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Cambridge University Press Conflict over Convoys
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Cambridge University Press In the Shadow of the Holocaust The Second Generation
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Cambridge University Press Foundational Pasts The Holocaust as Historical Understanding
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Cambridge University Press Conflict over Convoys AngloAmerican Logistics Diplomacy in the Second World War
Book SynopsisConflict over Convoys examines the Battle of the Atlantic from the perspective of Anglo-American diplomacy, deepening our understanding of Allied grand strategy, British industrial policy, and operations TORCH and OVERLORD. Failure to build and maintain enough ships to feed the people and wage war made Britain dependent upon American-built merchant ships and American logistical support, yet British strategists aspired to dominate Allied strategy, while Roosevelt mismanaged merchant shipping allocations. The resulting gap between strategic ambition and logistical reality embittered the controversy over the 'Second Front'. Victory in the Atlantic finally led to American dominance of Allied logistics diplomacy and strategy. Conflict over Convoys relates these tensions to the decline of British hegemony and the rise of the USA to global influence.Trade Review"...this book is solid and well researched....Smith has used a wealth of private and public sources, mostly British, but many American as well, to buttress his story. He well illustrates the logistical problems of the alliance and the interaction between civilians and the military in achieving hard-fought consensus over military strategy during the war." The Journal of American History"I highly recommend the book as a significant contribution to both military history and the history of the Second World War, its wide scope highlights a number of subjects....Smith's excellent footnotes and comprehensive bibliography will provide scholars with a valuable guide to future studies." Keith W. Bird, The Journal of Military History"Overall this book is solid and well researched....Smith has used a wealth of private and public sources, mostly British but many American as well, to buttress his story. He well illustrates the logistical problems of the alliance and the interaction between civilians and the military in acieving hard-fought consensus over military strategy during the war." Richard W. Fanning, Journal of American History"...Smith has made an important contribution to our knowledge of numerous aspects of the World War II Grand Alliance." Mark A. Stoler, American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. 'Not what it could or should be': Britain's shipping situation; 2. 'Beyond our power without your help': Britain's Battle of the Atlantic; 3. 'But westward, look, the land is bright': American shipping assistance from neutrality to belligerency, March 1941–November 1942; 4. Roosevelt's promise: 'Your requirements will be met'; 5. The Casablanca Conference and its aftermath: a 'most curious misunderstanding'; 6. Reaping the whirlwind: the perils of impending victory; Postscript and conclusions; Appendices.
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Cambridge University Press Diplomacy and Intelligence During the Second World War
Book SynopsisThis collection of specially commissioned essays has been assembled as a tribute to Professor F. H. Hinsley, the foremost historian of British wartime intelligence. Strategic topics include the rapid collapse of France in 1940, Britain's response to it, and Russia's demand for a second front in Europe.Table of ContentsPart I: 1. Introduction Richard Langhorne; 2. F. H. Hinsley and a rational world order: an essay in bibliography Jonathan Steinberg; 3. F. H. Hinsley and the Cambridge moles: two patterns of intelligence recruitment Christopher Andrew; Part II: 4. Strategy, arms and the collapse of France 1930–40 Bradford A. Lee; 5. Vansittart's administration of the Foreign Office in the 1930s Donald Boadle; 6. Italy's historians and the myth of Fascism Richard Bosworth; Part III: 7. The political uses of military intelligence: evaluating the threat of a Jewish revolt against Britain during the Second World War Ronald Zweig; 8. The politics of asylum, Juan Negrín and the British Government in 1940 Denis Smyth; 9. Churchill and the British 'Decision' to fight on in 1940: right policy, wrong reasons David Reynolds; 10. Britain and the Russian entry into the war Sheila Lawlor; 11. Crowning the revolution: the British, King Peter and the path to Tito's cave Mark Wheeler; 12. Franklin Roosevelt and Unconditional Surrender A. E. Campbell; Part IV: 13. Crimes against peace: the case of the invasion of Norway at the Nuremberg Trials Patrick Salmon; Notes; Bibliography of the writings of F. H. Hinsley; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Stafford Cripps Mission to Moscow 1940 42
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Cambridge University Press The Bread of Affliction The Food Supply in the USSR during World War II 76 Cambridge Russian Soviet and PostSoviet Studies Series Number 76
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Cambridge University Press At the Front Line
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Cambridge University Press Turkish Foreign Policy during WW2 An Active Neutrality LSE Monographs in International Studies
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Cambridge University Press The Republic in Danger General Maurice Gamelin and the Politics of French Defence 19331940
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Cambridge University Press American Samurai
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Cambridge University Press A Partnership for Disorder
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Cambridge University Press The Civilian Population and the Warsaw Uprising of 1944
Book SynopsisThis book analyses of their reaction to the battle itself and to its political and diplomatic implications. It is a study, where possible, of public opinion. The first chapter of the book is a detailed description of life in occupied Warsaw from 1939 to 1944, as this forms an indispensable background to the work.Table of Contents1. Social structure of Warsaw in 1931; 2. Employment in Warsaw industries, October 1941; 3. Wage rates for manual and clerical workers, January 1943; 4. Wage index of municipal manual workers; 5. Free market prices in Warsaw; 6. Availability of electrivity in Polish districts; 7. Comparison of Polish and German monthly ration cards; 8. Percentage and causes of death in Warsaw, 1939–41; 9. Type of persons using soup kitchens, 1941; 10. Distribution of clothing by relief organisations in Warsaw, September 1939–May 1944; 11. Conditions and morale in various houses in Sródmiescie, 31 August 1944; 12. Allocation of water; 13. Comparison of losses in human lives in countries under Nazi occupation.
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Cambridge University Press The Baltic and the Outbreak of the Second World War
Book SynopsisThis book is the first to highlight the importance of the Baltic region in the approach to war in 1939. Amid the welter of publications on the origins of the Second World War none has sought hitherto to focus on the Baltic region, where peace finally and irrevocably broke down.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. Introduction: Baltic security problems between the two World Wars John Hiden; 2. Great Britain and the Baltic in the last months of peace, March–August 1939 Mieczyslaw Nurek; 3. Nazi German policy towards the Baltic states on the eve of the Second World War Rolf Ahmann; 4. The role of Danzig in Polish-German relations on the eve of the Second World War Anita Prazmowska; 5. Great Britain, the Soviet Union and Finland at the beginning of the Second World War Patrick Salmon; 6. The attitude of the Scandinavian countries to Nazi Germany's war preparations and its aggression on Poland Bogdan Koszel; 7. The Soviet occupation of Poland through British eyes Thomas Lane; 8. The meeting of the Lithuanian Cabinet, 15 June 1940 Alfonsas Eidintas; Index.
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Cambridge University Press A Partnership for Disorder
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Cambridge University Press Legacies of Dachau The Uses and Abuses of a Concentration Camp 19332001
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Cambridge University Press Britain Southeast Asia and the Onset of the Pacific War
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Cambridge University Press At the Front Line
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Cambridge University Press Britain and the Politics of Modernization in the Middle East 19451958 Cambridge Middle East Studies Series Number 4
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Cambridge University Press Germany Hitler and World War II
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Cambridge University Press Hiroshima in History and Memory
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Cambridge University Press The Aftermath
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Cambridge University Press Ethics and Extermination
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Cambridge University Press Ethics and Extermination Reflections on Nazi Genocide
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Cambridge University Press In the Shadow of the Holocaust The Second Generation
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Cambridge University Press A Nation Collapses
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Cambridge University Press Divided Arsenal
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Cambridge University Press Buried by the Times
Book SynopsisAn in-depth look at how The New York Times failed in its coverage of the fate of European Jews from 1939–45. It examines the many decisions that were made at The Times, that ultimately resulted in the minimizing, misunderstanding, and dilution of modern history's worst genocide.Trade Review'This is the best book yet about American media coverage of the Holocaust, as well as an extremely important contribution to our understanding of America's response to the mass murder of the Jews.' David S. Wyman, author of The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust'A brilliant history, one whose insights offer editors much about today.' Columbia Journalism Review'A dispassionate and impeccably fair account … As a portrait of the journalistic culture of the Times in wartime, it is unlikely to be superseded.' Commentary'… a superbly researched work that seems to me one of the most devastating books ever written about a newspaper.' National Post (Canada)'The light which Laurel Leff sheds on US government policy adds to the value of her densely documented and judiciously written study. It is a model of research with serious implications for how the press covers atrocity and genocide in our own times.' Jewish Chronicle'… Laurel Leff's study of the reporting of the Holocaust in the pages of the New York Times does more than simply fill a gap by offering an in-dpeth study of America's most significant daily … her book stands as a model for future studies in this sub-field of Holocaust Studies … [and] makes the book of interest not only to those wanting to know what the New York Times reported on the Holocaust. Leff's study offers a broader insight into Americn Jews in the wartime years, and in particular the relationship between one American Jew and his Jewishness.' Journal of Jewish Studies'A highly readable and scrupulously researched book about an important journalistic failure.' AJS ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction: the last voice from the abyss; Part I. 1933–41: 1. 'Not a Jewish problem': the publisher's perspective on the Nazis' rise and the refugee crisis; 2. 'This here is Germany': reporting from the Berlin bureau; 3. 'Worthy of France': the Vichy government's anti-semitic laws and concentration camps; 4. 'A new life in Nazi-built ghettos': German domination of Poland, Rumania and the Baltic States; Part II 1941–5: 5. 'To awaken the conscience of Christendom': pressure to publicize the first news of the extermination campaign; 6. 'Amidst the advertisements on page 19': placement decisions and the role of the news editors; 7. 'All Jews are not brothers': the publisher's battle with Zionists; 8. 'The semitic question should be avoided': German atrocities and US Government propaganda; 9. 'Final phase of supreme tragedy has begun': the War Refugee Board and the destruction of Hungary's Jews; 10. 'Political prisoners, slave laborers and civilians of many nationalities': the liberation of the concentration camps; 11. 'Lessons from the Hitler tragedy': the publisher and the aftermath of war; Conclusion: 'the horrible story was not told'.
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Cambridge University Press Australias Forgotten Prisoners Civilians Interned By The Japanese In World War Two
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Cambridge University Press eichmannsmen
Book SynopsisMore than sixty years after the advent of the National Socialist genocides, the question still remains: how could a state-sponsored terror that took the lives of millions of men, women, and children, persecuted as Jews or Gypsies, happen? Now available in English, Hans Safrian's path-breaking work on Adolf Eichmann and his Nazi helpers chronicles the escalation of Nazi anti-Semitic policies beginning in 1933 and during World War II to the 'final solution'. This book examines a central group of National Socialist perpetrators who expelled German, Austrian, and Czech Jews from their homelands and deported massive numbers of them to the ghettos, concentration camps, and killing centers of occupied Eastern Europe. Safrian reconstructs the 'careers' of Eichmann and his men in connection with the implementation of racial policies, particularly the gradual marginalization of their victims and the escalation from stigmatization, divestment, and segregation to deportation, forced labor, and, fiTrade Review'Eichmann's Men is a breakthrough in the study of Eichmann, his office, and the men who implemented anti-Jewish policy in the Third Reich - culminating in the grotesquely efficient management of genocide. It is the standard work on the subject; it deserves to become a classic.' David Cesarani, Research Professor in History, Royal Holloway, University of London'Hans Safrian provides readers with excellent insight into how Adolf Eichmann and a small group of men around him were able to coordinate and manage a major portion of the Final Solution. He demonstrates that the 'desk murderers,' rather than simply shuffling papers, played a tremendously important role in coordinating and carrying out the murder of millions of European Jews. They were creative, pro-active, energetic, and completely devoted to their work.' Deborah E. Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies, Emory University'This edition contains a detailed and thorough listing of citations, with extra commentary threading from the test to generously annotated endnotes. In addition to the copious citations, to the pleasure and convenience of researchers and those who would like to pursue the subject in further readings, Safrian provides an impressive, accessible bibliography listing both primary and secondary sources.' The Journal of Central European HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Eichmann and the development of the Vienna model; 2. An unsuccessful start: the deportations to Nisko on the River San; 3. The development and initial activities of Referat IV D 4; 4. 1941: from expulsion to mass murder; 5. 1941: controversies over the deportations to the occupied areas of the Soviet Union; 6. 1942: the establishment of the genocide program; 7. 1942: collaboration and deportations; 8. The destruction of the Jewish community of Salonika: the cooperation of the SS and Wehrmacht; 9. 1943–4: manhunts in France and Greece; 10. 1944–5: manhunts in Hungary and Slovakia; 11. The post-war era.
