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Book SynopsisReconstructs an imposing mosaic that reveals the immense scope and ambitious intent of the first Iasi-Kishinev offensive. This book shows that Stalin was not as preoccupied with a direct route to Berlin as he was with a ""broad front"" strategy designed to gain territory and find vulnerable points in Germany's extended lines of defense.

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Book SynopsisProvides a history of the Soviet partisan movement, a people's army of irregulars fighting behind enemy lines. This work describes it as a social phenomenon and reveals how its members were both transformed by the crucible of war. It shows that people who suddenly had the autonomy to act on their own came to rethink the Stalinist regime.

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewDavid Glantz is the world’s top scholar of the Soviet-German War. This book is accessible to the general reader and indispensable to the specialist." —Journal of Military History"David Glantz is indisputably the West’s foremost expert on the subject." —The Atlantic"An important addition to the author’s other works on the Eastern Front in the Second World War." —H-Net Reviews"This book represents the most thorough and intensive examination of the state of the Red Army in 1941 yet to appear. It investigates every aspect of the Soviet military establishment, command, deployment, mobilization, reserves, the Soviet soldier himself, and above all, combat readiness, using Soviet and German archives. Glantz’s evidence is unchallengeable, his sources unimpeachable, his conclusion incontestable." —John Erickson, author of The Road to Stalingrad"Effectively refutes the charge—recently rehabilitated by Viktor Suvorov in Icebreaker—that Stalin was secretly planning an offensive war against Hitler during 1941. With his previous book When Titans Clashed and this latest contribution, David Glantz has established firmly his reputation as the preeminent historian of the Soviet Army." —Mark von Hagen, author of Soldiers in the Proletarian Dictatorship"An outstanding contribution and a must for any student of the history of the Red Army and the Soviet Union’s role in the Second World War." —Malcolm Mackintosh, author of Juggernaut: A History of Soviet Armed Forces

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAfter five months of Pentagon planning and six years of implementation in Iraq, Gary Vogler discovered the secret oil agenda that sent the United States to war in the Middle East. His revealing and compelling narrative will both surprise and anger many Americans about neoconservative greed, dishonesty, and treachery. Iraq and the Politics of Oil tells the truth—and the truth about this grave historical blunder is long overdue."" - Donald T. Phillips, author of Lincoln on Leadership for Today ""Mr. Vogler’s first hand account of his years working to rebuild the Iraqi oil sector is a must-read for students of post-conflict reconstruction. It demonstrates how even with advanced planning by top industry experts, this crucial sector still faced unanticipated bureaucratic infighting, political interference, Congressional budget constraints, and deteriorating security. Mr. Vogler describes in intimate detail how a remarkable group of dedicated Iraqis and Americans came together to try to overcome these challenges, providing valuable lessons for the future."" - Ambassador Robin Raphel, former Deputy Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction.""Gary Vogler spent 72 months in Iraq after the invasion in 2003 working on oil infrastructure. I know no other person better qualified to write this story. And the management of oil in Iraq over this period is an important story."" - Gordon Rudd, author of Reconstructing Iraq: Regime Change, Jay Garner, and the ORHA Story

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewGlantz brings to life a crucial period on the Eastern Front often overshadowed by the more famous battles of Stalingrad and Kursk. . . . of tremendous value to historians of World War II.""- Armor Magazine

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Book SynopsisMidway through 1942, Japanese and Allied forces found themselves fighting on two fronts - in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. These concurrent campaigns proved a critical turning point in the war being waged in the Pacific. Key to this shift was the Allies seizing of the strategic initiative - a concept that Sean Judge examines in this book, particularly in the context of the Pacific War.Trade ReviewThe Turn of the Tide in the Pacific War is a valuable addition to the literature on strategy. The chapters on intelligence organizations in both the Japanese and US militaries are particularly useful in understanding Judge’s explication of the concept of strategic initiative. Judge argues that strategic initiative is a concept that needs more formal study, and his case study here highlights how such a process can be accomplished while at the same time providing a gripping campaign analysis."" - John T. Kuehn, professor of military history, Army Command and General Staff College""This insightful study shows how the tide really turned in the Japanese-American Pacific War. Reinforcing the role of contingency in shaping outcomes in the conflict that are too often seen as preordained, Judge reveals the combination of strategy and serendipity that allowed the Americans to finally seize the initiative that would lead to eventual victory."" - Conrad C. Crane, author of American Airpower Strategy in World War II: Bombs, Cities, Civilians, and Oil""Sean M. Judge’s The Turn of the Tide in the Pacific War sheds much-needed light on two important issues. He first provides analytical clarity concerning the much bandied-about concept of ‘strategic initiative.’ Then he puts it to good use by demonstrating how the campaigns for New Guinea and Guadalcanal were mutually supporting and turned the tide against the Japanese military. Judge’s work demands a wide readership."" - Kevin C. Holzimmer, author of General Walter Krueger: Unsung Hero of the Pacific War

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Book SynopsisWar breeds myths, especially those made up by the vanquished to explain their loss. Occasionally the myths of the defeated centre on prisoners of war (POWs) and those missing in action (MIAs). Traumatic Defeat takes a close, comparative look at two cases of this kind of mythmaking - in West Germany in the wake of World War II and in the US after the Vietnam War.Trade ReviewThis bold and exciting book gives us an entirely new view of the myth that Vietnam retained large numbers of American POWs after the war. By comparing this myth with a similar myth in Germany after World War II, Gallagher provides important insights into the significance of these postwar myths, which claim that many missing soldiers are still being held by an enemy nation in secret prison camps."" - H. Bruce Franklin, author of Vietnam and Other American Fantasies""This intriguing study examines the development of the public myth that thousands of German war prisoners were held by the Russian government in secret camps during World War II, a myth promoted by war fever, anticommunist ideology, and Germany's need to picture its missing prisoners as victims rather than war criminals. The Soviet-German model is compared with the more contemporary public myth of unreturned American POWs following America’s lengthy involvement in the Vietnam War, providing an important contribution to our understanding of postwar trauma and public grief."" - Arnold Krammer, author of Nazi Prisoners of War in America

