works of war art, the result of a government scheme partly designed to prevent the artists being killed.
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The History Press Ltd The Kalahari Killings
Book SynopsisWhat happened next would entail ethno-archaeological investigation, a sensational murder trial with worldwide media coverage – and an astonishing outcome – that led to a profound change in the lives of the Tyua Bush people.
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The History Press Ltd The Secrets of Q Central
Book SynopsisA quiet market town with no military presence was chosen as the secret communications centre for Britain as the country prepared for war with Germany in 1937.
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The History Press Ltd MMother
Book SynopsisJohn `Hoppy’ Hopgood, pilot and 2nd in command in the May 1943 Dambusters raid, died a hero at just 21 years old. A veteran of forty-eight bombing sorties and an expert pilot in three Bomber Command Squadrons, this is the man who taught Guy Gibson how to fly a Lancaster.
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The History Press Ltd Deception
Book SynopsisThe first book to tell the complete story of Adolf Eichmann’s plan to deceive the last Jews of EuropeTrade ReviewHale takes the reader through the myriad connections which make this story so compelling. This impressive study is a surefire addition to the literature of contemporary Holocaust History and Memory Studies. -- Dr Paul A. LevineHale offers a compelling mix of micro detail, combing the records, piecing together a shattered narrative, alongside a masterful overview of the Holocaust as a whole … Superb and very chastening. -- Martin Davidson
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The History Press Ltd Slims Burma Boys
Book SynopsisCompelling first-hand accounts of the Burma campaign – one of the bloodiest and longest campaigns of the Second World War
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The History Press Ltd World War II
Book SynopsisIn the First World War many battles on the Western Front had lasted weeks or months. All too often they degenerated into glacial and indecisive campaigns of attrition. By the 1930s, however, military science had recreated the possibility of a decisive battle. An unprecedented rate of technological change meant that a stream of new inventions were readily at hand for military innovators to exploit. Aircraft, armoured vehicles and new forms of motorised transport became available to make possible a fresh style of offensive warfare when the next European war began in 1939. A belief in the importance of effective war fighting was vital to the Nazi vision of Germany''s future. Nazi Germany''s political and military leaders aimed for rapid and decisive victory in battle. From 1939-45 new ideologies and new machines of war carried destruction across the globe. Alan Warren chronicles the sixteen most decisive battles of the Second World War, from the Blitzkrieg of Poland to the fall
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The History Press Ltd Tobruk
Book SynopsisThe siege of Tobruk was the longest in British military history. The coastal fortress and deep-water port was of crucial importance to the battle for North Africa, and the key that would unlock the way to Egypt and the Suez Canal. For almost a year the isolated garrison held out against all attempts to take it, and in the process Tobruk assumed a propaganda role that outweighed its great strategic value, becoming a potent symbol of resistance when the war was going badly for the British. Goebbels referred to the garrison as ''rats,'' and they proudly adopted the insult as a title, and became the ''Rats of Tobruk.'' When it finally fell to German tanks on 21 June 1942 with the loss of 25,000 men, Churchill said it was ''one of the heaviest blows I can recall during the war''. William F. Buckingham''s startling account, drawing extensively on official records and first-hand accounts from both sides, is a comprehensive history of this epic struggle, a
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The History Press Ltd E. J. Rudsdales Journals of Wartime Colchester
Book SynopsisE.J. Rudsdale's role as a museum curator and air-raid shelter superintendent at Colchester Castle during the Second World War gave him the perfect opportunity to record life on the Home Front in his journals. Seventy years later, the selected extracts gathered here provide a remarkable insight into wartime life. Rudsdale's writing is characterised throughout by his wry observations of wartime officialdom and his lack of conformity with the prevailing views of the time. He was a pacifist, which gives his journals an unusual perspective. However, even as a civilian he could not escape the conflict, living in a garrison town threatened by invasion and regular bombing raids. His journals, therefore, record anxious and tragic events, but throughout it all his sense of humour is never diminished. This absorbing collection demonstrates Rudsdale's ability to bring a scene vividly to life and each account highlights the daily pressures that people endured as they valiantly tried to carry on witTrade ReviewCATHERINE PEARSON has a BA in Medieval and Modern History from King's College, London, and an MA in Museum Studies from University College London. She recently completed a PhD at UCL on the history of Britain's museums during the Second World War, which was supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. She lives in Chelmsford. Now deceased, E.J. Rudsdale was born in 1910 in Colchester. He left the Royal Grammar School in 1928 to become Curator's Assistant at Colchester Castle Museum.
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