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Cambridge University Press The Times and Appeasement The Journals of A L Kennedy 19321939 Camden Fifth Series Series Number 16
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Cambridge University Press The Deutsche Bank and the Nazi Economic War against the Jews The Expropriation of JewishOwned Property
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Cambridge University Press Life after Death
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Cambridge University Press Allianz and the German Insurance Business 19331945
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Cambridge University Press Life between Memory and Hope The Survivors of the Holocaust in Occupied Germany 12 Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare Series Number 12
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Cambridge University Press Buried by the Times The Holocaust and Americas Most Important Newspaper
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Cambridge University Press Indelible Shadows
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Cambridge University Press The Psychology of Good and Evil
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Cambridge University Press In the Shadow of the Rising Sun Shanghai Under Japanese Occupation Cambridge Modern China Series
Book SynopsisThis 2004 volume offers an evaluation of the strategic significance of the Shanghai economy in the Pacific War. It also draws attention to the feminisation of urban public discourse against the backdrop of intensified violence. The essays capture the last moments of European settlements in Shanghai under Japanese occupation.Trade Review"Christian Henriot and Wen-hsin Yeh ask what the war years 1937-1945 meant to the civilian population of the great metropolis. They ask how the brutality of siege and occupation changed 'civic patterns of authority and association' and how they reconfigured 'the material landscape of the city?' To the credit of editors and essayists alike, this sweeping study of Shanghai under Japanese occupation answers those questions and many others and illuminates our understanding of wartime struggle and survival in China's most modern and international city.""The clear contribution of this volume is its success in providing a more diverse perspective of the Sino-Japanese War." The Journal of Asian Studies Larry Shyu, University of New Brunswick"Generally speaking, the fourteen essays that comprise this collection probe the grey areas that characterized life in Shanghai during the occupation, and grey areas there surely were—between, for example, collaboration and resistance, or hero and traitor.... Most people inhabited the space between extremes, and it is here, in the realm of the ordinary, that these essays make their mark. Well-researched, cogently presented, and generally quite readable, they add texture and depth to our understanding of the ways by which Chinese living in their nation's most important metropolitan center dealt with the dislocations imposed by the war and occupation.... This collection is a most welcome addition to the field." - Journal of Asian HistoryTable of ContentsPreface; Introduction Christian Henriot; Part I: 1. Shanghai industries under Japanese occupation Christian Henriot; 2. Chinese capitalists in wartime Shanghai 1937–45 Parks M. Coble; 3. Marketing medicine across enemy lines Sherman Cochran; 4. Crossing enemy lines Allison Rottmann; 5. Shanghai Smuggling Frederic Wakeman; Part II: 6. The Great Way government of Shanghai Timothy Brook; 7. Resistance and cooperation Brian G. Martin; 8. From revenge to treason Alain Roux; 9. Settlers and diplomats Robert Bickers; 10. The bumpy end of the French concession and French influence in Shanghai Christine Cornet; Part III: 11. Back to business as usual Carlton Benson; 12. 'Women's Culture of Resistance' Susan Glosser; 13. Fashioning public intellectuals Nicole Huang; 14. Women and wartime Shanghai Paul G. Pickowicz; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Nazis and Good Neighbors The United States Campaign Against the Germans of Latin America in World War II
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Cambridge University Press Famine and Death in Occupied Greece 19411944 42 Cambridge Studies in Population Economy and Society in Past Time Series Number 42
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Cambridge University Press The Soviets the Munich Crisis and the Coming of World War II
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Cambridge University Press Strength through Joy
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Cambridge University Press The Myth of the Eastern Front
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Cambridge University Press A World at Total War
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Cambridge University Press Thailands Secret War OSS SOE and the Free Thai Underground During World War II Cambridge Military Histories
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Cambridge University Press Jewish Forced Labor Under the Nazis
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Cambridge University Press Hitler the Allies and the Jews
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Cambridge University Press Jews in Italy under Fascist and Nazi Rule 19221945
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Cambridge University Press The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial 19631965
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Cambridge University Press Fascisms European Empire Italian Occupation During the Second World War New Studies in European History
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Cambridge University Press Germans Jews and Antisemites Trials in Emancipation
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Cambridge University Press America and the Return of Nazi Contraband
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Cambridge University Press US Intelligence and the Nazis
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Cambridge University Press Remembering and Imagining the Holocaust The Chain of Memory Cambridge Studies in Modern Theatre
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Cambridge University Press At Home and Under Fire
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Cambridge University Press The Extermination of the European Jews
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Cambridge University Press Every Day Lasts a Year A Jewish Familys Correspondence from Poland
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Cambridge University Press Inside IG Farben