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Book SynopsisExamining the information on enemy nations that was gathered, processed, and presented to leaders in the Nazi state, Robert Hutchinson's study reveals the consequences of the politicization of German intelligence during World War II - as well as the persistence of ingrained prejudices among the intelligence services' Cold War successors.Trade ReviewGerman Foreign Intelligence from Hitler's War to the Cold War is a very fine, deeply researched, nicely contextualized, and beautifully written piece of scholarship that evaluates the reporting of Nazi-era foreign intelligence agencies immediately before and during the early stages of World War II. Hutchinson shows how these reports—quite different from what intelligence practitioners claimed after the war—confirmed Hitler's political assessments and the Nazi Weltanschauung. He then carries the story into the postwar era and demonstrates how the continuity of people and ideas influenced West German and US intelligence efforts against the Soviet Union."" - Katrin Paehler, author of The Third Reich's Intelligence Services: The Career of Walter Schellenberg""German Foreign Intelligence from Hitler's War to the Cold War is extensively researched and well written. Robert Hutchinson demonstrates that Nazi ideology pervaded the German intelligence services and that their collective body of reports, rather than countering Hitler's beliefs in fact supported and perpetuated them. Moreover, this book connects the wartime work of these services with the extensive work that hundreds of these former Nazi personnel conducted for the United States, Britain, and West Germany in the decades after the war."" - Derek R. Mallett, author of Hitler's Generals in America: Nazi POWs and Allied Military Intelligence""German Foreign Intelligence from Hitler's War to the Cold War is a deeply researched and well-written investigation that illuminates a hitherto shadowy corner of intelligence history. It will be welcomed by students of World War II and the early Cold War."" - David Alvarez, coauthor of Spying through a Glass Darkly: American Espionage against the Soviet Union, 1945–1946""Hutchinson offers a well-researched, clearly written reassessment of German intelligence before, during, and after World War II. He depicts the rivalry and cross-currents covered in earlier studies but argues that many intelligence professionals suffered from ideological distortions that partly overlapped with Hitler's views. Rather than reject intelligence, Hitler picked out what he wanted or needed. Hutchinson adds a critical reassessment of Reinhard Gehlen and the Gehlen organization. This book should spark lively discussion."" - Richard Breitman, distinguished professor emeritus, American UniversityTable of Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: The German Foreign Intelligence Services 1. Misunderstanding Great Britian, 1939-1942 2. Underestimating the Soviet Union, 1939-1942 3. Counting Out the United States, 1939-1941 4. German Intelligence and the Race War in the east, 1941-1943 5. General Gehlen's Intelligence Service, 1945-1971 6. History as Intelligence: Wehrmacht Officers and the US Army Historical Division, 1945-1956 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe first English-Language study of a non-Russian Soviet republic during World War II, this book explores how the war altered official policies toward the region's ethnic groups - and accelerated Central Asia's integration into Soviet institutions.Trade ReviewKazakhstan in World War II is a thoroughly researched and broadly conceptualized study that contributes significantly to our understanding of Kazakhstan and the USSR during World War II. By an examination of archival materials in Kazakhstan and Moscow, of memoirs, and of the periodical press, Carmack reveals the prejudice and suffering endured by Kazakhs and by other non-Russian nationalities among deportees, evacuees, and conscripts of the Labor Army. The author highlights exceptionally well a fluid and oft-contested relationship among local, republican, and national leaders exacerbated by shortages of human and material resources. Carmack makes a compelling case for a complex and uneven integration during the war and in the period immediately thereafter of Kazakhstan’s bureaucracy, economy, and people into the larger Soviet Union." - Larry E. Holmes, author of Stalin’s World War II Evacuations: Triumph and Troubles in Kirov"World War II was the moment when the diverse peoples of the Soviet Union were tested under fire and forged into a mobilized force that defeated fascism. With Roberto J. Carmack’s vivid study of Kazakhstan in wartime, we have a deep analysis of how this vast and multiethnic country was politically integrated into a relatively cohesive community. Although Russians enjoyed more privileges than Kazakhs, languishing at the bottom of the Soviet hierarchy of nationalities were the exiled peoples-Volga Germans and North Caucasians-who were considered treacherous and rebellious. Condescension and discrimination between Kazakhs and Slavs hindered an easy passage into “Friendship of the Peoples,” and yet over time many Kazakhs identified with the Soviet project and celebrated the victory over the invaders as a triumph they shared with other Soviet peoples. Persuasively argued, this book breaks new ground in our understanding of the complexities and contradictions of Soviet imperial history." - Ronald Grigor Suny, William H. Sewell Jr. Distinguished University Professor of History and Political Science, University of Michigan"This book illuminates the Soviet war effort in Central Asia, a critical but rarely examined aspect of the war. Carmack makes extensive use of Soviet-era archives to reveal Kazakhstan’s experience of World War II, its contributions to the Soviet war effort, and the ways in which the war transformed and ‘Sovietized’ the region and its people. Focusing on wartime mobilization, nationality policy, and the state's treatment of repressed and deported populations, Carmack’s study should be essential reading for anyone interested in the Soviet home front both at the regional and national levels." - Kenneth Slepyan, author of Stalin’s Guerrillas: Soviet Partisans in World War IITable of Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Glossary of Terms Note on Translation and Transliteration Introduction 1. All to the Front? Nationality and Military Mobilization in Wartime Kazakhstan 2. History and Hero Making: Kazakh Frontline Propaganda and Dynamics of Assimilation 3. The Labor Front: Work and Institutional Competition in Wartime Kazakhstan 4. The Ideological Front: Propaganda and Religion in Wartime Kazakhstan 5. The Dejected and the Exploited: Deportation, Labor Mobilization, and the Dynamics of Exclusion in Kazakhstan's Special-Settlements Conclusion: The Soviet National Hierarchy and the Fate of the Soviet Empire Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFocusing on 1972, Darrel Whitcomb combines stories of soldiers cut off from their units, advisors trapped with allied forces, and airmen downed in enemy territory, with the narratives of the US Air Force, Army, Navy, Marines, contract pilots, and special operations teams ready to conduct rescues in Laos, Cambodia, North Vietnam, and South Vietnam.Trade ReviewThis book does an outstanding job in addressing the search and rescue (SAR) efforts of the US Air Force and US Navy during the last year of the war in which US forces were still engaged in combat. This was a period that has not been covered extensively in other histories of the war, and the author puts the SAR story in the larger context of what was happening on the ground, particularly during the 1972 North Vietnamese Easter Offensive. Impressively documented, this book is strongly recommended." —James H. Willbanks, professor emeritus, US Army Command and General Staff College, Vietnam veteran, and author of Abandoning Vietnam"American combat pilots live with the possibility of being shot down over enemy territory, but this comes with the understanding that every possible attempt will be made to secure their rescue. In Moral Imperative: 1972, Combat Rescue, and the End of America's War in Vietnam, Darrel Whitcomb deftly demonstrates the ends to which rescue crews were willing to go to save a downed airman or aviator. Whitcomb shows the almost daily struggle of the men who flew the Sandys, Jolly Greens, Big Mothers, and a host of others who were willing to put it all on the line to bring their comrades out of harm's way. Whitcomb has written the definitive work on search and rescue during the Vietnam War. Moral Imperative is comprehensive and well researched but also an amazing tale of gallantry and sacrifice." —Brian Laslie, author of The Air Force Way of War: U.S. Tactics and Training after Vietnam"Only one who was there could ever have captured the epic story of rescue operations in Vietnam as Darrel Whitcomb has done. It is a story of technology and organization, but mostly a story of courage and unflinching commitment to duty. In presenting this comprehensive account of rescue operations at the height of Nixon's war, Whitcomb has added immensely to our understanding of the air war, both north and south, and of those who fought it." —Stephen P. Randolph, Rokke-Fox Chair, Center for Character and Leadership Development, US Air Force Academy"Combat rescue is combat! Darrel Whitcomb proves that in describing combat rescue during the final full year of the war in Southeast Asia, arguably the high-water mark of the one hundred years of combat rescue. If you ever wanted to know more about the exhilarations and heartbreaks of combat rescue, this is the read for you. None better." —Thomas Phillips, coauthor of Leave No Man Behind: The Saga of Combat Search and Rescue"A meticulously researched and eye-opening account of brothers in arms. Whitcomb unearths fascinating stories of downed airmen and the men who went after them against steep odds. An inspiring read." —Stephan Talty, author of Saving Bravo: The Greatest Rescue Mission in Navy SEAL History

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Book SynopsisIn 1945, the Indian British XIV Army inflicted on the Imperial Japanese Army in Burma the worst defeat in its history. This volume offers a full account of this brilliant and original operational maneuver, utilizing a full range of materials, from personal accounts to archival holdings - including the bits the official historians left out.Trade ReviewA much-needed study of the Burma campaign in 1945 by the two foremost historians in the field. Not only do they chart the transformation of the Indian Army but also they relay the story of the forgotten African soldiers fighting in Burma. The authors demonstrate that it was largely due to the contribution of these troops that the Imperial Japanese Army was defeated by 1945. The book is extremely engaging and eloquent: an essential text for anyone studying the campaign. Its accessible prose makes it such a pleasure to read-it therefore deserves a much wider readership than just historians." - Alan Jeffreys, author of Approach to Battle: Training the Indian Army during the Second World War"There is a stage in every topic when it becomes possible to produce a study that will be 'the' book everyone interested in the matter should read. That time has come, and The 1945 Burma Campaign and the Transformation of the British Indian Army is 'the' book. Callahan and Marston explain how and why the liberation of Burma in 1945 was the peak of military excellence for Allied combined-arms campaigns during the Second World War." - Brian P. Farrell, professor of history, National University of Singapore, and author of The Defence and Fall of Singapore

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Book SynopsisExplores the vital role that prisoners of war play in American warfare and reveals the cultural contexts of warfare, the shaping of military policies, the process of state-building, the impacts upon the economy and environment of the conflict zone, their special place in propaganda, and the importance of public history in shaping national memory.Trade ReviewThis book is a masterpiece of contemporary scholarship. It does what Daniel Krebs and Lorien Foote say it is intended to do: examine the less-traveled roads with new understandings/visions of the American POW experience. No one can ask for more than that. I recommend it for every collection of American POW history." - Robert C. Doyle, author of Voices from Captivity: Interpreting the American POW Narrative"Useful Captives, in clear and convincing fashion, demonstrates how prisoners of war have impacted the cultural, political, and tactical dimensions of American military conflicts. Ranging from the colonial era to the War on Terror, the contributors have produced one of the most important studies on war captives in decades." - Glenn Robins, author of The Longest Rescue: The Life and Legacy of Vietnam POW William A. Robinson

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Book SynopsisHighlights the striking similarities between the US Civil War and the Great War by analysing how the Civil War affected the American reaction to and experience in the Great War while attending to enlisted men, military officers, and political leaders.Trade Review"Finally! We needed a book just like this, and now we have it. The fascinating essays in this collection make a compelling case for some striking similarities between the American Civil War and the Great War. The two conflicts no longer seem distant from one another, but instead part of the same era. No matter your historical interests, you will learn something new from the juxtapositions made in this unique book."—Lorien Foote, Patricia and Bookman Peters Professor of History, Texas A&M University, and author of Rites of Retaliation: Civilization, Soldiers, and Campaigns in the American Civil War "Silbey and Wongsrichanalai provide readers with an important juxtaposition of the Civil War and the Great War—both essential for understanding America’s past and present. Besides their own splendid reflections, the editors also gathered a cadre of scholars who draw fascinating parallels between the two wars, anchored by Steven Trout’s thoughtful afterword."—Edward A. GutiÉrrez, director of Center for Military History and Grand Strategy, Hillsdale College, and author of Doughboys on the Great War: How American Soldiers Viewed Their Military ExperienceTable of Contents Foreword, Jennifer D. Keene Acknowledgments Introduction: Remembrance of Wars Past: The American Civil War and the Great War at Their Sesquicentennial and Centennial Anniversaries, David J. Silbey and Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai 1. “On Each Side There Emerged a Supreme Commander”: Ulysses S. Grant and John J. Pershing (and Douglas Haig), 1861-1918, David J. Silbey 2. Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, and Dying for One’s Country, Brian Dirck 3. African American Soldiers: The Struggle for Equality through Service in the Civil War and Great War, Debra Sheffer 4. “By Word or Act Oppose the Cause of the United States”: Loyalty in the Civil War-Era and Great War-Era America, Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai 5. War and the Shaping of American Medicine: The American Civil War and the Great War, Dale Smith and Shauna Devine 6. Healing the Unseen Wounds of War: Treating Mental Trauma in the Civil War and the Great War, Kathleen Logothetis Thompson 7. Blood and Soil: Americans and Environment in the Trenches of Petersburg and the Western Front, Brian Allen Drake 8. “We Owe Everything to Their Valor and Sacrifice”: Ulysses S. Grant’s and John J. Pershing’s Narratives of Command, Steven Trout List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisA history of the Second World War as fought 'from below' by anti-fascist militias, who worked both with and against the allied powers.Trade Review'Rigorously structuring his analysis around the two central themes of popular resistance and inter-imperialist rivalry, Gluckstein makes an indispensable contribution to understanding the reality of the conflict in all its complexity' -- Neil Davidson, Senior Research Fellow, University of Strathclyde and author of Discovering the Scottish Revolution'Combines an impressive grasp of the war's shifting complexities with the brilliance of a sweeping and penetrating political analysis' -- Andy Durgan, author of The Spanish Civil War (Palgrave 2007)'The Second World War is so thoroughly surrounded by myth that it is hard to grasp its real character. Gluckstein offers a new interpretation, portraying 1939-45 as two parallel wars: one waged by the Great Powers among themselves, the other by the peoples against fascism' -- Alex CallinicosTable of ContentsPreface 1. Introduction 2. Spanish Prelude PART 1: Yugoslavia, Greece, Poland and Latvia – Between the Blocs 3. Yugoslavia: Balancing Powers 4. Greece: Allies at War with the Resistance 5. Poland’s Warsaw Uprising 6. Latvia: Standing History on its Head PART 2: France, Britain and the USA– Divisions Within the Allies 7. France: Imperial Glory Versus Resistance Ideology 8. Britain: The Myth of Unity 9. USA: Racism in the Arsenal of Democracy PART 3: Germany, Austria and Italy – Under the Axis 10. Germany: Conservatives and Antifa 11. Austria: Resistance and Ruling Class Capitulation 12. Italy: The Working Class and the Two Wars PART 4: India, Indonesia and Vietnam - Different Enemies 13. India: From Famine to Independence 14. Indonesia: Axis and Allies United Against the People 15. Vietnam: Anti-Imperialist Breakthrough 16. Conclusion 17. Chronology Notes Index

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Book SynopsisA history of the Second World War as fought 'from below' by anti-fascist militias, who worked both with and against the allied powers.Trade Review'Rigorously structuring his analysis around the two central themes of popular resistance and inter-imperialist rivalry, Gluckstein makes an indispensable contribution to understanding the reality of the conflict in all its complexity' -- Neil Davidson, Senior Research Fellow, University of Strathclyde and author of Discovering the Scottish Revolution'Combines an impressive grasp of the war's shifting complexities with the brilliance of a sweeping and penetrating political analysis' -- Andy Durgan, author of The Spanish Civil War (Palgrave 2007)'The Second World War is so thoroughly surrounded by myth that it is hard to grasp its real character. Gluckstein offers a new interpretation, portraying 1939-45 as two parallel wars: one waged by the Great Powers among themselves, the other by the peoples against fascism' -- Alex CallinicosTable of ContentsPreface 1. Introduction 2. Spanish Prelude PART 1: Yugoslavia, Greece, Poland and Latvia – Between the Blocs 3. Yugoslavia: Balancing Powers 4. Greece: Allies at War with the Resistance 5. Poland’s Warsaw Uprising 6. Latvia: Standing History on its Head PART 2: France, Britain and the USA– Divisions Within the Allies 7. France: Imperial Glory Versus Resistance Ideology 8. Britain: The Myth of Unity 9. USA: Racism in the Arsenal of Democracy PART 3: Germany, Austria and Italy – Under the Axis 10. Germany: Conservatives and Antifa 11. Austria: Resistance and Ruling Class Capitulation 12. Italy: The Working Class and the Two Wars PART 4: India, Indonesia and Vietnam - Different Enemies 13. India: From Famine to Independence 14. Indonesia: Axis and Allies United Against the People 15. Vietnam: Anti-Imperialist Breakthrough 16. Conclusion 17. Chronology Notes Index

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Book SynopsisArgues that the Second World War was about a division of the world between the great powers, as well as a rising of ordinary people against fascism.Trade Review'Superb' -- John Newsinger, Review 31'A much-needed, accessible work portraying the political and military intricacies of the Second World War from a Marxist perspective. A major achievement' -- George Clode, Deputy Editor, Military History Monthly'One of the single best popular histories of the war's origins and consequences that I have ever had the pleasure of reading. I highly recommend it' -- Alex Anievas, Anna Biegun Warburg Junior Research Fellow, Oxford University'A comprehensive and detailed alternative history of the origins, cause and aftermath of World War II from a Marxist standpoint. His claim that it was in no way a war for democracy and against fascism will provoke wide-ranging debate' -- Ian Birchall, historian and author of 'Tony Cliff: A Marxist for His Time'Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Competing Empires at a Time of Economic Crisis 2. The Allied Powers 3. The Axis Powers 4. The Countdown to War 5. The Early War 6. Russia: The Crucible of Victory 7. The End of the Third Reich 8. Resistance in Europe 9. Asia and the Pacific 10. The East is Red 11. The Post-War World Conclusion Timeline Notes Index

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Book SynopsisUnder the blazing Iraqi sun in the summer of 2007, Shannon Meehan, a lieutenant in the U.S. Army, ordered a strike that would take the lives of innocent Iraqi civilians. He thought he was doing the right thing. He thought he was protecting his men.Trade Review"An articulate and devastating memoir." Military Writers Society of America "The book resonates because Meehan speaks not for sympathy but for understanding, and because - sadly - his personal story is one the other service members know well."Army Times "Highly recommended ... This work serves as a reminder of some of the costs of war in modern times and leaves readers 'dazed and confused' over how to respond and what to think about the situation in Iraq."Central European Journal of International and Security Studies "An exceptional book. It takes the reader to Iraq, to feel all sides of a deployed soldiers life, from the boredom, the bullshit to the battles and the searing heat inside the tank. This is a book that every American should read in order to get a full accounting of what it means to send men and women off to war. You may finish, but you won't forget Beyond Duty. I can't recommend this one highly enough." Pundit Review "A straightforward, succint and insightful report of one man's experience at war ... The book resonates because Meehan speaks not for sympathy, but for understanding, and because - sadly - his personal story is one that other service members know well."Air Force Times "Beyond Duty is a powerful and heartbreaking account of Lieutenant Shannon Meehan's tour of duty in Iraq, and of his decision in 2007 to call in a missile strike that claimed the lives of innocent civilians. Remorse, shame, self-doubt, depression - these were among the war's emotional aftershocks for Lieutenant Meehan. This honest and painfully intense narrative is a reminder of the terrible costs of warfare, not just as measured by blood or treasure, but also in terms of damage to the human psyche. I will return to this book often." Tim O'Brien, author of The Things They Carried and winner of the National Book Award "This memoir is a descent into war's difficult terrain, a landscape which continues on within the veteran as he or she returns home. The archetype of the classic hero is nearly completely destroyed through the personal narrative which chronicles a series of harrowing events in order to reveal a deeper sense of the heroic. Meehan's voice reminds us that the bleeding continues on after the guns have gone silent, even if we don't realize it." Brian Turner, award-winning author of Here, Bullet, and veteran of the Iraq War "Meehan explores the complicated anxieties of battle and command with precision and intelligence. He treats colossally horrific situations with admirable emotional restraint, and his strong, taut narrative has a visceral impact. This is a book that ranks among the very best writing that is being done today about events on the frontline in Iraq." James Hutchisson, The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina "For better or for worse, this memoir documents what the war in Iraq has been: young soldiers doing their heartbreaking best to do the right thing amid confusion, chaos and collateral damage." Mary Russell, award-winning author of A Thread of Grace and The SparrowTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Prologue. Chapter One. Chapter Two. Chapter Three. Chapter Four. Chapter Five. Chapter Six. Chapter Seven. Chapter Eight. Chapter Nine. Chapter Ten. Chapter Eleven. Chapter Twelve. Chapter Thirteen. Chapter Fourteen. Chapter Fifteen. Chapter Sixteen. Chapter Seventeen. Chapter Eighteen. Chapter Nineteen. Chapter Twenty. Chapter Twenty-One. Chapter Twenty-Two. Chapter Twenty-Three. Chapter Twenty-Four. Chapter Twenty-Five. Chapter Twenty-Six. Chapter Twenty-Seven. Epilogue.

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Book SynopsisUnder the blazing Iraqi sun in the summer of 2007, Shannon Meehan, a lieutenant in the U.S. Army, ordered a strike that would take the lives of innocent Iraqi civilians. He thought he was doing the right thing. He thought he was protecting his men.Trade Review"An articulate and devastating memoir." Military Writers Society of America "The book resonates because Meehan speaks not for sympathy but for understanding, and because - sadly - his personal story is one the other service members know well."Army Times "Highly recommended ... This work serves as a reminder of some of the costs of war in modern times and leaves readers 'dazed and confused' over how to respond and what to think about the situation in Iraq."Central European Journal of International and Security Studies "An exceptional book. It takes the reader to Iraq, to feel all sides of a deployed soldiers life, from the boredom, the bullshit to the battles and the searing heat inside the tank. This is a book that every American should read in order to get a full accounting of what it means to send men and women off to war. You may finish, but you won't forget Beyond Duty. I can't recommend this one highly enough." Pundit Review "A straightforward, succint and insightful report of one man's experience at war ... The book resonates because Meehan speaks not for sympathy, but for understanding, and because - sadly - his personal story is one that other service members know well."Air Force Times "Beyond Duty is a powerful and heartbreaking account of Lieutenant Shannon Meehan's tour of duty in Iraq, and of his decision in 2007 to call in a missile strike that claimed the lives of innocent civilians. Remorse, shame, self-doubt, depression - these were among the war's emotional aftershocks for Lieutenant Meehan. This honest and painfully intense narrative is a reminder of the terrible costs of warfare, not just as measured by blood or treasure, but also in terms of damage to the human psyche. I will return to this book often." Tim O'Brien, author of The Things They Carried and winner of the National Book Award "This memoir is a descent into war's difficult terrain, a landscape which continues on within the veteran as he or she returns home. The archetype of the classic hero is nearly completely destroyed through the personal narrative which chronicles a series of harrowing events in order to reveal a deeper sense of the heroic. Meehan's voice reminds us that the bleeding continues on after the guns have gone silent, even if we don't realize it." Brian Turner, award-winning author of Here, Bullet, and veteran of the Iraq War "Meehan explores the complicated anxieties of battle and command with precision and intelligence. He treats colossally horrific situations with admirable emotional restraint, and his strong, taut narrative has a visceral impact. This is a book that ranks among the very best writing that is being done today about events on the frontline in Iraq." James Hutchisson, The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina "For better or for worse, this memoir documents what the war in Iraq has been: young soldiers doing their heartbreaking best to do the right thing amid confusion, chaos and collateral damage." Mary Russell, award-winning author of A Thread of Grace and The SparrowTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Prologue. Chapter One. Chapter Two. Chapter Three. Chapter Four. Chapter Five. Chapter Six. Chapter Seven. Chapter Eight. Chapter Nine. Chapter Ten. Chapter Eleven. Chapter Twelve. Chapter Thirteen. Chapter Fourteen. Chapter Fifteen. Chapter Sixteen. Chapter Seventeen. Chapter Eighteen. Chapter Nineteen. Chapter Twenty. Chapter Twenty-One. Chapter Twenty-Two. Chapter Twenty-Three. Chapter Twenty-Four. Chapter Twenty-Five. Chapter Twenty-Six. Chapter Twenty-Seven. Epilogue.

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Book SynopsisFew countries can claim to have endured such a difficult and tortuous history as that of Iraq. Its varied peoples have had to contend with externally imposed state-building at the end of the First World War, through to the rise of authoritarian military regimes, to the all-encompassing power of Saddam Hussein's dictatorship.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Artificiality, Identity, Dictatorship, and State-Building Chapter 1: Legacies of Civilizations and Empires Chapter 2: State Formation, Monarchy, and Mandate, 1918-1932 Chapter 3: Conceptualizing Iraqi Society Chapter 4: From Authoritarian to Totalitarian State, 1933-1979 Chapter 5: Iraq at War, 1979-1989 Chapter 6: The Pariah State, 1989-2003 Chapter 7: Regime Change, 2003- Chapter 8: From the Brink, to the Brink Chapter 9: The Disintegration of Iraq Chapter 10: The Rise of the Islamic State Conclusion

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Book SynopsisKatyn the Soviet massacre of over 21,000 Polish prisoners in 1940 has come to be remembered as Stalin s emblematic mass murder, an event obscured by one of the most extensive cover-ups in history. Yet paradoxically, a majority of its victims perished far from the forest in western Russia that gives the tragedy its name.Trade Review"An informative survey of the debates occaasioned by the crimes of early 1940." Times Literary Supplement "A fine example of international research collaboration." Russian Review "An important corrective to most recent studies of imperialism, which rarely transcend the national optic." Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research "This book, a rare example of collective scholarship, is more than path-breaking. It manages to move around the furniture in an entire field, that of memory studies, one that is shared by literary scholars, linguists, anthropologists, psychologists, historians and others. This exploration of memory events is essential reading for all students in the social sciences and the humanities." Jay Winter, Yale University "In an exemplary way, this multi-disciplinary in depth case study reconstructs the symbolic legacy of Katyn as a transnational trauma. The book is a unique collective achievement with genuine potential to integrate this key event into European memory." Aleida Assmann, University of Konstanz "The crime of Katyn has bedeviled European memory for decades, and only an ambitious pan-European effort such as this one can reveal every angle of the problem – and some of the solutions." Timothy Snyder, Yale University'This book, a rare example of collective scholarship, is more than path-breaking. It manages to move around the furniture in an entire field, that of memory studies, one that is shared by literary scholars, linguists, anthropologists, psychologists, historians and others. This exploration of memory events is essential reading for all students in the social sciences and the humanities.'Jay Winter, Yale University 'In an exemplary way, this multi-disciplinary in depth case study reconstructs the symbolic legacy of Katyn as a transnational trauma. The book is a unique collective achievement with genuine potential to integrate this key event into European memory.'Aleida Assmann, University of Konstanz 'The crime of Katyn has bedeviled European memory for decades, and only an ambitious pan-European effort such as this one can reveal every angle of the problem – and some of the solutions.'Timothy Snyder, Yale UniversityTable of ContentsContents List of Contributors Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations List of Figures A Note on Translation and Transliteration Map Timeline Introduction: Remembering Katyn Chapter One: Katyn in Poland Chapter Two: Katyn in Katyn Chapter Three: Katyn in Ukraine Chapter Four: Katyn in Belarus Chapter Five: Katyn in the Baltic States Chapter Six: Katyn in Russia Chapter Seven: Katyn in Katyn Coda: ‘Katyn-2' Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThere were eighty of them. They were young, clever and cultivated; they were barely in their thirties when Adolf Hitler came to power. Their university studies in law, economics, linguistics, philosophy and history marked them out for brilliant careers. They chose to join the repressive bodies of the Third Reich, especially the Security Service (SD) and the Nazi Party's elite protection unit, the SS. They theorized and planned the extermination of twenty million individuals of allegedly inferior' races. Most of them became members of the paramilitary death squads known as Einsatzgruppen and participated in the slaughter of over a million people. Based on extensive archival research, Christian Ingrao tells the gripping story of these children of the Great War, focusing on the networks of fellow activists, academics and friends in which they moved, studying the way in which they envisaged war and the world of enemies' which, in their view, threatened them. The mechanisms ofTrade Review"a thoughtful, well researched, and well written addition to the field of perpetrator studies—a work that illustrates convincingly the role of Germany’s “best and brightest” in the prosecution of genocide." Holocaust and Genocide Studies "A chilling collective portrait of a generation blinded by the fervor of their ideology and oblivious to the suffering of others." Wall Street Journal "Packed with useful information on this important Nazi cadre." Standpoint "Presents gripping accounts of particular spectacles of violence and their role in imposing order." Los Angeles Review of Books "With this quest for understanding in mind, Ingrao has undertaken what is clearly a mammoth historical task, and ultimately written an astonishingly profound and in-depth book on a subject that ought never be forgotten." David Marx Book Reviews "This is an important and original study of ideology and experience rather than yet another catalogue of crime, and it therefore offers a different and powerful explanation for how educated men became perpetrators of mass murder." Richard Evans, University of Cambridge "How did highly educated German intellectuals of a certain generation make themselves into believing Nazis, career-minded ideologues, and practitioners of terror? In compelling detail and in a manner consistent with the best accomplishments of recent scholarship, Christian Ingrao guides us astutely and assuredly through this shockingly normalized interior world." Geoffrey Eley, University of MichiganTable of ContentsForeword Acknowledgments Glossary PART ONE: The young men of Germany Chapter 1: A 'world of enemies' (I) The outbreak of war The silence of the Akademiker The 'time of troubles': an experience of war? Chapter 2: Constructing networks Places to study Places of association Networks of solidarity Chapter 3: Activist intellectuals The construction of academic knowledge Knowledge and activism (1919-1933) 'Combative science' and SS intellectuals in the Third Reich The shadow of the Great War PART TWO: Joining the Nazis: a commitment Chapter 4: Being a Nazi The foundations of the doctrine The origins of Nazi fervour: planning a sociobiological re-establishment The appropriation of a system of beliefs Chapter 5: Entering the SD Whether to enter the Party or not? Towards the SD: Nazi careers Recruitment: a social mechanism of enlistenment Chapter 6: From struggle to control From the 'Security Department of the SS' (SD) to the 'Reich Security Main Office' (RSHA) A 'world of enemies' (II) Control PART THREE : Nazism and violence: the culmination 1939-1945 Chapter 7: Thinking the east, between utopia and anxiety The curse of Germanic isolation The Nazi project for a sociobiological re-establishment Redevelop and settle: forms of Nazi fervour Chapter 8: Arguing for war: Nazi rhetoric From the reparative war to the 'Great Racial War' From the discourse of security to the discourse of genocide Expressing violence: defensive rhetorics, utopian rhetorics Chapter 9: Violence in action The experience of violence Demonstrative violence, violence of eradication A transgressive violence Violence as rite of initiation Chapter 10: SS intellectuals confronting defeat Defeat rendered unreal Finis Germaniae. The return of the old anxiety The denouement Chapter 11: SS intellectuals on trial Strategies of negation Strategies of evasion Strategies of justification: the Ohlendorf case Conclusion: Memory of war, activism and genocide Notes Sources and bibliography A piece of research and its context A specific conceptual framework List of archival collections consulted Printed sources Bibliography

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Book Synopsis* This is a highly original study of everyday life in the Nazi concentration camps. * Suderland examines the ways in which prisoners coped with the degrading conditions of the camps, by looking closely at their daily activities and routines, as well as the social relationships and networks they created.Trade Review"Maja Suderland has written an innovative and tremendously exciting book. The meticulous examination of the complex reality of the concentration camps, the balanced analysis and careful reading which makes it possible to detect the finest nuances, and finally, the clear, precise and differentiated language make this an outstanding sociological work that sets new standards."Beate Krais, Technical University of Darmstadt "Maja Suderland's book is the first convincing sociological analysis of the Nazi concentration camps. She goes beyond specific historical cases and achieves an analytical depth which explains how the concentration camps functioned in terms of the social categories we are familiar with from 'normal' society."Claus Füllberg-Stolberg, Leibniz University, Hannover "This is clearly a unique study."(Choice)Table of ContentsForeword by Beate Krais Preface Translator’s note A. Introduction 1. Topic and research question 2. The ‘Third Reich’ and the Nazi concentration camps 2.1. The establishment of the Nazi concentration camps: Historical, social and legal background 2.2. Germany and its forcible detention camps 2.3. The organizational structure of the concentration camps 2.4. The concentration camp SS and guards 2.5. Summary: A complex interrelationship B. Sociological avenues of inquiry 3. Introductory comments on the disciplinary context and methods 3.1. Empirical material and methodological approach 3.2. The impossibility of representing reality and the special characteristics of Holocaust literature 3.3. The relationship between historical scholarship and sociology 4. Sociological orientations 4.1. Preliminary remarks: The sociology of Pierre Bourdieu and the use of other central theoretical ideas 4.2. The ‘basic concepts’ of society 4.2.1 Individuals and society: Views of a complex relationship 4.2.2 Classes and ways of life: Social differentiation 4.2.3 Gender: Physical characteristics and their symbolic significance for social differentiation 4.2.4 ‘Ethnic group’ and caste: The belief in genetic kinship and the notion of social inescapability 4.2.5. Summary: Habitus and society 4.3. Concentration camps 4.3.1. The significance of physical torture: Michel Foucault’s restoration of sovereignty through ‘the vengeance of the sovereign’ and the ‘dissymmetry of forces’ 4.3.2. ‘Total institutions’ and the possibility of surviving one: Erving Goffman’s ‘secondary adjustments’ 4.3.3. Suppressing the ‘odors’ of death: Zygmunt Bauman’s concept of culture 4.4. A theoretical perspective: The complex society of the ‘Third Reich’ and the social reality in the forcible detention camps C. The social world of the Nazi concentration camps 5. Camp life 5.1. Arrival and registration of the prisoners at the camp or: How the ‘practical logic’ of the camp gradually revealed itself to the prisoners 5.2. Prisoner life: Recurring processes 5.3. Three levels of sociality 5.4. Summary: A micro-sociological view of the intricacies of complex camp life or: How many realities were there? 6. Prisoner society 6.1. Fragmentation, dissociation, community-building: Social processes 6.2. Regular prisoners, armband wearers, camp aristocracy: The mass and the elite 6.3. Men, women, children or: What’s still normal here? 6.4. Summary: An examination of the structure of the prisoner society or: The significance of similarity and difference D. Social libido 7. The constitution of social identity in the concentration camps: The concepts of individuality and the importance of social structures in a ‘topsy-turvy world’ E. Notes to the text F. Bibliography

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Book Synopsis* This is a highly original study of everyday life in the Nazi concentration camps. * Suderland examines the ways in which prisoners coped with the degrading conditions of the camps, by looking closely at their daily activities and routines, as well as the social relationships and networks they created.Trade Review"Maja Suderland has written an innovative and tremendously exciting book. The meticulous examination of the complex reality of the concentration camps, the balanced analysis and careful reading which makes it possible to detect the finest nuances, and finally, the clear, precise and differentiated language make this an outstanding sociological work that sets new standards."Beate Krais, Technical University of Darmstadt "Maja Suderland's book is the first convincing sociological analysis of the Nazi concentration camps. She goes beyond specific historical cases and achieves an analytical depth which explains how the concentration camps functioned in terms of the social categories we are familiar with from 'normal' society."Claus Füllberg-Stolberg, Leibniz University, Hannover "This is clearly a unique study."(Choice)Table of ContentsForeword by Beate Krais Preface Translator’s note A. Introduction 1. Topic and research question 2. The ‘Third Reich’ and the Nazi concentration camps 2.1. The establishment of the Nazi concentration camps: Historical, social and legal background 2.2. Germany and its forcible detention camps 2.3. The organizational structure of the concentration camps 2.4. The concentration camp SS and guards 2.5. Summary: A complex interrelationship B. Sociological avenues of inquiry 3. Introductory comments on the disciplinary context and methods 3.1. Empirical material and methodological approach 3.2. The impossibility of representing reality and the special characteristics of Holocaust literature 3.3. The relationship between historical scholarship and sociology 4. Sociological orientations 4.1. Preliminary remarks: The sociology of Pierre Bourdieu and the use of other central theoretical ideas 4.2. The ‘basic concepts’ of society 4.2.1 Individuals and society: Views of a complex relationship 4.2.2 Classes and ways of life: Social differentiation 4.2.3 Gender: Physical characteristics and their symbolic significance for social differentiation 4.2.4 ‘Ethnic group’ and caste: The belief in genetic kinship and the notion of social inescapability 4.2.5. Summary: Habitus and society 4.3. Concentration camps 4.3.1. The significance of physical torture: Michel Foucault’s restoration of sovereignty through ‘the vengeance of the sovereign’ and the ‘dissymmetry of forces’ 4.3.2. ‘Total institutions’ and the possibility of surviving one: Erving Goffman’s ‘secondary adjustments’ 4.3.3. Suppressing the ‘odors’ of death: Zygmunt Bauman’s concept of culture 4.4. A theoretical perspective: The complex society of the ‘Third Reich’ and the social reality in the forcible detention camps C. The social world of the Nazi concentration camps 5. Camp life 5.1. Arrival and registration of the prisoners at the camp or: How the ‘practical logic’ of the camp gradually revealed itself to the prisoners 5.2. Prisoner life: Recurring processes 5.3. Three levels of sociality 5.4. Summary: A micro-sociological view of the intricacies of complex camp life or: How many realities were there? 6. Prisoner society 6.1. Fragmentation, dissociation, community-building: Social processes 6.2. Regular prisoners, armband wearers, camp aristocracy: The mass and the elite 6.3. Men, women, children or: What’s still normal here? 6.4. Summary: An examination of the structure of the prisoner society or: The significance of similarity and difference D. Social libido 7. The constitution of social identity in the concentration camps: The concepts of individuality and the importance of social structures in a ‘topsy-turvy world’ E. Notes to the text F. Bibliography

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Book SynopsisKelsey''s observations range from descriptions of the Battle of Britain from the ground, bombing raids on civilian populations, and a meeting with a possible German spy, to more personal accounts of the difficulties of obtaining a bath. She and her husband were reunited on his quarterly leaves and the journal records their travels through much of England, Ireland and Scotland amid air raids, bombings, and machine-gun fire, providing a unique travelogue of Britain in the 1940s. Through Kelsey''s depiction of life the Women''s Land Army the reader discovers -- as Kelsey came to realize -- that agricultural work was vital to the overall war effort in Britain.

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Book SynopsisAround the world and for hundreds of years, men and women have refused to be drafted into bearing arms for their nations'' wars. These conscientious objectors to the draft are the subject of Peter Brock''s latest collection, Against the Draft. Brock, the world''s leading historian on pacifism, has assembled twenty-five of his essays on conscientious objection to the draft from the beginning of the Radical Reformation in 1525 to the end of the Second World War. Included in the collection are essays on little known facets of the anti-draft movement including the Anabaptist-Mennonite tradition of military exemption that started with the outset of the Radical Reformation in 1525 and has continued, with variations, until the present. Further articles deal with the Quakers in a number of countries, Civil-war America, Leo Tolstoy (who became a convinced pacifist in the later part of his life), British conscientious objectors in the Non-Combatant Corps, the emergence of conscientiTrade Review"'Peter Brock is a historian's historian; that is, his is concerned with the historiography of his approach as well as his findings. He has long been, and now clearly remains, the premier historian of conscientious objection not only in his main areas of concentration, which are impressive in their number (E. Europe, Holland, Britain, the US) but, by extension, for the whole field of war resistance.' - Michael Nagler, Department of Peace and Conflict Studies, University of California at Berkeley"Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword by Martin Ceadel Acknowledgments Introduction * Conscientious Objection among the Polish Antitrinitarians * A Polish Antitrinitarian in Defence of Conscientious Objection to Military Service (1575) * Conscientious Objection among the Doopsgezinden * Experiences of Quakers Pressed into the Royal Navy * Conscientious Objectors in Revolutionary and Napoleonic France * The Peace Sects of Upper Canada and the Military Question * Militia Objectors in the Channel Islands * When Seventh-day Adventists First Faced the Draft: Civil-War America * Quaker Conscientious Objectors in Norway, 1814-1902 * Nazarenes Confront Conscription in Dualist Hungary * Tolstoy and the Imprisonment of Conscientious Objectors in Imperial Russia * The Skarvan Case: The Trial and Imprisonment of a Slovak Tolstoyan * The Emergence of Conscientious Objection in Japan * 'Boy Conscription' in Australia and New Zealand: The Experiences of the Conscientious Resisters * Prison Samizdat of British Conscientious Objectors in Two World Wars * Weaponless in the British Armed Forces: The Non-Combatant Corps in the First World War * Hobhouse and Brockway: Conscientious Objectors as Pioneer Convict Criminologists * The Confinement of Conscientious Objectors as Psychiatric Patients in First-World-War Germany * Imperial Russia at War and the Conscientious Objector, August 1914 - February 1917 * Vladimir Chertkov and the Tolstoyan Antimilitarist Movement in the Soviet Union * Experiences of Conscientious Objectors in the Soviet Union to 1945 * Conscientious Objectors in Interwar Poland * Six Weeks at Hawkspur Green: A Pacifist Episode during the Battle of Britain * British Conscientious Objectors as Medical Paratroopers in the Second World War * Jehovah's Witnesses as Conscientious Objectors in Nazi Germany Index

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Book SynopsisOffers a new picture of Hitler's conduct in World War II and a reinterpretation of the course of the war. Stolfi argues that but for one fateful decision by Hitler, which gave the defenders of Moscow time to regroup, Germany could have won the war in the summer of 1941.

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Book SynopsisFocusing on the Zhytomyr region and weaving together official German war-time records, diaries, memoirs, and personal interviews, this work provides an assessment of German colonization and the Holocaust in Ukraine. It shifts attention from Germany itself to the eastern outposts of the Reich, where the regime truly revealed its core beliefs.Trade Review"Excellent." - Times Literary Supplement"

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Book SynopsisFew countries attribute as much importance to the Second World War and its memory as Britain. Long Shadows is about how literature and film have helped shape this process. More precisely, these essays suggest that this is a continuous work in progress, subject to transgenerational revisions, political expediencies, commercial considerations, and the vicissitudes of popular taste.

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Book SynopsisBoth the Iraqi and the American people want the United States to withdraw from Iraq. How to Get Out of Iraq with Integrity presents an incisive and bold argument that shows how to do just that without betraying U.S. commitments to Arabs, Kurds, or democracy.Trade Review"Brendan O'Leary asks all Americans, whether they supported or opposed the Iraq war, to think very carefully about getting out. His tough-minded argument for withdrawal and his sober and wise design for an honorable exit deserve our closest attention." * Michael Walzer, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University *"Brendan O'Leary argues that, amid all the chaos, bloodshed, and mismanagement, the outstanding achievement of post-Saddam Iraq is the 2005 constitution. Hammered out between Iraqis without dictation by the Americans, it represents the only basis for an honorable American withdrawal-as long as the United States, Iraq's neighbors, and Iraqis themselves respect it and treat it as the indispensable template for a stable future, which Professor O'Leary convincingly argues that it is. This passionate and perceptive book should be required reading for the new Administration." * Martin Woollacott, Foreign Correspondent, The Guardian *Table of ContentsPreface PART I. EVALUATING THE U.S.-LED INTERVENTION IN IRAQ Chapter 1. The Bush Administration's Formal Goals Chapter 2. Bipartisan Congressional Goals for Iraq Chapter 3. The Imputed Goals of the Bush Administration PART II. THE CASE FOR A SUBSTANTIVE WITHDRAWAL Chapter 4. Costs, Sunk Costs, and Potential Benefits Chapter 5. Securing the Iraqi Federation for All Its Peoples PART III. LEAVING WITH INTEGRITY Chapter 6. Respecting Iraq's Constitutional Integrity Chapter 7. Respecting Iraq's Territorial Integrity Chapter 8. Informing, Calming, and Working with the Neighbors. Chapter 9. Cleaning Up Without Ruling Appendices 1. On Difficulties in Counting Deaths in Iraq 2. Xenophobia, Sexism, In-Group Solidarity, Traditional Religiosity, and Democratic Dispositions in Iraq Notes Index Acknowledgments and Sources

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Book SynopsisIn Getting Out, a diverse cast of noted scholars and journalists considers how the United States might leave Iraq by examining seven historical case studies on how to and how not to withdraw from occupied territory.Trade Review"An arresting, morally serious book, of the sort that readers have come to expect from the precincts of Dissent." * Sean Wilentz, author of The Rise of American Democracy: Jackson to Lincoln *"From Stanley Weintraub's crisp essay on Great Britain's withdrawal from the Colonies after its defeat in the American Revolutionary War to studies of much more recent disengagements, the contributions offer a variety of useful and stimulating perspectives on the complex problems involved in orderly withdrawals." * Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Affairs *"This admirable book makes it plain that one reason why military occupations are, in general, a bad idea, is that exit ramps get blocked and horrors ensue. It is morally evident that, for the occupying power, there is no end to responsibilities, which begin even in nightmares. This is not a book that offers simple recipes for Iraq or Afghanistan. But people of all persuasions should read it to deepen their awareness of the moral imperatives." * Todd Gitlin, Columbia University *"This collection will appeal to a broad audience. Excellent at dealing with a complicated topic both historically and in terms of the current situation in Iraq, it will appeal to anyone interested in the fate of our world today." * Library Journal *Table of ContentsIntroduction —Michael Walzer LESSONS FROM THE PAST 1. No Exit but Victory: Britain and the American Colonies —Stanley Weintraub 2. America and the Philippines: The Graceful Withdrawal —Stanley Karnow 3. India and Britain: The Consequences of Leaving Too Soon —Rajeev Bhargava 4. The Surprising Success: The United States and Korea —Fred Smoler 5. France and Algeria: Claim Victory and Au Revoir —Todd Shepard 6. Vietnam and the United States: The Price of Intransigence —Frances FitzGerald 7. The Gates of Gaza and the Limits of Power: Israel and Gaza —Shlomo Avineri GETTING IN/GETTING OUT 8. 9/11 and the Road to Iraq —Nicolaus Mills 9. The Persistence of Empire —David Bromwich 10. Departing Responsibly —Brendan O'Leary 11. It Isn't Over —George Packer List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisThis volume puts to rest the myth that the Jews went passively to the slaughter like sheep. Indeed Jews resisted in every Nazi-occupied country in the forests, the ghettos, and the concentration camps. The essays presented here consider Jewish resistance to be resistance by Jewish persons in specifically Jewish groups, or by Jewish persons working within non-Jewish organisations.