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Cambridge University Press U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis
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Cambridge University Press Intelligence and the War against Japan Britain America and the Politics of Secret Service
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Cambridge University Press Japan Today
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Cambridge University Press The Legacy of Nazi Occupation Patriotic Memory and National Recovery in Western Europe 19451965 8 Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare Series Number 8
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Cambridge University Press Parliament and Politics in the Age of Churchill and Attlee The Headlam Diaries 19351951 14
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Cambridge University Press Nazis and Good Neighbors
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Cambridge University Press Hitler the Allies and the Jews
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Cambridge University Press The Extermination of the European Jews 50 New Approaches to European History Series Number 50
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Cambridge University Press The Myth of the Eastern Front
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Cambridge University Press Foundational Pasts
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Cambridge University Press Jewish Forced Labor Under the Nazis
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Cambridge University Press Creating the Nazi Marketplace Commerce and Consumption in the Third Reich
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Cambridge University Press Australian Battalion Commanders in the Second World War Australian Army History Series
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Cambridge University Press The Emergence of Jewish Ghettos during the Holocaust
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Cambridge University Press Operation Barbarossa and Germanys Defeat in the East
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Cambridge University Press Nazi Policy Jewish Workers German Killers
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Cambridge University Press Nazi Policy Jewish Workers German Killers
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Cambridge University Press Hitlers Italian Allies
Book SynopsisThis book tries to understand why the Italian armed forces and Fascist regime were so remarkably ineffective at warfare. The book offers an innovative analytical cross section of the Italian war effort, from society and culture, through politics and war production, to strategy operations and tactics, and demonstrates the extent to which Italian military culture made humiliation inescapable.Trade Review"This book is important to an understanding of how and why Italy collapsed during World War II." -Washington Post"MacGregor Knox's excellent study of Italy's defeat mercilessly reveals faliure on all fronts...Knox expertly paints a depressing and,, with very few exceptions, uniform picture of faliure of the Italian army, navy, and air force." -Miliary History"[A] valuable introduction to a neglected aspect of World War II." -Booklist"...thoughtful and well researched..." -Library Journal"Cool, matter-of-fact..." -Publishers Weekly"Knox tells the story clearly and concisely and his analysis of the weaknesses of the Italian military is likely to convince anyone who has witnessed the workings of Italian society...Knox's book poses interesting questions and convincingly critiques the operations of Italy's pre-war military establishment." -International History Review"A brief but cogent examination of Italy in World War II. Knox, whose talents were recently displayed in Common Destiny, a dual history of Germany and Italy, hones in here on the Italian side, his main field of expertise...This book is important to an understanding of how and why Italy collapsed during World War II." -Washington Post Book World"A necessary addition to World War II...Excellent... leaves the reader wanting more anecdotal information and first-hand accounts from officers and enlisted men." -The Ocala Star-Banner (FL)"This concise analytical study will be of much value to readers who are interested in the military relationship between Mussolini's Italy and Hitler's Germany during the period when they were allies." -The Historian"...the survey of the Italian Armed Forces during World War II, manages to look deeply into its organizational, technological, doctrinal, and tactical shortcomings, as well as its leadership and cultural problems, while rebutting the wartime Allied propaganda. A very useful work for anyone interested in the Second World War." -NYMAS NewsletterTable of ContentsIntroduction: defeat - and humiliation; 1. Fascist Italy's last war; 2. Society, politics, regime, industry; 3. Men and machines: the Armed Forces and modern warfare; 4. Strategy; 5. Operations; 6. Tactics; Conclusion: the weight of the past.
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