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Cambridge University Press Robbing the Jews
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Cambridge University Press The Language of Nazi Genocide Linguistic Violence and the Struggle of Germans of Jewish Ancestry
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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 The Warsaw Rising of 1944 15 Cambridge Russian Soviet and PostSoviet Studies Series Number 15
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Cambridge University Press The Battle for Wau New Guineas Frontline 19421943 Australian Army History Series
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Cambridge University Press The Atrocity of Hunger
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Cambridge University Press Marché Noir
Book SynopsisMarché Noir explains how and why black markets in France became essential to ordinary consumers and to businesses to survive scarcity and German exploitation. Drawing on archival evidence and diverse records of personal experience, Kenneth Mouré explains the black market's critical role in everyday life in Vichy France.Trade Review'With immense research and compelling prose, Mouré analyzes how people of all kinds-rich and poor, rural and urban, producers and consumers, police and the policed, from Vichy officials and Nazi occupiers to Allied liberators-navigated the challenges and opportunities of France's wartime black-market economy. A superb integration of economic, social, and cultural history.' Herrick Chapman, New York University'Moure's compelling book on the black market focuses on a critical aspect of life in France during the German Occupation. Moure's vivid account brings his deep understanding of economics and of the war to his investigation of the black market and its profound impact on politics, economics and daily life. Vichy's failure to control and enforce a system meant to ensure basic living standards all but compelled producers, distributors and consumers to turn to the black market, widening divisions in French society.' Sarah Fishman, University of Houston'Mouré weaves powerful examples from a variety of sources - from police records to diaries, economic reports, and contemporary cartoons - and successfully explains the intricacies of economic factors in lay terms. This work offers a welcome and necessary addition to recent scholarship on the 'gray zone' that characterized French collaboration with Nazi Germany. … Highly recommended.' G. P. de Syon, ChoiceTable of Contents1. The black market in wartime France; 2. L'économie de misère; 3. Curing the thermometer: price controls and the black market; 4. La terre, elle, ne ment pas: agriculture and the black market; 5. Market forces: industry and commerce; 6. Consumers in a world of scarce goods; 7. Illegality normalized; 8. Liberating markets and consumers; 9. Justice for les profiteurs de la misère publique; 10. Black markets in wartime.
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Cambridge University Press Neutrality and Collaboration in South China
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Cambridge University Press The Fascist Zenith
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Cambridge University Press Women and Yugoslav Partisans
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on one of the most remarkable phenomena of World War II: the mass participation of women, including numerous female combatants, in the communist-led Yugoslav Partisan resistance. Drawing on an array of sources, this study explores the history and postwar memory of the phenomenon.Trade Review'Meticulously researched and convincingly argued, this is a fascinating and important story long in need of serious examination - important for its contribution not only to Yugoslav and women's history but also to literature on modernization, comparative communism, and gender and war. I look forward to assigning it!' Carol Lilly, Director of International Studies Program, Eastern Europe, Russian, and Soviet History, University of Nebraska, Kearney'Batinić breaks new ground in this engaging historical analysis of gender as a critical organizing principle of the Yugoslav Partisan movement and the communist system the Partisans built. The product of extensive archival research and rich theoretical insight, this book challenges the existing historical narratives of World War II in Yugoslavia, and our understanding of the relationship between gender identity and war.' Malgorzata Fidelis, University of Illinois, Chicago'Batinić has authored a compelling book that reveals the pervasiveness of gender norms and the power of traditional culture. The success of the Partisan Army relied heavily on the incorporation of gender norms and manipulation of local traditions into its ideology to achieve the mass mobilization of the peasants. However, even in the midst of a war for survival, with institutional support for gender equality, the daily practice of gender inequality continued to occur. Batinić honors the memory and sacrifice of these brave women. Much can be learned through this study of the partizanka, from how and why she was created and empowered to how and why she was forgotten.' H-War'… the author presents refreshingly novel interpretations and fascinating transnational comparisons between partizanke and their contemporaries in Mao Zedong's Red Army, the Greek People's Liberation Army, the French Resistance, and other such organizations. On certain questions, such as Partisan sexual mores, Batinić's contribution is truly trailblazing. … Batinić's study is more than just a history of World War II resistance, and its subtitle should in fact read as 'A History of Socialist Yugoslavia' to capture the tremendous ground that this remarkable book covers.' Gregor Kranjc, The American Historical Review'[Batinić] is sympathetic to her subject matter but also dispassionate and objective; she highlights the many contradictions and ambiguities that were involved in the Partisans' revolutionary mobilization of women in a highly patriarchal society. The combination of rigorous methodology and extensive research based on archival and other primary sources, as well as an impressive mastery of the literature, comes together splendidly: this book is essential reading for anyone interested in either gender or World War II in Yugoslavia.' Marko Attila Hoare, Slavic ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. 'To the people, she was a character from folk poetry': the party's mobilizing rhetoric; 2. The 'organized women': developing the AFW; 3. The heroic and the mundane: women in the units; 4. The personal as a site of party intervention: privacy and sexuality; 5. After the war was over: legacy; Concluding remarks.
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Cambridge University Press At Home and Under Fire Air Raids And Culture In Britain From The Great War To The Blitz
Book SynopsisThis book studies British civilians' experiences of, and responses to, air raids during the First and Second World Wars. Memories of the World War I bombings shaped British response to future wars and helped redefine a gendered understanding of how civilians should respond to modern war.Trade Review'Professor Grayzel shows that in order to understand the real impact of the Blitz, it is important to go back a quarter of a century to the first aerial assault on Britain. Drawing on a vast range of sources and utilizing the theoretical sophistication of a historian at the height of her powers, At Home and Under Fire also manages to make us recognize once more the unprecedented shock of death from above and engages our sympathy with the people first caught under the bombs.' Dr Adrian Gregory, University of Oxford'Throughout the twentieth century, and into the twenty-first, civilians have been the subject of aerial bombardment as combatant nations and groups have sought to win conflicts by inflicting death and injury on those at home 'behind the lines'. In this riveting study Susan Grayzel traces the origins of this all-too-familiar form of warfare back to the early twentieth century, showing the impact of aerial warfare on the home and on those within. Exploring the responses to this new threat to personal and national security from the state, the media, and individuals, this is truly a book for our times.' Lucy Noakes, University of Brighton'At Home and Under Fire is an exhaustively researched and illuminating analysis of the impact of air warfare on Britain in the twentieth century. Grayzel thoughtfully analyzes the political and cultural responses to and consequences of the bombing in World War I, examining the policy and public debates at the time and in the war's aftermath. She clearly demonstrates how weapons from the skies used against British civilians beginning in 1914 shaped interwar debates about controlling war, protecting civilian lives, and preparing for the war to come, and how these, in turn, informed responses to the massive attacks from the air in World War II. The book significantly enriches our understanding of the nature and consequences of 'Total War'.' Sonya O. Rose, Professor Emerita, University of Michigan'Susan Grayzel now offers a wider perspective on the impact of the bombing of civilians, by explaining the ways in which everyday life was first 'militarized' by the attacks in the First World War. [She] effectively illustrates how the extension of the scale of conflict significantly affected the British people's attitude to the state, and how they subsequently became far more tolerant of its intervention in their daily lives.' Ian Cawood, The Times Literary Supplement'[Grayzel's] book is a major achievement, providing us with a complexly argued and exhaustively researched account of British responses to the threat of aerial attack, one that illuminates the vital role of gender in how war was imagined and anticipated.' Geoffrey Field, Twentieth Century British History'Because of German attacks it was Britain that first had to cope with 'total war' and this book will greatly aid our understanding of how this important development occurred.' Contemporary Review'This detailed, well-written book chronicles the cultural transformation wrought by the air raid, in reality and in the British imagination, between the early Zeppelin raids of the First World War and the end of the Blitz in the Second … This is an exemplary monograph: deeply researched, attentive to the production and reception of culture, and elegantly argued. Its main claim is convincing, and its de-emphasizing of the uniqueness of the reaction to the Blitz is important.' Journal of British StudiesTable of Contents1. Modern war and the militarization of domestic life; 2. Destroying the innocent: the arrival of the air raid, 1914–16; 3. Redefining the battlezone: responding to intensified aerial warfare, 1917–18; 4. Writing and rewriting modern warfare: memory, representation, and the legacy of the air raid in interwar Britain; 5. Inventing civil defense: imagining and planning for the war to come; 6. Trying to prevent the war to come: efforts to remove the threat of air raids; 7. Facing the future of air power: responding to interwar air raids; 8. Preparing the public for the next war: the expansion of air raid precautions; 9. Protecting the innocent: gas masks and the domestication of air raid precautions; 10. Responding to the air war's return: the militarized domestic sphere from Munich to the Blitz; 11. Representing the new air war: morale and the domestication of the air raid in wartime popular culture; 12. Conclusion: air raids and the domestication of modern war.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Villa AirBel
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Down to the Sea
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Storm of War
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Lost Peace
Book SynopsisA reinterpretation of the postwar years. It examines what drove Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, De Gaulle, and Truman, among others, the leaders of some of the most powerful and populous nations around the globe, to rely on traditional power politics in spite of the catastrophic violence they had endured.Trade Review"An excellent book." -- The New York Times Book Review "A perceptive work... Veteran historian Dallek delivers a shrewd analysis of why world leaders failed to deliver a better world." -- Publishers Weekly "Bound to provoke debate, Dallek's tome should engage the readership for world politics." -- Booklist "Robert Dallek brings to this majestic work a profound understanding of history, a deep engagement in foreign policy, and a lifetime of studying leadership. This seminal work deserves widespread attention." -- Doris Kearns Goodwin
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Lost in ShangriLa
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Devils Diary
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Rescue at Los Baños The Most Daring Prison Camp
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Riveting. ... Opens our eyes to... amazing bravery in the midst of a greater war. ... Readers [will] be both shocked by the conditions that POWs had to endure and appreciative of the bravery and ingenuity of that generation we have come to call the greatest." -- Washington Post "Bruce Henderson has told a wonderfully exciting story of one of war's greatest rescues with verve, style, and panache. I didn't even stop for coffee during my reading: it was so classically unputdownable." -- Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Men Who United the States "Rescue at Los Banos will swell your chest. Bruce Henderson's powerful account has earned a place on the top shelf of World War II nonfiction narratives." -- Mitchell Zuckoff, New York Times bestselling author of 13 Hours and Lost in Shangri-La "An epic survival story of men and women held captive in a Japanese internment camp in the Philippines until their remarkable rescue by U.S. paratroopers and Filipino guerrillas three years later. Fast-paced and compelling, Rescue at Los Banos is as gripping as any suspense novel." -- Vincent Bugliosi, author of Helter Skelter and Reclaiming History "Rescue at Los Banos hits the drop zone. Extensively researched and extremely well-written, Bruce Henderson's riveting account of the historic events of 23 February 1945 finally does justice to the greatest airborne operation in U.S. military history." -- John D. Lukacs, author of Escape from Davao "Riveting...Bruce Henderson does it again with his account of the prisoners at Los Banos. I felt their agonies, sacrifices, and exhilaration. Any reader would love this account of individuals triumphing over seemingly impossible obstacles." -- John Wukovits, author of Hell From the Heavens "The agony and anguish for the Japanese-held Los Banos internees - all civilians and including children and small babies - is almost beyond belief. The raid by U.S. paratroopers that set them free is breathtaking." -- Bill Sloan, author of Undefeated "Bruce Henderson has managed to pull one of the most daring rescue missions in military history out of obscurity and turn it into a solid book of passion and fascinating detail. He has done his readers - and military history buffs in general - a great service." -- Captain Dale Dye, USMC (Ret), author of Contra File and other Shake Davis novels and Hollywood military adviser "Riveting. ... Achieves a high standard of popular history. Rescue at Los Banos artfully blends vibrant character sketches with equally clear military fact, all rendered in vivid color." -- Kirkus Reviews "Gripping. ... A heartrending tale of... survival." -- Library Journal "Reads like an adventure thriller and sheds new light on one of the most compelling stories of World War II. ... Anyone who enjoyed Laura Hillenbrand's Unbroken or Mitchell Zuckoff's Lost in Shangri-La should check this one out." -- Military.com
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Midnight in Broad Daylight
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewDeeply reported and researched... Midnight in Broad Daylight" not only tells one family's remarkable story but also makes an important contribution to our knowledge of the Japanese-American experience in World War II, on both sides of the ocean and the hyphen. -- New York Times Book Review [S]ublime prose and prodigious research..."Midnight in Broad Daylight" is as riveting and moving a book as has ever been written about World War II, made all the more compelling by the blending of American and Japanese perspectives. -- Seattle Times "An intimately detailed look at the agony of a Japanese American family struggling to maintain American loyalty amid discrimination and war... A richly textured narrative history... A beautifully rendered work wrought with enormous care and sense of compassionate dignity." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "[O]ne of the most wrenching, inspirational-and until now unknown-true epics of World War II...luminous, magisterial...[Sakamoto] has helped shape and set the standard for a vital and necessary new genre: transpacific literature. Her readers will want more." -- Ron Powers, Pulitizer Prize winner and author of Mark Twain: A Life "Riveting in its alternating American and Japanese perspectives, and a fresh look at the dropping of the atom bomb over Hiroshima, this story is inspirational as well as educational. A great addition to World War II literature." -- Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, coauthor of Farewell to Manzanar "This deeply researched and elegantly written history is a rare human drama that spans the Japanese-American experience as few, if any, books have done... a cultural document that immerses the reader..." -- USA Today "Midnight in Broad Daylight is a deeply moving, well-written work that ranks among the better accounts of the injuries inflicted in wartime on civilian and ethnic populations. Students of war crimes and crimes against humanity are sure to notice this book." -- Herbert Bix, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
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