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Monsoon Books Sayonara Singapura
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£8.54
Bloomsbury Academic G.I. Jive
Book SynopsisPaul Dickson is the author of more than 60 nonfiction books. His previous works of discursive lexicography include The Dickson Baseball Dictionary, which the Wall Street Journal termed one of the top five top baseball books of all time, A Dictionary of the Space Age, which was written under a grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Authorisms, words coined by writers; Words from the White House, and Family Words. The inspiration for G.I. Jive came from his recent World War II narrative The Rise of the G.I. Army 19401941, which the New York Times called A profoundly heartening experience. Dickson's writing has concentrated on 20th-century American history, baseball, biography, and popular culture. He lives in Kensington, Maryland.
£68.72
Large Print Press The Girl from Guernica
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£999.99
Oxford University Press Total War
Book SynopsisThis book explores emotional responses to total war with a focus on the modern European experience. Examining particular wartime locations, and mapping national and transnational emotional cultures, the book suggests new ways of deploying emotion historically as an analytical device.Trade ReviewWith its academic rigour and theoretical thoroughness, the book will certainly help scholars delve deeper into this important topic. * Birgit Schneider, War in History Book Reviews *Table of ContentsForeword List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements 1: CLAIRE LANGHAMER, LUCY NOAKES AND CLAUDIA SIEBRECHT: Introduction 2: UTE FREVERT: Emotions in Times of War: Private and Public, