Second World War Books

Book SynopsisA gritty, first-person account. ... One can hear Shaw’s voice as if he were sitting beside you. —Wall Street JournalAn unforgettable soldier’s-eye view of the Pacific War’s bloodiest battle, by the first American officer ashore Okinawa. On Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945, 1.5 million men gathered aboard 1,500 Allied ships off the coast of the Japanese island of Okinawa. The men were there to launch the largest amphibious assault on the Pacific Theater. War planners expected an 80 percent casualty rate.The first American officer ashore was then-Major Art Shaw (1920-2020), a unit commander in the U.S. Army’s 361st Field Artillery Battalion of the 96th Infantry Division, nicknamed the Deadeyes. For the next three months, Shaw and his men served near the front lines of the Pacific’s costliest battle, their artillery proving decisive against a phantom enemy who had entrenched itself in the rugged, craggy island. Over eighty-two days, the Allies fought the Japanese army in a campaign that would claim more than 150,000 human lives. When the final calculations were made, the Deadeyes were estimated to have killed 37,763 of the enemy. The 361st Field Artillery Battalion had played a crucial role in the victory. The campaign would be the last major battle of World War II and a key pivot point leading to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and to the Japanese surrender in August, two months after the siege’s end. Filled with extraordinary details, Shaw’s gripping account gives lasting testimony to the courage and bravery displayed by so many on the hills of Okinawa.Trade Review"A gritty, first-person account remembered from the vantage point of 75 years later. One can hear Shaw’s voice as if he were sitting beside you reminiscing through misty eyes about the defining moments of his youth." — Wall Street Journal "82 Days on Okinawa is a personal view of war that is heartfelt and poignant. Col. Shaw’s account of the day-to-day grind brings new life to the historical record. His reflections of home and his longing to return, interspersed with the upcoming engagements, make for an impactful narrative. A fine autobiography/history book for all to enjoy.” — Portland Book Review “A comprehensive and action-packed memoir of the Battle of Okinawa…This dual perspective gives the book a wide-angled view that’s unusual in a soldier’s battle memoir…a satisfying presentation of the bloodiest battle in the Pacific Theater of WWII.” — Publishers Weekly "A vivid re-creation of a campaign so vicious that the soldiers involved rejoiced when they heard about Hiroshima." — Kirkus Reviews "World War II aficionados will love this book." — Library Journal

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Book Synopsis“A damn good read.”—Alan FurstA brilliant debut novel, at once teasing literary thriller and a darkly comic blend of history and invention, The Torqued Man is set in wartime Berlin and propelled by two very different but equally mesmerizing voices: a German spy handler and his Irish secret agent, neither of whom are quite what they seem.Berlin—September, 1945. Two manuscripts are found in rubble, each one narrating conflicting versions of the life of an Irish spy during the war. One of them is the journal of a German military intelligence officer and an anti-Nazi cowed into silence named Adrian de Groot, charting his relationship with his agent, friend, and sometimes lover, an Irishman named Frank Pike. In De Groot’s narrative, Pike is a charismatic IRA fighter sprung from prison in Spain to assist with the planned German invasion of Britain, but who never gets the chance to c

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Book SynopsisThe prizewinning historian and bestselling author of D-Day, Stalingrad, and The Battle of Arnhem reconstructs the Battle of the Bulge in this riveting new account On December 16, 1944, Hitler launched his ‘last gamble’ in the snow-covered forests and gorges of the Ardennes in Belgium, believing he could split the Allies by driving all the way to Antwerp and forcing the Canadians and the British out of the war. Although his generals were doubtful of success, younger officers and NCOs were desperate to believe that their homes and families could be saved from the vengeful Red Army approaching from the east. Many were exultant at the prospect of striking back.The allies, taken by surprise, found themselves fighting two panzer armies. Belgian civilians abandoned their homes, justifiably afraid of German revenge. Panic spread even to Paris. While some American soldiers, overwhelmed by the German onslaught, fled or surrendered, others held on heroically, creating breakwaters which slowed the German advance. The harsh winter conditions and the savagery of the battle became comparable to the Eastern Front. In fact the Ardennes became the Western Front’s counterpart to Stalingrad. There was terrible ferocity on both sides, driven by desperation and revenge, in which the normal rules of combat were breached. The Ardennes—involving more than a million men—would prove to be the battle which finally broke the back of the Wehrmacht. In this deeply researched work, with striking insights into the major players on both sides, Antony Beevor gives us the definitive account of the Ardennes offensive which was to become the greatest battle of World War II.

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Book SynopsisTense Future falls into two parts. The first develops a critical account of total war discourse and addresses the resistant potential of acts, including acts of writing, before a future that looks barred or predetermined by war. Part two shifts the focus to long interwar narratives that pit both their scale and their formal turbulence against total war''s portrait of the social totality, producing both ripostes and alternatives to that portrait in the practice of literary encyclopedism. The book''s introduction grounds both parts in the claim that industrialized warfare, particularly the aerial bombing of cities, intensifies an under-examined form of collective traumatization: a pretraumatic syndrome in which the anticipation of future-conditional violence induces psychic wounds. Situating this claim in relation to other scholarship on critical futurities, Saint-Amour discusses its ramifications for trauma studies, historical narratives generally, and the historiography of the interwarTrade ReviewBy moving our vision from earth to sky, from soldiers in the trenches to civilians under air raids, Paul Saint-Amour makes rich and surprising our understanding of the twentieth-century and its literature. Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, and we ourselves emerge in the arresting light of this first modern collective anxiety. * Elaine Scarry, author of Thermonuclear Monarchy: Choosing Between Democracy and Doom *This book is a tour de force, introducing an entirely new approach to the modernist imagination. Saint-Amour makes us hear the undertones of menace in interwar literature, thereby reconfiguring modernist fiction as meditations on disasters to come. * Jay Winter, author of Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History *Paul Saint-Amour reinterprets culture during the years between World War I and World War II as an era of anxious anticipation. Thoughtful, penetrating, and important, Tense Future expands our understanding of war's destructive power. * Mary L. Dudziak, author of War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences *Tense Future moves fluently through the cultural records of the First World War, interwar, Second World War, and Cold War. Creating a wholly new archive, Saint-Amour does nothing less than shift the tense of imaginative action in the literature of major record: from memory, which Paul Fussell established as its primary imaginative circumstance, to anticipation; from reverie to dread. Our way of reading the literature of a century of war will be changed by this comprehensive and compelling account. * Vincent Sherry, author of Modernism and the Reinvention of Decadence *Intricately crafted and thoroughly documented, Tense Future not only redefines the modern epic but also lays the groundwork for reconceptualizing the interwar period and perspectives on temporality. * W. T. Martin, CHOICE *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ; Introduction: Traumatic Earliness ; I. Bukimi ; II. The Precincts of Time ; III. Collective Psychosis ; Facing Trauma ; Critical Futurities ; Three Interwars ; Weak Modernism ; Part One ; 1. On the Partiality of Total War ; The Case of L. E. O. Charlton ; Intimations of Totality ; Interwar Air Power Theory ; Rival Preemptions of Law and War ; National Totality and Colonial Air Control ; Bombing Display I ; Bombing Display II ; 2. Perpetual Suspense: Virginia Woolf's Wartime Gothic ; Morphologies of Suspense ; Mark Time ; Mrs. Dalloway and the Gaze of Total War ; The Years: Immunities Lost and Found ; <"Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid>" ; 3. Fantasias of the Archive: Hamilton's Savage and Jenkinson's Manual ; A Promise of Terror to Come ; Savage Foreclosures ; Declining Fertility ; Jenkinson's Manual ; War Archives: Theory and Performance ; Thoughts on Archives in an Air Raid ; The Death Drive of the Archive ; Part Two ; 4. Encyclopedic Modernism ; Against Epic ; Revisiting the Encyclopedie ; The Eleventh ; Encyclopedic Narrative ; Modern Epic ; Pace Bersani ; 5. The Shield of Ulysses ; Ulysses' Encyclopedism ; Encyclopedia Prophetica ; Urban Violence and Amity Lines ; Theater of Total War ; Scattering ; 6. War Shadowing: Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End ; Uncyclopedia Britannica ; Total Worry ; Futures in Furniture ; Conclusion: Perpetual Interwar ; Appendix: Chapter Abstracts ; Bibliography ; Index

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2013 PROSE Award, U.S. History categoryIn Roosevelt''s Second Act Richard Moe has shown in superb fashion that what might seem to have been an inevitable decision of comparatively little interest was far from it.--David McCulloughOn August 31, 1939, nearing the end of his second and presumably final term in office, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was working in the Oval Office and contemplating construction of his presidential library and planning retirement. The next day German tanks had crossed the Polish border; Britain and France had declared war. Overnight the world had changed, and FDR found himself being forced to consider a dramatically different set of circumstances. In Roosevelt''s Second Act, Richard Moe focuses on a turning point in American political history: FDR''s decision to seek a third term. Often overlooked between the passage and implementation of the New Deal and the bombing of Pearl Harbor, that decision was far from inevitable. As the election loomed, he refused to comment, confiding in no one, scrambling the politics of his own party; but after the Republicans surprisingly nominated Wendell Willkie in July 1940, FDR became convinced that no other Democrat could both maintain the legitimacy of the New Deal and mobilize the nation for war. With Hitler on the verge of conquering Europe, Roosevelt, still hedging, began to maneuver his way to the center of the political stage.Moe offers a brilliant depiction of the duality that was FDR: the bold, perceptive, prescient and moral statesman who set lofty and principled goals, and the sometimes cautious, ambitious, arrogant and manipulative politician in pursuit of them. Immersive, insightful and written with an inside understanding of the presidency, this book challenges and illuminates our understanding of FDR and this pivotal moment in American history.Trade ReviewIn Roosevelt's Second Act Richard Moe has shown in superb fashion that what might seem to have been an inevitable decision of comparatively little interest was far from it. But then what could possibly be predictable or uninteresting about such a famously unfathomable protagonist? And what a cast of characters! Moe's long, personal experience in Washington politics, combined with his marked skill as an historian, make this a consistently illuminating reminder that history is above all human, and seldom more so than behind the scenes at a turning point of such importance. " * David McCullough *Richard Moe's excellent book reminds us of what great leadership looks like. His beautifully written account of FDR's run for a third term and America's decisive move toward involvement in World War II will stand as the definitive study of this landmark election and a turning point in the country's history." * Robert Dallek *Trying to understand and explain the complexities of Franklin D. Roosevelt's mind is a daunting task for any historian. Richard Moe is clearly up to the challenge in his fascinating, revelatory account of FDR's fateful decision to run for a third term in 1940, in the midst of the greatest crisis the world has ever faced. Filled with drama and excitement, Roosevelt's Second Act is particularly compelling in its depiction of how two women * Eleanor Roosevelt and Frances Perkinsrescued the president from a political fiasco that could have irrevocably altered history.Lynne Olson, author of Citizens of London and Those Angry Days *A carefully focused and researched analysis that adds considerably to the historical record. * Kirkus Reviews, starred review *Roosevelt's Second Act tells the story of a weary president's fateful decision to heed the call of duty in our nation's * and the world'smost perilous hour. Richard Moe's take on an epic tale is deftly-crafted, persuasive in analyzing people and power, and highly relevant to the struggles of our own era; a superb work of living history.Madeleine Albright *Most accounts of the Age of Franklin Delano Roosevelt halt with the erosion of the New Deal in 1938 and then lurch forward after Pearl Harbor in 1941. One moment the reader is immersed in Harry Hopkins, the next in Winston Churchill three years later. In this lively, fast-paced tale of the 1940 campaign when FDR sought to break the taboo against serving more than two terms, Richard Moe invites his readers to reflect on a seminal year when the two periods merged. That year, he shows lucidly, America crossed the divide from isolation to irrevocable international commitment, and magnified the authority of the president, then and ever more, in his new role as commander-in-chief of the most powerful empire on earth. * William E. Leuchtenburg, author of In the Shadow of FDR: From Harry Truman to Barack Obama *"[Roosevelt's Second Act] tells us as much about the American system of politics as any book I've ever read . . . [a] masterful account of why and how FDR overcame his reluctance to seek reelection. " * Huffington Post *[A] compelling read. Roosevelt's Second Act: The Election of 1940 and the Politics of War is a superbly reconstructed chronology of the 1940 campaign. * Washington Monthly *Table of ContentsNote to the Paperback Edition ; Introduction - History Repeating Itself ; Chapter 1 - Prelude to War ; Chapter 2 - Succession ; Chapter 3 - Methods Short of War ; Chapter 4 - Redefining Neutrality ; Chapter 5 - The Sphinx ; Chapter 6 - A Year of Consequence ; Chapter 7 - A Hurricane of Events ; Chapter 8 - The Republicans ; Chapter 9 - The Decision ; Chapter 10 - Preparing for the Showdown ; Chapter 11 - Chicago - Following the Script ; Chapter 12 - Chicago - Unscripted ; Chapter 13 - Drafts and Destroyers ; Chapter 14 - The Pivot ; Chapter 15 - To the Finish Line ; Epilogue - The Mandate

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Book SynopsisBased on interviews and oral histories, this collection of 89 stories is the first anthology of Hasidic stories about the Holocaust, and the first ever in which women play a large role.

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Book SynopsisNechama Tec''s incisive account of the rescue of Jews by Christians in Nazi-occupied Poland draws heavily on her own childhood experiences. Her in-depth study - the first of its kind - contrasts the attitudes and behaviour of altruistic helpers, and paid rescuers. She discovers a fascinating pattern, in which altruistic Christians applied their customary practise of helping the needy, without regard for their own safety, whereas paid rescuers acted with the motive of removing the Jews and the danger they represented to Poland. This is a deeply affecting book, which deals squarely with the ingrained anti-Semitism in Polish society, yet pays tribute to the extraordinary risks taken by Polish people on behalf of their Jewish compatriots.Trade Review`A book that is a long overdue and valuable contribution to both Holocaust history and the study of human nature.' Jewish Reporter

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Book SynopsisMillions were killed and maimed in the senseless brutality of the First World War, but once the armistice was signed the realities were cleansed of their horror by the nature of the burial and commemoration of the dead. In the interwar period, war monuments and cemeteries provided the public with places of worship and martyrs for the civic religion of nationalism. The cult of the fallen soldier blossomed in Germany and other European countries, and people seemed to build war into their lives as a necessary and glorious event - a proof of manhood and loyalty to the flag. Ultimately there was even a process of trivialization, with light comedies, war toys, and battlefield tourism becoming popular.Tracing wartime experience from the Napoleonic Wars to Vietnam, Professor Mosse''s chilling study explores why mankind has drawn the sting of death from modern war and transformed it into an acceptable, even sacred, event.Trade Review'a scholarly book. Paul Fussell, Times Literary Supplement'important and useful study.' George Clare, Jewish Chronicle'George L. Mosse ... has largely devoted his career to plumbing, with impressive learning, the cesspools of the imbecilic and the cruel in the Third Reich. It is a scholarly book.' Times Literary Supplement

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Book SynopsisDescribes how the Nazi propaganda machine produced conscripts for Hitler's army who were fully convinced of the view of "inferior peoples", and argues that these ideas, rather than the exigencies of war, motivated the atrocities of the SS during World War II.Trade Review'exciting and provocative essay ... This book is a chilling reminder of how rapidly State-led violence can degenerate into military barbarism, no less in Iraq or Kampuchea than in Hitler's war' Richard Overy, The Observer'a well-researched, gripping account of the Wehrmacht's titanic efforts to win Hitler's war despite the blunder of invading Russia' Anglo-German Review'an impressively researched and imaginatively presented contribution' George H. Stein, State University of New York, American Historical Review, October 1992`a stimulating work about the problem of military solidarity and its relation to fighting efficiency.' Sociology'A sombre account, using much first-hand evidence.' The Observera frightening analysis of the effect of continuous criminal propaganda on the rank-and-file of an army * Christopher Logue, The Guardian *

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Book SynopsisA collection of Langer's essays which represent his efforts to see the Holocaust as it really was. The essays examine the ways in which accounts of the Holocaust - in history, literature, film and theology - have extended and sometimes limited our insight into this event.Trade Review"In this thought-provoking collection of essays, and in his excellent selection of Holocaust writings and paintings, Langer resists the temptations to glorify or falsify, but presents with unflinching honesty the legacy of the Holocaust and its devastating effect on its survivors and the world, whose recourse has often been denial."--Harvard Review"Will be indispensable to everyone trying to understand the Holocaust....Langer's essays meticulously and compassionately examine ghetto chronicles, films, plays, and fiction by major writers....His voice is clear, persuasive, and compelling. He is one of the best guides into the disorienting world of writing about and remembering the Holocaust."--Detroit Free Press"Superb...Langer offers a penetrating analysis of how many Western intellectuals and writers have sought to come to terms with the Holocaust."--Library Journal"Important...bring[s] us back from the vacancy of words to the destiny of physical reality....Mr. Langer...illuminates the literature of the Holocaust--the chronicles of ghetto and camp, the fiction and poetry wrought out of the horror, the representations in film."--The New York Times Book Review

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Book Synopsis''British propoganda brought America to the brink of war, and left it to the Japanese and Hitler to finish the job.'' So concludes Nicholas Cull in this absorbing study of how the United States was transformed from isolation to belligerence in the years before the attack on Pearl Harbor. From the moment it realized that all was lost without American aid, the British Government employed a host pf persuasive tactics to draw the U. S. to its rescue. With the help of talents as varied as those of matinee idol Leslie Howard, Oxford philosopher Isaiah Berlin and society photographer Cecil Beaton, no section of America remained untouched and no method - from Secret Service intrigue to the publication of horrifying pictures of Nazi attrocities - remained untried. A fascinating story of how a foreign country promoted America''s involvement in its greatest war, Selling War will appeal to all those interested in the modern cultural and political history of Britain in the twentieth century and WorTrade ReviewCull records in fascinating detail the activities of a small group of dedicated individuals who coalesced around what became the New York-based British Information Services. * Anthony G. Pazzanita, Journal of Strategic Studies *A major study of Britain's potent efforts to get a reluctant United States to fight. * International Herald Tribune *A brilliant original study * Donald Cameron Watt, The Independent *An excellent account of the influence of British propaganda in leading America from neutrality in 1939 to intervention in World War II in 1941 ... The book is extremely well-written, and it is full of perceptive insights into the formation of the wartime Anglo-American special relationship. * American Studies in Europe *Working from an impressive array of sources including interviews and, unusually, Canadian archives, Nicholas Cull...makes a quite convincing case for strong British influence in the direction of U.S. foreign policy between 1939 and 1941...By adopting an all-encompassing and yet detailed approach to the topic, Cull has bridged a serious gap in academic knowledge. * History *exhaustively researched and well-written book ... His study leaves virtually no significant question either unraised or unanswered. A particularly enlightening and definitive work. Cull possesses exceptional talent as a historian, and he does great credit to Taylor, under whose guidance this study was originally undertaken as a Ph.D. thesis at Leeds University. * Robert Cole, Utah State University, American Historical Review, June 1996 *magnificent ... Using an impressive range of sources from both sides of the Atlantic, including interviews with many of the most prominent surviving actors involved, Cull traces the parallel development of British propaganda towards the United States ... This is populist history, a readable story elegantly written. A highly recommended book which contributes to a more rounded history of alliance relationships in World War II, and serves as a useful prelude to a consideration of Anglo-American propaganda during the Cold War. * Gary D. Rawnsley, University of Nottingham, Intelligence & National Security, Vol. 12, No. 2, April '97 *

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Book SynopsisWhen and why do groups target each other for extermination? How do seemingly normal people become participants in genocide? Why do some individuals come to the rescue of members of targeted groups, while others just passively observe their victimization? And how do perpetrators and bystanders later come to terms with the choices that they made? These questions have long vexed scholars and laypeople alike, and they have not decreased in urgency as we enter the twenty-first century. In this book--the first collection of essays representing social psychological perspectives on genocide and the Holocaust-- prominent social psychologists use the principles derived from contemporary research in their field to try to shed light on the behavior of the perpetrators of genocide. The primary focus of this volume is on the Holocaust, but the conclusions reached have relevance for attempts to understand any episode of mass killing. Among the topics covered are how crises and dificult life conditionTrade Review"The well-researched, provocative essays in this volume look at the Holocaust, and genocide in general, from the viewpoint of social psychology" --Choice "The well-researched, provocative essays in this volume look at the Holocaust, and genocide in general, from the viewpoint of social psychology" --ChoiceTable of ContentsForeword ; Part I: Becoming a Perpetrator ; 1. The Psychology of Bystanders, Perpetrators, and Heroic Helpers ; 2. What is a 'Social-Psychological' Account of Perpetrator Behaviour? The Person Versus the Situation in Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners ; 3. Authoritarianism and the Holocaust: Some Cognitive and Affective Implications ; 4. Perpetrator Behaviour as Destructive Obedience: An Evaluation of Stanley Milgram's Perspective, the Most Influential Social-Psychological Approach to the Holocaust ; Part II: Beyond the Individual: Groups and Collectives ; 5. Sacrifice Lambs Dressed in Wolves' Clothing: Envious Prejudice, Ideology, and the Scapegoating of Jews ; 6. Group Processes and the Holocaust ; 7. Examining the Implications of Cultural Frames on Social Movements and Group Action ; 8. Population and Predators: Preconditions for the Holocaust from a Control-Theoretical Perspective ; 9. The Zoomorphism of Human Collective Violence ; Part III: Dealing with Evil ; 10. The Holocaust and the Four Roots of Evil ; 11. Instigators of Genocide: Examining Hitler from a Social Psychological Perspective ; 12. Perpetrators with a Clear Conscience: Lying Self-Deception and Belief Change ; 13. Explaining the Holocaust: Does Social Psychology Exonerate the Perpetrators? ; 14. Epilogue: Social Psychologists Confront the Holocaust

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Book SynopsisRoaming the countryside in caravans, earning their living as musicians, peddlars and fortune-tellers, the Gypsies and their elusive way of life represented an affront to Nazi ideas of social order, hard work, and racial purity. They were branded as asocials, harassed, and eventually herded into concentration camps where many thousands were killed. But until now the story of their persecution has been overlooked or distorted.In The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies, Guenter Lewy draws upon thousands of documents - many never before used - from German and Austrian archives to provide the most comprehensive and accurate study available of the fate of the Gypsies under the Nazi regime. Lewy traces the escalating vilification of the Gypsies as the Nazis insigated a widespread crackdown on the work-shy and itinerants. But he shows that Nazi policy towards Gypsies was confused and changeable. At first, local officials persecuted Gypsies, and those who behaved in Gypsy-like fashion, for allegedlTrade Review"Lewy's study is an extremely important addition to the study of the persecution of the Gypsies during the Nazi period, a subject that has been little researched until now...Lewy's meticulously researched and methodically presented study is based on the study of primary documents in archives and in various governmental agencies. The book includes some photos and reproductions of documents and an extensive bibliography."--Multicultural Review "Guenter Lewy's The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies is an outstanding achievement. It will become the standard work on the subject. It documents and analyses an aspect of Nazi criminality that hasn't received sufficient attention and corrects some unfounded statements. It is a work of great compassion and exemplary scholarship."--Saul Friedlander, Department of History, Tel Aviv University and University of California, Los Angeles "Lewy's account of Nazi measures against the powerless Gypsies is unsurpassed in the English language. It tells a story in painstaking, footnoted detail that is totally bizarre. This book is a platform for much reflection."--Raul Hilber, author of The Destruction of the European Jews "In his level-headed way Guenter Lewy challenges many stereotypes about the Gypsies, exploring their culture including their 'ritual purity'. He also argues that despite all Nazi crimes against them the Third Reich's policy towards them lacked the single-mindedness of its murderous assault on the Jews. Meticulously researched, this book is innovative and courageous in its conclusions."--Klemens von Klemperer, Department of History, Smith College "A moving account of the fate of a small people caught in a maelstrom."--Kirkus "The tragic story of the Gypsies during Nazi Germany is presented in this comprehensive volume, which provides details on the fates of individuals and families...Lewy contradicts existing scholarship in showing that however much they were persecuted, there was no general program of extermination that was comparable to the 'final solution' of the Jews."--The Topeka Capital-Journal "In The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies, Lewy...draws upon thousands of documents--never before used--from German and Austrian archives to provide the most comprehensive and accurate study available of the fate of the Gypsies under the Nazi regime."--Gadfly Online "The sterling value of Mr. Lewy's book rests on his research of the available sources including 29 German and Austrian archives at federal and other levels...These...give the book the air of social history at its soberest but best"--Washington Times "Lewy has written a major work on the Nazi persecution of the Gypsies which is accessible to the general reader as well as to scholars."--The Philadelphia Inquirer "Based on solid archival sources, this should become the standard work on the subject."--Frederic Krome, Library Journal "A startling new interpretion of the Nazi policy toward the Gypsies. Lewy argues that in contrast to the Final Solution of the 'Jewish Question', the Nazis had no comparable plan to exterminate the Gypsies. And when the latter were sent to the concentration camps for extermination, it was not solely because of their biological existence, like the Jews, but because their wandering way of life challenged the social and cultural construct of the Third Reich...His theory may be controversial, but he argues his case carefully."--Publisher's Weekly "[E]specially welcome. Mr. Lewy's account id the most comprehensive treatment of the subject in English to date."--Tom Gross, Wall Street Journal "A reasoned, academic overview of the often historically neglected Nazi persecution of the gypsies. The book is very accessible to the general reader, filled with poignant details of individual and community struggles with the growing Nazi terror."--ForeWord "Our understanding about the persecution of the Gypsies by the Nazis has been fairly limited until now. To date, there has been only one work on the subject in English and it is highly inadequate. Part of the reason for this paucity of information is that there were few Gypsy intellectuals, and not one Gypsy was called to testify at any of the tribunals that followed the war. Moreover, many of the experiences in the camps...violated a number of Gypsy tabus so that the survivors were reluctant to discuss what had transpired. Outsiders who sought to penetrate this wall of silence were generally rebuffed...Drawing on documentary material from twenty-nine Austrian and German archives, the National Archives and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum...,Lewy has written a groundbreaking work. By examining the decrees promulgated in Berlin and determining how these policies were implemented at the local level, he has provided a detailed account of the persecution of the Gypsies."--Together

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Book SynopsisCrossing Hitler is a biography of the German trial lawyer Hans Litten (1903-1938), who dedicated his brief career to an uncompromising struggle against Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, and suffered accordingly in Hitler''s concentration camps. Through the prism of this one remarkable advocate, the book explores the rise of the Nazis, the vibrant criminal courts of the Weimar Republic, and the terror of Nazi rule in Germany after 1933. During the trial of four Nazi paratroopers in 1931, Litten grilled Hitler in a merciless three-hour examination, forcing Hitler into multiple contradictions and evasions and finally reducing him to helpless and humiliating rage. Two years later Hitler was in power, and Litten was sent to the concentration camps of the Third Reich, where he worked on translations of medieval German poetry and operated as a one-man university. After five years of torture and hard labor, Litten gave up hope of survival, and took his own life 1938.

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Book SynopsisIn the spring of 1945, as the German army fell in defeat and the world first learned of the unspeakable crimes of the Holocaust, few would have expected that, only half a century later, the Germans would emerge as a prosperous people at the forefront of peaceful European integration. How did the Germans manage to recover from the shattering experience of defeat in World War II and rehabilitate themselves from the shame and horror of the Holocaust? In After Hitler, Konrad H. Jarausch seeks to answer this question by analyzing how civility and civil society, destroyed by the Nazi regime, were restored during the post-war period. Unlike other intellectual inquiries into German efforts to deal with the Nazi past, After Hitler primarily focuses on the practical lessons a disoriented people drew from their past misdeeds, and their struggle to create a new society with a sincere and deep commitment to human rights. After Hitler offers a comprehensive view of the breathtaking transformation of the Germans from the defeated Nazi accomplices and Holocaust perpetrators of 1945 to the civilized, democratic people of today''s Germany.Trade ReviewAfter Hitler is a detailed and comprehensive study of foreign and domestic efforts to "recivilize" Germany following World War II. * Arthur B. Gunlicks Holocaust and Genocide Studies *...impressive book...Jarausch writes in a lively, engaging fashion, and this book will surely reach a broad audience extending well beyond academic specialists. Its clearly laid-out narrative will also be of enormous use to anyone seeking to find an organisational framework for a course on Germany since 1945. * Robert G. Moeller The English Historical Review *[an] impressive and wide-ranging [book]... allows many fresh and original insights [and] it will undoubtedly inspire new research * Frank Biess, German History *A work of seasoned learning, judicious intelligence, and wide empirical range, After Hitler tells the complex and uneven story of a ruined society's long-term moral and political reconstruction. Holding in view the attainment of a 'civilized society' as a workable ideal, Konrad Jarausch surveys Germany's divided histories between 1945 and the present to draw a careful and persuasive balance. Even in the most catastrophically damaged society, he shows us, certain basic values of democratic political culture may be painfully reclaimed. * Geoff Eley, author of A Crooked, From Cultural History to the History of Society *What an extraordinary challenge! Konrad Jarausch asks us to think of postwar German history - of West and East Germany in tandem - as a 'civilizing process,' as the lengthy and contorted effort of learning to live in empathy, where enmity had reigned supreme and a literally murderous war had destroyed the foundations of civility. Needless to say, this endeavor was not self-evident nor was it unequivocally chosen or, for that matter, plainly successful. How would you measure success in any case? Jarausch brings postwar history alive with these and similar questions. But his most important contribution is to put the question of civility and 'civil' society - of the sense and sensitivity of civilization--at the center of his inquiry into German history. * Michael Geyer, University of Chicago *As a history of the German post-war period this account will become a standard work in German schools - and one can only wish that for this book. * Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung *Jarausch's thoughtful study offers more than just a thesis-driven contemporary history that provides stimulating insights; it also presents a political and moral perspective which is impressive through its liberal cosmopolitanism. * Die Zeit *Table of ContentsPREFACE ; INTRODUCTION: RUPTURE OF CIVILIZATION ; PART I: FORCED REORIENTATION ; 1. Renouncing War ; 2. Questioning the Nation ; 3. Rejecting the Plan ; PRECONDITIONS OF FREEDOM ; PART II: CONTRADICTORY MODERNIZATION ; 4. Embracing the West ; 5. Arriving at Democracy ; 6. Protesting Authority ; PARADOXES OF MODERNITY ; PART III: CHALLENGES OF CIVIL SOCIETY ; 7. Abandoning Socialism ; 8. Searching for Normalcy ; 9. Fearing Foreignness ; IMPLICATIONS OF UPHEAVAL ; CONCLUSION: CONTOURS OF THE BERLIN REPUBLIC ; INDEX

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Book SynopsisArguing against the prevailing view that Holocaust survivors (encouraged by a new and flourishing culture of ''witnessing'') have come forward only recently to tell their stories,Writing the Holocaust examines the full history of Holocaust testimony, from the first chroniclers confined to Nazi-enforced ghettos to today''s survivors writing as part of collective memory. Zoë Waxman shows how the conditions and motivations for bearing witness changed immeasurably. She reveals the multiplicity of Holocaust experiences, the historically contingent nature of victims'' responses, and the extent to which their identities - secular or religious, male or female, East or West European - affected not only what they observed but also how they have written about their experiences. In particular, she demonstrates that what survivors remember is substantially determined by the context in which they are remembering.Trade ReviewWriting the Holocaust represents an important contribution to the field of Holocaust studies. * Andrea Reiter, Mortality *...thought-provoking and an inspiration for further work in this area in the future. * Journal of Jewish Studies *a wonderful introduction to Holocaust literature, especially early Holocaust literature; and it is an informed and intelligent discussion, for even the most advanced students of the Holocaust, of the role of literature in shaping our understanding of the Shoah, and understanding the lives and destinies of those victims who did and did not survive (survivors were also victims). * Michael Berenbaum, Journal of Genocide Research *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. Writing as Resistance? - Bearing Witness in the Warsaw Ghetto ; 2. Writing to Survive: The Testimony of the Concentration Camps ; 3. Writing to Remember: The Role of the Survivor ; 4. Writing Ignored: Reading Women's Holocaust Testimonies ; 5. Writing the Holocaust: The Representation of Testimony ; Epilogue

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Book SynopsisThe first study of the everydayness of political life under Stalin, this book examines Soviet citizenship through common practices of expressing Soviet identity in the public space. The Stalinist state understood citizenship as practice, with participation in a set of political rituals and public display of certain civic emotions serving as the marker of a person''s inclusion in the political world. The state''s relations with its citizens were structured by rituals of celebration, thanking, and hatred-rites that required both political awareness and a demonstrable emotional response. Soviet functionaries transmitted this obligation to ordinary citizens through the mechanisms of communal authority (workplace committees, volunteer agitators, and other forms of peer pressure) as much as through brutal state coercion. Yet, the population also often imbued these ceremonies-elections, state holidays, parades, mass rallies, subscriptions to state bonds-with different meanings: as a popular fTrade ReviewIn this imaginative and meticulously documented study, Serhy Yekelchyk describes the world of 'civic emotions' in postwar Kyiv, in the process opening a window onto the lived experience of ordinary citizens. Written by one of North America's premier historians of modern Ukraine and the Soviet Union, this book makes a signal contribution to the historiography on late Stalinism as well as serving as a pioneering work on Soviet citizenship and the often all-encompassing world of public space and ritual within the Soviet Union. * Lynne Viola, author of The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin's Special Settlements *Stalin's Citizens presents a fascinating analysis of the public lives of ordinary men and women under Stalin. Serhy Yekelchyk's close examination of government ceremonies and public events reveals the communal fabric of Soviet society which amalgamated the political and the personal. * Hiroaki Kuromiya, author of Voices of the Dead: Stalin's Great Terror in Ukraine *Using postwar Kyiv as his setting and privileging everyday practices of expressing Soviet identity rather than state policies, Serhy Yekelchyk makes discriminating use of the archival and published sources to detail and thereby reveal the performative essence and symbolic meaning of Stalinist citizenship. A work of profound insight and sophistication, yet accessible and always engaging, Stalin's Citizens is certain to generate spirited discussion and become required reading for anyone interested in understanding the Soviet way of life in the wake of total war. * Donald J. Raleigh, author of Soviet Baby Boomers: An Oral History of Russia's Cold War Generation *Stalin's Citizens reaffirms Serhy Yekelchyk's reputation as one of the leading specialists on Ukraine under Stalin. His study of Soviet elections, holiday celebrations, Communist Party agitators and their campaigns joins a growing literature that explores the practice of politics and citizenship in authoritarian states, and highlights the role of public participation in rituals and the articulation of 'civic emotions.' It also challenges the emerging scholarship on 'Soviet subjectivities.' Stalin's Citizens is based on extensive work in still little researched archives in Ukraine. * Mark von Hagen, Arizona State University *Both these very successful and enjoyable books deserve a wide readership among specialists in Soviet and post-1945 European history. Their fluent and accessible presentation, combined with the interesting questions they raise and the engaging material they deploy, make them very suitable too for students on higher-level courses. * Mark B. Smith, Slavonic and East European Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ; Introduction ; Chapter 1: The Civic Duty to Hate ; Chapter 2: Stalinism as Celebration ; Chapter 3: A Refresher Course in Sovietness ; Chapter 4: The Toilers' Patriotic Duty ; Chapter 5: Comrade Agitator ; Chapter 6: Election Day ; Epilogue ; Notes ; Index

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Book SynopsisArguing against the prevailing view that Holocaust survivors (encouraged by a new and flourishing culture of ''witnessing'') have come forward only recently to tell their stories,Writing the Holocaust examines the full history of Holocaust testimony, from the first chroniclers confined to Nazi-enforced ghettos to today''s survivors writing as part of collective memory. Zoë Waxman shows how the conditions and motivations for bearing witness changed immeasurably. She reveals the multiplicity of Holocaust experiences, the historically contingent nature of victims'' responses, and the extent to which their identities - secular or religious, male or female, East or West European - affected not only what they observed but also how they have written about their experiences. In particular, she demonstrates that what survivors remember is substantially determined by the context in which they are remembering.Trade ReviewWriting the Holocaust represents an important contribution to the field of Holocaust studies. * Andrea Reiter, Mortality *a wonderful introduction to Holocaust literature, especially early Holocaust literature; and it is an informed and intelligent discussion, for even the most advanced students of the Holocaust, of the role of literature in shaping our understanding of the Shoah, and understanding the lives and destinies of those victims who did and did not survive (survivors were also victims). * Michael Berenbaum, Journal of Genocide Research *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. Writing as Resistance? - Bearing Witness in the Warsaw Ghetto ; 2. Writing to Survive: The Testimony of the Concentration Camps ; 3. Writing to Remember: The Role of the Survivor ; 4. Writing Ignored: Reading Women's Holocaust Testimonies ; 5. Writing the Holocaust: The Representation of Testimony ; Epilogue

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Book SynopsisThe Holocaust is frequently depicted in isolation by its historians. Some of them believe that to place it in any kind of comparative context risks diminishing its uniqueness and even detracts from the enormity of the Nazi crime. In reality, such a restricted understanding of ''uniqueness'' has pulled the Holocaust apart from history and set up barriers to a better understanding of the racial onslaught unleashed within the Third Reich and its conquered territories.Working against the grain of much earlier writing, this innovative new history combines a detailed re-appraisal of the development of the genocide of the Jews, a full consideration of Nazi policies against other population groups, and a comparative analysis of other modern genocides. The Holocaust is portrayed as the culmination of a much wider history of European genocide and ethnic cleansing, from the late nineteenth century onwards. Ultimately, Bloxham shows that an explanation for the Holocaust rooted exclusively in NazisTrade ReviewAn ambitious book that forces a dramtic shift in our perceptions of the Holocaust...a dense, thoughtful book that challenges the reader on virtually every page. * Stephen G. Fritz, Central European History *This is a challenging book with far-reaching implications for our understanding of the Holocaust and its place in the history of the twentieth century. * Larry Eugene Jones, English Historical Review *Genuinely illuminating * Mark Mazower, Times Literary Supplement *A challenging book with far-reaching implications for our understanding of the Holocaust and its place in the history of the twentieth century. * Larry Eugene Jones, English Historical Review *...sophisticated... * David Cesarani, History Today *[A] provocative and essential study of the Nazi genocide. * Jewish Book World *Bloxham does a great job [of] relating the mass murder of people with disabilities, Soviet POWs, Roma, Polish elites, and Serbs to that of Jews... Eloquently written and well argued, The Final Solution: A Genocide offers fresh perspective on the Nazi genocide whose extreme nature had unduly stalled the historical analysis. A masterful attempt at contextualization, Bloxham's book should be on a list of required reading for any university course on genocide/mass violence. * Anton Weiss-Wendt, Golokost i Suchstnist *Table of ContentsPART I: A EUROPEAN HISTORY OF VIOLENCE ; PART II: NAZISM AND THE FINAL SOLUTION ; PART III: PERPETRATORS AND THEIR ENVIRONMENT ; PART IV: CIVILIZATION AND THE HOLOCAUST

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Book SynopsisModel Nazi tells the story of Arthur Greiser, the man who initiated the Final Solution in Nazi-occupied Poland. Between 1939 and 1945, Greiser was the territorial leader of the Warthegau, an area of western Poland annexed to Nazi Germany. In an effort to make the Warthegau ''German,'' Greiser introduced numerous cruel policies. He spearheaded an influx of hundreds of thousands of ethnic Germans. He segregated Germans from Poles, and introduced wide-ranging discriminatory measures against the Polish population. He refashioned the urban and natural landscape to make it ''German.'' And even more chillingly, the first and longest standing ghetto, the largest forced labour program, and the first mass gassings of Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe were all initiated under Greiser''s jurisdiction. Who was the man behind these dreadful policies? Catherine Epstein gives us a compelling biographical portrait of Greiser the man: his birth in the German-Polish borderlands, his rise to Nazi prominence inTrade Review[an] authoritatively sourced and minutely examined study * John P. Fox, Slavonic and East European Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. 'Child of the East': Posen Province, World War I, Danzig ; 2. 'Little Maria': Striving for Strength and Power in Danzig ; 3. 'The Nicest Time of My Life': Senate President ; 4. The 'Model Gau': The Warthegau ; 5. 'A Blonde Province': Resettlement, Deportation, Murder ; 6. 'The German is the Master': Segregation in the Warthegau ; 7. 'The Most Modern Streets': Exploiting Poles and Jews to Make the Gau German ; 8. 'Feudal Duke': Rule and Loss ; 9. 'Two Souls in My Breast': Trial and Execution ; Afterword ; Notes ; Selected Bibliography ; Index

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Book SynopsisIn the terrifying summer of 1942 in Belgium, when the Nazis began the brutal roundup of Jewish families, parents searched desperately for safe haven for their children. As Suzanne Vromen reveals in Hidden Children of the Holocaust , these children found sanctuary with other families and schools-but especially in Roman Catholic convents and orphanages.Vromen has interviewed not only those who were hidden as children, but also the Christian women who rescued them, and the nuns who gave the children shelter, all of whose voices are heard in this powerfully moving book. Indeed, here are numerous first-hand memoirs of life in a wartime convent-the secrecy, the humor, the admiration, the anger, the deprivation, the cruelty, and the kindness-all with the backdrop of the terror of the Nazi occupation. We read the stories of the women of the Resistance who risked their lives in placing Jewish children in the care of the Church, and of the Mothers Superior and nuns who sheltered these children aTrade ReviewA sober and moving addition to our knowledge. Well written... fascinating... a very detailed portrait of a unique World War II and Holocaust experience. * Jerusalem Post *[Vromen] analyses both intelligently and succinctly the whole issue of the hidden children ... Vromen succeeds in providing a synthesis of this hitherto unwritten aspect of the war, and bringing it to the attention of a wide Anglophone readership. * José Gotovitch, English Historical Review *Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; EPILOGUE; APPENDIX: NUNS HONORED AS RIGHTEOUS AMONG THE NATIONS; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX

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Book SynopsisAmong sources on the Holocaust, survivor testimonies are the least replaceable and most complex, reflecting both the personality of the narrator and the conditions and perceptions prevailing at the time of narration. Scholars, despite their aim to challenge memory and fill its gaps, often use testimonies uncritically or selectively-mining them to support generalizations. This book represents a departure, bringing Holocaust experts Atina Grossmann, Konrad Kwiet, Wendy Lower, Jürgen Matthäus, and Nechama Tec together to analyze the testimony of one Holocaust survivor. Born in Bratislava at the end of World War I, Helen Zippi Spitzer Tichauer was sent to Auschwitz in 1942. One of the few early arrivals to survive the camp and the death marches, she met her future husband in a DP camp, and they moved to New York in the 1960s. Beginning in 1946, Zippi devoted many hours to talking with a small group of scholars about her life. Her wide-ranging interviews are uniquely suited to raise questioTrade ReviewShould be read by all who produce and consume writings and arts about the Holocaust. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsForeword ; Mark Roseman ; Introduction: What Does it Mean? Holocaust Testimony and the Story of Helen "Zippi" Tichauer ; Chapter 1: Designing Survival: A Graphic Artist in Birkenau ; Konrad Kwiet ; Chapter 2: Recapturing the Past: Individuality and Cooperation in Auschwitz ; Nechama Tec ; Chapter 3: Displacing Memory: The Transformations of an Early Interview ; Jurgen Matthaus ; Chapter 4: Living On: Remembering Feldafing ; Atina Grossmann ; Chapter 5: Distant Encounter: An Auschwitz Survivor in the College Classroom ; Wendy Lower ; Conclusion: What Have We Learned? ; Appendix: English Translation of an Interview ; Conducted by David Boder with Helen Tichauer ; Notes ; Bibliography ; About the Contributors ; Index

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Book SynopsisShanghai Sanctuary assesses the plight of the European Jewish refugees who fled to Japanese-occupied China during World War II. This book is the first major study to examine the Nationalist government''s policy towards the Jewish refugee issue and the most thorough and subtle analysis of Japanese diplomacy concerning this matter. Gao demonstrates that the story of the wartime Shanghai Jews is not merely a sidebar to the history of modern China or modern Japan. She illuminates how the Jewish issue complicated the relationships among China, Japan, Germany, and the United States before and during World War II. Her groundbreaking research provides an important contribution to international history and the history of the Holocaust. Chinese Nationalist government and the Japanese occupation authorities thought very carefully about the Shanghai Jews and how they could be used to win international financial and political support in their war against one another. The Holocaust had complicated rTrade ReviewGao Bei paints a fascinatingly intricate picture of the political forces and fluxes which ultimately contributed to the arrival of these Jewish refugees in Shanghai. ... The author has a keen eye for detail and also provides the reader with an elaborate overview of various Chinese and Japanese personalities who directly and indirectly facilitated the entry of these Jewish refugees into Shanghai. * Felicia Yep, Journal of JRAS *Gao offers a valuable contribution to the field in for the first time presenting a synopsis of both the Chinese and Japanese policies towards Jewish refugees * Thoralf Klein, Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, London *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ; Introduction ; Chapter 1: Chinese and Japanese Perceptions of the Jews ; Chapter 2: The Chinese Nationalist Government and the Shanghai Jewish Refugees ; Chapter 3: Yasue Norihiro, Inuzuka Koreshige, and Japan's Policy toward the Shanghai Jewish Refugees, December 1937- December 1939 ; Chapter 4: The Tripartite Pact and Japan's Policy toward the Shanghai Jewish Refugee Issue, January 1940-August 1945 ; Epilogue: The European Jewish Refugees and Shanghai ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index

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Book SynopsisAlthough common wisdom and much scholarship assume that big government gained its foothold in the United States under the auspices of the New Deal during the Great Depression, in fact it was the Second World War that accomplished this feat. Indeed, as the federal government mobilized for war it grew tenfold, quickly dwarfing the New Deal''s welfare programs.Warfare State shows how the federal government vastly expanded its influence over American society during World War II. Equally important, it looks at how and why Americans adapted to this expansion of authority. Through mass participation in military service, war work, rationing, price control, income taxation, and the war bond program, ordinary Americans learned to live with the warfare state. They accepted these new obligations because the government encouraged all citizens to think of themselves as personally connected to the battle front, linking their every action to the fate of the combat soldier. As they worked for the American Soldier, Americans habituated themselves to the authority of the government. Citizens made their own counter-claims on the state-particularly in the case of industrial workers, women, African Americans, and most of all, the soldiers. Their demands for fuller citizenship offer important insights into the relationship between citizen morale, the uses of patriotism, and the legitimacy of the state in wartime.World War II forged a new bond between citizens, nation, and government. Warfare State tells the story of this dramatic transformation in American life.Trade ReviewBut what he [Professor Sparrow] has accomplished, and it is no small thing, is to show how the Roosevelt administration induced people to buy bonds, pay extremely high taxes, and otherwise support the war effort with a minimum of coercion and a maximum of coaxing. This is an interesting and important story and one that he tells well * William I. O'Neill, War in History *Table of ContentsIntroduction: War and the Popular Foundations of the State ; Part I. Ideology, Political Culture, and State Formation ; Chapter 1. War Displaces Its Analog ; Chapter 2. Morale and the National Moment ; Chapter 3. Scapegoating the State ; Part II. Encountering the State in Everyday Life ; Chapter 4. Buying Our Boys Back ; Chapter 5. Work or Fight ; Chapter 6. Citizen-Soldiers ; Conclusion: The Paradox of Rights in the Warfare State ; Appendix ; Notes ; Index

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Book SynopsisOver the last several decades, video testimony with aging Holocaust survivors has brought these witnesses into the limelight. Yet the success of these projects has made it seem that little survivor testimony took place in earlier years. In truth, thousands of survivors began to recount their experience at the earliest opportunity. This book provides the first full-length case study of early postwar Holocaust testimony, focusing on David Boder''s 1946 displaced persons interview project. In July 1946, Boder, a psychologist, traveled to Europe to interview victims of the Holocaust who were in the Displaced Persons (DP) camps and what he called shelter houses. During his nine weeks in Europe, Boder carried out approximately 130 interviews in nine languages and recorded them on a wire recorder. Likely the earliest audio recorded testimony of Holocaust survivors, the interviews are valuable today for the spoken word (that of the DP narrators and of Boder himself) and also for the song sessiTrade ReviewIn its close examination of Boders unique project, Rosens book becomes the first full-length case study of early Holocaust testimony, and firmly calls into question long-held characterizations of Holocaust testimony as belated rather than immediate. * Holli Levitsky, Holocaust and Genocide Studies *a beautifully written, thought-provoking account of the interview project. * Nicholas Chare, Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Boder's Happy Idea ; Chapter 1: I Could Not Help But Wonder: On Boder's Biography and the Idea of Testimony ; Chapter 2: Summer, 1946, Part I: The European Expedition and the Ethnography of Testimony ; Chapter 3: Summer, 1946 Part II: The Expansion of Testimony ; Chapter 4: From Listening to Reading: Publishing the Interviews ; Chapter 5: The Wonder of Their Voices: Testimony, Technology and Wire Recorded Narratives ; Chapter 6: Making a Study of These Things: Boder's Interviews in the Context of Psychology ; Chapter 7: In Divergent Tongues and Dialects: Multilingual Interviews and Literary Experiments ; Epilogue: Rewriting the History of Holocaust Testimony ; Appendix I: Chronology of Interviews: July 29-October 4, 1946 ; Appendix II: The Disputed Number of Boder Interviews ; Appendix III: Topical Autobiographies of Displaced People: Volumes I through XVI ; Notes ; Bibliographic Note ; Index

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Book SynopsisSixty years after the end of World War II, members of the Nazi party and their collaborators are still alive - and are increasingly difficult track down. 'Operation Last Chance' is the gripping personal story of one man's vast campaign to find the biggest Nazi criminals and bring them to justice, before it's too late.Trade Review'A grim tale of one man's dedication to a legal and moral cause and a shocking expos of the widespread indifference and even antagonism that he has encountered...A sobering, valuable resource for future historians.' - Kirkus 'It is never too late to bring those responsible for the horrors of the Holocaust to justice. Operation Last Chance: One Man's Quest to Bring Nazi Criminals to Justice recounts how, with tireless energy, dedication and passion Efraim Zuroff did just that. His is an essential story that demonstrates the good an individual can achieve when committed to justice and the truth.'- Abe Foxman, National Director of the Anti-Defamation League and author of Never Again? The Threat of the New Anti-Semitism 'Written like a detective story, Operation Last Chance deals with fundamental issues of human justice under the German occupation, describing the author's efforts to uncover hidden wartime criminals. Zuroff shares his successes and failures in tracking down Nazi murderers. As readers, we become involved in his relentless pursuits. This book should attract the interest of wide and varied audiences.' - Nechama Tec, Holocaust Scholar & Author of Defiance: The Bielski Partisans 'Efraim Zuroff is the spiritual heir to Simon Wiesenthal. Courageous and careful, he has pursued Nazi war criminals to the end of the earth, to their dying day - always for the sake of justice, always in the name of memory. A historian, Zuroff writes like a novelist, but with a fidelity to truth that makes for brisk and compelling reading. He writes with humility and gratitude but also with admirable moral toughness - Zuroff's assessment is unfailingly insightful and often haunting.' - Michael Berenbaum, Director, Sigi Ziering Institute and Professor of Jewish Studies, American Jewish University 'Zuroff gives us an understated yet gripping narrative of a life dedicated to justice - that the perpetrators and collaborators of the most total crime in human history not live on comfortably and free...An unbelievable book and a must-read.' - Rabbi Irving Greenberg, Founding President, National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership and Jewish Life Network, Chairman Emeritus, United States Holocaust Memorial Council 'A fascinating book written from the heart. Zuroff knows what he is writing about. He has researched his topic very carefully, and is courageous in fighting old murderers. Whether these people get prison sentences or not, does not matter. Zuroff is doing his best, and the work he does will leave a permanent mark.' - Yehuda Bauer, academic head of the International Task Force on Holocaust Education 'At a time when memory is being increasingly twisted and challenged, Zuroff has written a book about modern history's greatest crime and how its lessons will influence the world's behavior.'- Barry Rubin, Director of the Global Research in International Affairs Center of the Interdisciplinary Center on Herzliya, Israel, and author of The Truth About Syria 'Zuroff's log is an important record of free Nazis, and their atrocious crimes, which may yet spur their neighbors to action.' - Publishers Weekly 'Zuroff's accessible book is an extraordinary read, providing a wealth of information about the role of collaborationist regimes in helping the Nazis and the degree to which most of the leaders of those units tasked with mass-murder went free in the West. Zuroff also shows how some of these men have even remained heroes in their home countries because they are perceived as having fought communism, rather than having been vicious Nazis.' - Seth Frantzman, The Jerusalem Post '..worth reading.' -The European LegacyTable of ContentsMilivoj Asner, A Nazi at Euro 2008 The Arrest of Eichmann I Did Not Forget You The Office of Special Investigations The Search for Dr. Mengele and its Unexpected Bonus Nazis Down Under Nazis in Great Britain Nazis Under the Maple Leaf A New Office and the Fall of Communism Lithuania:The Struggle for Justice and Truth in the Land of My Forefathers Latvia: A Mass Murderer as a Contemporary Hero Estonia:The Best Justice Money Can Buy Croatia's Past and the Search for Dinko Sakic A Historic Trial in the Land of the Ustasha * Chapter 15- A Difficult Beginning The She-Devil of Majdanek The Zentai Case: Children Defending A Parent Dr. Heim, The Most Wanted Nazi in the World Kepiro: The Nazi Who Lives Opposite A Synagogue Conclusion

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Book SynopsisFRANK MCDONOUGH is Reader in History at Liverpool John Moores University. He has written a number of successful book including The Origins of the First and Second World Wars (CUP, 1997), Neville Chamberlain, Appeasement and the British Road to War (MUP, 1998), Hitler and Nazi Germany (CUP, 1999), Conflict, Communism and Fascism: Europe, 1890-1945, (CUP, 2000), Opposition and Resistance in Nazi Germany, (CUP, 2001), Hitler, Chamberlain and Appeasement, (CUP, 2002) and Hitler and the Rise of the Nazi Party, (Longman, 2004. He has also appeared as an expert on BBC TV, ITV, CHANNEL 4, CHANNEL 5, and BBC RADIO 4, ABC TV (USA) AND DSF (Germany) and has written over 20 scholarly articles and numerous articles on Nazi Germany in history magazines.

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Book SynopsisThe two concepts at the centre of this book: Europe, and the Second World War, are constantly changing in public perception. Now that 'Europe' is an even more contested idea than ever, this volume informs the current discourse on European identity by analysing Europe's reaction to the tragedy, heroism and disgrace of the Second World War.Trade Review“This book presents several answers to the question why the project of European integration was initiated and took off after the Second World War. It is a most valuable publication for all who are interested in European identity, both its prerequisites and possibilities. It is invaluable for any serious consideration of the context and beginning of the European integration project in the 1950s.” (Mats Andrén, The European Legacy, Vol. 21 (5-6), April, 2016)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction Ideals, Identity and War: the Idea of Europe, 1939-70; M.Wintle PART I: WORLD WAR II, EUROPE AND HUMAN RIGHTS Human Rights and European Identity since World War II: Vergangenheitsbewältigung through Law; H.Porsdam Before Integration: Human Rights and Post-war Europe; H.Schulz-Forberg From War Talk to Rights Talk: Exile Politics, Human Rights, and the Two World Wars ; J.Winter PART II: REFLECTIONS: NARRATIVES OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION AND WORLD WAR II Myth and History in European Post-War History Writing; J.Ifversen From Nazi Legacy to Cold War: British Perceptions of European Identity, 1945-5; W.Webster The Nordic Way Out: Europe in Danish Literature after the Second World War ; H.van der Liet 'Europe is the Country of the Spirit': Albert Camus and Europeanism in France, 1944-47; M.van Montfrans PART III: VISIONS: PLANS FOR A NEW EUROPE AFTER WORLD WAR II The Ventotene Manifesto: the Crisis of the Nation State and the Political Identity of Europe; M.D'Auria Max Kohnstamm's New Europe; A.van Heerikhuizen Atoms for Europe; M.Spiering Before Self-Reflexivity: Imperialism and Colonialism in the Early Discourses of European Integration; W.Schmale PART IV: SHOAH, WAR AND EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION Holocaust Literature and the Shaping of European Identity after the Second World War: the Case of Jorge Semprún; K-M.Simonsen Goodbye to All That? Jewish Views of Europe after 1945; I.Zwiep Language out of Darkness: George Steiner Speaking the Unspeakable; R.G.Soeiro Index

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Book SynopsisPropaganda during theBattle of Britaincontributed to high national morale and optimism, with 'The 'Few's' prowess and valour projected through Air Ministry communiqués and daily claims 'scores'. The media was a willing partner in portraying their heroism, also later consolidated in wartime publications, films and historiography.Trade Review'An immense, highly detailed, and careful work of scholarship full of subtle nuance and considered judgment as well as informative fact. For anyone seriously interested in the nature and content of the propaganda surrounding the Battle of Britain, The Good Fight will prove indispensable reading. - S.P. MacKenzie, British Scholar 'This is a deep, analytical examination of morale maintenance in a beleaguered island.' - Flypast 'This is the most authoritative account of the Battle of Britain that I have ever encountered. It covers the events of the Battle itself and its importance to the course of Word War II, but it also exhaustively analyses the contemporary reaction to the Battle in official and unofficial propaganda, in newspapers, films, radio, painting and literature, and the process of mythification which the Battle underwent. Written in a thoroughly accessible style, the book is a remarkable achievement in its breadth, its depth and its mastery of the large array of disparate sources.' - Jeffrey Richards, Lancaster University, UK 'In the seventy years since it was fought scores of books have been written about the Battle of Britain. It might have seemed impossible to produce, at this late stage, a thoroughly original contribution to the literature, but this is exactly what Garry Campion has achieved...Campion's rigorous and scholarly analysis takes us as close to the truth as we are ever likely to get.' - Paul Addison, Cerecles 'Garry Campion has undoubtedly made a significant and lasting contribution to Battle of Britain historiography. Although the extent to which Britain actually faced invasion during the summer of 1940 is now debated by historians, the fact remains that it was a significant event - one which continues to arouse great interest amongst enthusiasts and academics alike. That being so, this new and comprehensive study of how the conflict, and the RAF aircrew who fought it, was presented in British wartime propaganda is crucial to our wider understanding of the dramatic events concerned. As scholars seek to further contextualise the Battle of Britain, Garry Campion's "The Good Fight" will become a benchmark in historiography - and an essential point of reference to any student of summer 1940'. - Dilip Sarkar MBE FRHistS BA(Hons), leading authority on the Battle of BritainTable of ContentsList of Figures Chronology Introduction 'A Tangle of Vapour Trails' – British Propaganda and Propagandists 'Squadrons Up' – The Battle of Britain 'Arise To Conquer' – RAF Morale and Tributes to the Few 'Winged Words' – The Aircraft Claims Propaganda War 'Mastery of the Air' – BBC Home Front Propaganda 'Finest Hour' – Newspaper and Magazine Propaganda 'Men Like These' – The Few in Newsreels and MOI 'Shorts' 'The Sky's the Limit' – The Few and Iconographic Propaganda 'Combat Report' – Reaching Britain, America, the Axis and the World 'The R.A.F. in Action' – The Few on Film 'To So Few' – Wartime Literature and the Few Conclusion Bibliography Appendix

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Book SynopsisChristoph Laucht offers the first investigation into the roles played by two German-born emigre atomic scientists, Klaus Fuchs and Rudolf Peierls, in the development of British nuclear culture, especially the practice of nuclear science and the political implications of the atomic scientists' work, from the start of the Second World War until 1959.Trade Review'...this book is a valuable addition to the field of physics history and should interest British Cold War and science historians alike, particularly those investigating the history of nuclear weapons or the development of European scientific cooperation in the post-war period.' - Martin Theaker, University of CambridgeTable of ContentsContents List of Figures Preface List of Abbreviations Introduction Difficult Beginnings: Social Integration between Survival and Internment Almost Accidental Beginnings: Professional Integration between Marginalization and British-American Nuclear Co-operation American Interlude: The Manhattan Project, the Atom Bomb and the Emergence of a New Approach to Nuclear Research A Nation Betrayed? The Klaus Fuchs Atomic Espionage Case Reconsidered Subject to Suspicion: Rudolf Peierls and the Klaus Fuchs Espionage Case The Responsible Scientist: Rudolf Peierls and the Formation of the Atomic Scientists' Association The 'Unpolitical' Scientist: Rudolf Peierls, the Concept of 'Objective' Science and the End of the Atomic Scientists' Association Conclusions and Afterthoughts Notes and References Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIntroduction Propaganda, 'Co-ordination' and 'Centralisation': The Goebbels Network in Search of a Total Empire 'Polyocracy' versus 'Centralisation': The Multiple 'Networks' of NS Propaganda The Discourses of NS Propaganda: Long-term Employment and Short-term Justification From 'Short Campaign' to 'Gigantic Confrontation': NS Propaganda and the Justification of War, 1939-1941 From Triumph to Disaster: NS Propaganda from the Launch of 'Barbarossa' until Stalingrad National Socialist Propaganda and the Loss of the Monopoly of Truth (1943-44) The Winding Road To Defeat: The Propaganda Of Diversion And Negative Integration Cinema and Totalitarian Propaganda: 'Information' and 'Leisure' in National Socialist Germany, 1939-45 Conclusions: Legitimising the Impossible? BibliographyTrade Review'A refreshing reading and a solid appraisal of the omnipresent manipulation of information and disinformation during the Second World War in Germany. The quality of interpretation, the attention to detail, and reader-friendly narrative must be mentioned here. All these add substantial value to Kallis's depiction of Nazi wartime propaganda. Kallis has placed the subject of Nazi propaganda in its broader context and has addressed important questions regarding political religions, totalitarianism and fascism. Amongst the new generation of scholars forming in the footsteps of those who, like Roger Griffin, Michael Burleigh, Emilio Gentile, and Walter Adamson, revised the discipline in the 1990s, Kallis is arguably the most prominent. This book certainly substantiates this claim.' - Marius Turda, Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions 'This book presents a thoroughly researched summary of current debates about Nazi propaganda with a main focus on the war years...[Kallis] provides the English-speaking reader with a brief survey that covers all relevant aspects of Nazi war propaganda and challenges the assumption that Germans followed Goebbels' perfectly-orchestrated propaganda'. - Historical Journal of Film, Radio and TelevisionTable of ContentsIntroduction Propaganda, 'Co-ordination' and 'Centralisation': The Goebbels Network in Search of a Total Empire 'Polyocracy' versus 'Centralisation': The Multiple 'Networks' of NS Propaganda The Discourses of NS Propaganda: Long-term Employment and Short-term Justification From 'Short Campaign' to 'Gigantic Confrontation': NS Propaganda and the Justification of War, 1939-1941 From Triumph to Disaster: NS Propaganda from the Launch of 'Barbarossa' until Stalingrad National Socialist Propaganda and the Loss of the Monopoly of Truth (1943-44) The Winding Road To Defeat: The Propaganda Of Diversion And Negative Integration Cinema and Totalitarian Propaganda: 'Information' and 'Leisure' in National Socialist Germany, 1939-45 Conclusions: Legitimising the Impossible? Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis text offers a full-scale account of the strategic air offensive against Germany from 1940 to 1945, treating the British and the Americans with parity. Levine stresses the impact of bombing on the war, and generally endorses the strategic air campaign as worthwhile and effective.Table of ContentsOrigins, Prelude, Doctrine The Failure of Bomber Command, 1939-1941 The Reform of Bomber Command, 1942 The Climax of Area Bombing and the Defeat of Bomber Command, January 1943 to March 1944 The Americans Join In, 1939-1942: The Emergence of the Eighth Air Force The Abortive Offensive, June-October 1943 The Struggle for Air Superiority, November 1943-April 1944 The Strategic Air Offensive and the Normandy Invasion, February-June 1944 The Decisive Offensives (I) Oil, May 1944 to September 1944 The Decisive Offensives (II) Transportation, September 1944--V-E Day Conclusions Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisLocated about fifty miles north of Berlin, Ravensbruck was the only major Nazi concentration camp for women. Reclaiming the lost voices of the victims and the personal accounts of the survivors, this is a story of daily camp life with the women's thoughts about food, friendships, fear of sexual abuse, hygiene issues, resistance, and staying alive.Trade ReviewSaidel's goal is to make visible a previously ignored aspect of women's Holocaust history.... In bringing to light the experiences of the women of Ravensbruck concentration camp, Saidel adds to our knowledge of Jewish survival in the genocidal conditions created by the Nazis. - Rochelle G. Ruthchild, Women's Review of Books ""Thanks to Rochelle Saidel's sensitive interviews and meticulous research, together with the many previously unpublished photographs and haunting drawings by the inmates, this book will increase public recognition of Ravensbruck's victims and survivors. With this, The Jewish Women of Ravensbruck Concentration Camp takes its honorable place in the growing genre of gender study of the Holocaust."" - Eetta Prince-Gibson, Jerusalem Post ""Brings to light for the first time the stories of the Jewish women who were imprisoned in Ravensbruck."" - Ruth Almog, Haaretz

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