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Book SynopsisCultures of War in Graphic Novels examines the representation of small-scale and often less acknowledged conflicts from around the world and throughout history in graphic novels. The book explores the multi-layered relation between the graphic novel as a popular medium and war as a pivotal recurring experience in human history. Trade Review"What makes this collection exciting and groundbreaking is its eagerness to look beyond familiar works devoted to familiar conflicts. The result is a refreshingly non-USA-centric survey of the graphic novel medium and its engagement with trauma and collective memory." -- Steven Trout * coeditor of War+Ink: New Perspectives on Ernest Hemingway's Early Life and Writings *Spotlight of Cultures of War in Graphic Novels on The War and Media * The War and Media *"Chronicle of Higher Education weekly book list," by Nina C. Ayoub * Chronicle of Higher Education *"Highly recommended." * Choice *"A thought-provoking work about the nature of war, memory, culture, and the ways we tell those stories." * H-Net *Table of ContentsIntroduction Tatiana Prorokova and Nimrod Tal Part I: Representations Chapter 1: “A Clash of Arms to Be Eternally Remembered”: War, Chivalry, and the Hundred Years War in Le Trône d'Argile and Crécy Iain A. MacInnes Chapter 2: Graphic Narrative and the War on Terror Kenton Worcester Chapter 3: What Is War in the Bosnian Graphic Novel Emir Pasanovic Part II: Non-Combatants’ Experiences Chapter 4: “The Sky Is Darkened by Gods”: Spirituality, Strength, and Violence in Gene Luen Yang’s Boxers and Saints Harriet E.H. Earle Chapter 5: Unseen Scars: Recalling Traumatic Moments in Individuals with PTSD in War Brothers James Kelley Chapter 6: Nat Turner, Slave Revolts, and Child-Killing in US Graphic Novels Joe Lockard Chapter 7: Sinne Fianna Fáil: Women, Irish Rebellions, and the Graphic Novels of Gerry Hunt Christina M. Knopf Chapter 8: “The Children Internalize the Meaning of the Occupation”: Growing Up under Israeli Occupation and a Culture of Resistance in Joe Sacco’s Palestine Peter C. Valenti Part III: Memories Chapter 9: The Malvinas War in Argentine Memory: Graphic Representations of Defeat and Nationalism, 1982-2015 Silvia G. Kurlat Ares Chapter 10: The Haunting Power of War: Remembering the Rwandan Genocide in 99 Days Tatiana Prorokova Chapter 11: Blogging in Times of War: The July 2006 War in Lebanon, Mazen Kerbaj Imaging the Unimaginable Yasmine Nachabe Taan Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTraces a new aesthetic history of the World War II combat genre by looking back at it through the lens of contemporary video games. Tanine Allison locates some of video games' glorification of violence, disruptive audiovisual style, and bodily sensation in even the most canonical and seemingly conservative films of the genre.Trade Review“The spectacular violence of war cinema is explored with insight and subtlety in this fine volume. Centered on expressive violence as the signature subject of WWII film and video, Allison's important study embraces a subject that is often ignored -- the allure of screen violence in the genres of war representation.”— Robert Burgoyne, author of "The Hollywood Historical Film" “Destructive Sublime is a beautifully written, clearly conceived, and well theorized reconceptualization of how combat sequences offer counternarratives that trouble the notion of World War II as the 'good war.' Deploying theorists such as Edmund Burke, Paul Virilio, and André Bazin, Tanine Allison has provided us with crucial formal language to read the spatial relations and aesthetics of combat, from the understudied insertions of documentary footage into fiction films to the visceral pleasures of digital renditions of battles in video games. This is exciting work and should be required reading for anyone in the fields of digital studies, media studies, film studies, and war studies.”— Anna Froula, co-editor of Reframing 9/11: Film, Popular Culture, and the 'War on Terror' “Tanine Allison challenges our conventional understanding of Hollywood’s World War II combat movies. She skillfully demonstrates how their scenes of violence and destruction counter the myths about a 'good war' or a 'greatest generation.'”— Stephen Prince, author of Classical Film Violence and Savage Cinema “A compelling contribution to research on war and representation.” — Stacy Takacs, author of Terrorism TV: Popular Entertainment in Post-9/11 America "Chronicle of Higher Eduction weekly book list," by Nina C. Ayoub— Chronicle of Higher Education "Refocusing our attention on World War Two combat sequences, Allison usefully unsettles the generic construction of 'the good war,' highlighting the diverse and often contradictory aesthetic forms and affective appeals that structure the representation of violence in American film and media. Through consideration of production histories and contemporary critical reception alongside close textual analysis, the book offers a timely and accessible account of material that remains formative to the cultural imagination of war today."— Jonna Eagle, Professor of American Studies at University of Hawai'i, ManoaTable of ContentsIntroduction: A Retrospective Look at the World War II Combat Genre 1 “No Faking Here”: The New Authenticity of Wartime Combat Documentaries 2 The “Good War”? Style and Space in 1940s Combat Films 3 Rationalizing War: Reconstructions of World War II During the Cold War and Vietnam 4 Nostalgia for Combat: World War II at the End of Cinema 5 Simulating War on an Algorithmic Playground Conclusion: A Bad War? The World War II Combat Genre Now Acknowledgments Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn the American popular imaginary, the Second World War remains the prime example of American virtue—the country is typified by individual and collective heroism. Destructive Sublime complicates the oversimplified and commonly held view that film and video portray the war in ways that are conservative, both politically and aesthetically. Trade Review“A compelling contribution to research on war and representation.” -- Stacy Takacs * author of Terrorism TV: Popular Entertainment in Post-9/11 America *"Refocusing our attention on World War Two combat sequences, Allison usefully unsettles the generic construction of 'the good war,' highlighting the diverse and often contradictory aesthetic forms and affective appeals that structure the representation of violence in American film and media. Through consideration of production histories and contemporary critical reception alongside close textual analysis, the book offers a timely and accessible account of material that remains formative to the cultural imagination of war today." -- Jonna Eagle * Professor of American Studies at University of Hawai'i, Manoa *“The spectacular violence of war cinema is explored with insight and subtlety in this fine volume. Centered on expressive violence as the signature subject of WWII film and video, Allison's important study embraces a subject that is often ignored -- the allure of screen violence in the genres of war representation.” -- Robert Burgoyne * author of "The Hollywood Historical Film" *“Tanine Allison challenges our conventional understanding of Hollywood’s World War II combat movies. She skillfully demonstrates how their scenes of violence and destruction counter the myths about a 'good war' or a 'greatest generation.'” -- Stephen Prince * author of Classical Film Violence and Savage Cinema *“Destructive Sublime is a beautifully written, clearly conceived, and well theorized reconceptualization of how combat sequences offer counternarratives that trouble the notion of World War II as the 'good war.' Deploying theorists such as Edmund Burke, Paul Virilio, and André Bazin, Tanine Allison has provided us with crucial formal language to read the spatial relations and aesthetics of combat, from the understudied insertions of documentary footage into fiction films to the visceral pleasures of digital renditions of battles in video games. This is exciting work and should be required reading for anyone in the fields of digital studies, media studies, film studies, and war studies.” -- Anna Froula * co-editor of Reframing 9/11: Film, Popular Culture, and the 'War on Terror' *"Chronicle of Higher Eduction weekly book list," by Nina C. Ayoub * Chronicle of Higher Education *“A compelling contribution to research on war and representation.” -- Stacy Takacs * author of Terrorism TV: Popular Entertainment in Post-9/11 America *"Refocusing our attention on World War Two combat sequences, Allison usefully unsettles the generic construction of 'the good war,' highlighting the diverse and often contradictory aesthetic forms and affective appeals that structure the representation of violence in American film and media. Through consideration of production histories and contemporary critical reception alongside close textual analysis, the book offers a timely and accessible account of material that remains formative to the cultural imagination of war today." -- Jonna Eagle * Professor of American Studies at University of Hawai'i, Manoa *“The spectacular violence of war cinema is explored with insight and subtlety in this fine volume. Centered on expressive violence as the signature subject of WWII film and video, Allison's important study embraces a subject that is often ignored -- the allure of screen violence in the genres of war representation.” -- Robert Burgoyne * author of "The Hollywood Historical Film" *“Tanine Allison challenges our conventional understanding of Hollywood’s World War II combat movies. She skillfully demonstrates how their scenes of violence and destruction counter the myths about a 'good war' or a 'greatest generation.'” -- Stephen Prince * author of Classical Film Violence and Savage Cinema *“Destructive Sublime is a beautifully written, clearly conceived, and well theorized reconceptualization of how combat sequences offer counternarratives that trouble the notion of World War II as the 'good war.' Deploying theorists such as Edmund Burke, Paul Virilio, and André Bazin, Tanine Allison has provided us with crucial formal language to read the spatial relations and aesthetics of combat, from the understudied insertions of documentary footage into fiction films to the visceral pleasures of digital renditions of battles in video games. This is exciting work and should be required reading for anyone in the fields of digital studies, media studies, film studies, and war studies.” -- Anna Froula * co-editor of Reframing 9/11: Film, Popular Culture, and the 'War on Terror' *"Chronicle of Higher Eduction weekly book list," by Nina C. Ayoub * Chronicle of Higher Education *Table of ContentsIntroduction: A Retrospective Look at the World War II Combat Genre 1 “No Faking Here”: The New Authenticity of Wartime Combat Documentaries 2 The “Good War”? Style and Space in 1940s Combat Films 3 Rationalizing War: Reconstructions of World War II During the Cold War and Vietnam 4 Nostalgia for Combat: World War II at the End of Cinema 5 Simulating War on an Algorithmic Playground Conclusion: A Bad War? The World War II Combat Genre Now Acknowledgments Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisNavy Records Society Publications, Vol 165Table of ContentsCONTENTS P age Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi Glossary of Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii General Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxiii Part I: 1942: Climax in the Mediterranean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Part II: 1943: The Escort Carrier Comes of Age . . . . . . . . . . . . 293 Sources and Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Delightfully titled, well researched and written, [this book] covers the mobilization's effects on life in Alabama, how women were recruited and trained, the kinds of defense jobs they acquired, how the companies, the public and women themselves adjusted to wartime developments, and the kind of volunteer activities the women did." - American Historical Review

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Book SynopsisThe memoir of an African American man who, through dedication to his goals and vision, rose through the despair of racial segregation to great heights of accomplishment, not only as a military aviator, but also as an educator and as an American citizen.Trade ReviewA very valuable addition to the available literature on the Tuskegee Airmen from a first-person point of view."" - Daniel L. Haulman, author of Eleven Myths about the Tuskegee Airmen and The Tuskegee Airmen and the “Never Lost a Bomber” Myth and coauthor of The Tuskegee Airmen: An Illustrated History, 1939–1949""Brown describes in compelling, firsthand detail what it was like to be a Tuskegee Airman, why at least one young African American man wanted to participate in the historical experience in the first place, and what difference it made in the arc of his life. Brown's personality is evident "A worthy addition to the Tuskegee Airmen canon." - Publishers Weekly

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Book SynopsisTakes a holistic and integrative approach to strategy, operations, and tactics during the Korean War's stalemate period and demonstrates how these matters shaped each other and influenced, or were influenced by, political and strategic policy decision-making.Trade Review“Korean Showdown links the tactical, operational, and strategic levels for the two Koreas, the US, and the People’s Republic of China. For the first time in an English language work, this book shows the Chinese side of this dynamic and how it interacted with the American side on all three levels.” —William M. Donnelly, author of Under Army Orders: The Army National Guard during the Korean War“Dr. Gibby offers one of the best US military history studies on the Korean War by successfully examining how the US Army applied total war experience and training to a new limited war and accomplished Washington’s Cold War political goal in East Asia. A milestone in US military history research of the Korean War. He focuses on the US war strategy and operations of 1952, the most forgotten year of the ‘forgotten war.’ His well-researched study provides a better understanding of the military historiography of the Korean War and essential to understanding general trends in military cultures of the United States. It is highly recommended.” —Xiaobing Li, author of A History of the Modern Chinese Army “Bryan Gibby has made a major contribution to military history with this detailed description of an often-forgotten year in an often-forgotten war. Yet this experience trying to apply coercion in a limited war 70 years ago is still very relevant to the problems of contemporary war termination. Scholars and soldiers, as well as policy makers, will profit from reading this thoughtful book.” —Conrad C. Crane, author of American Airpower Strategy in Korea, 1950-1953

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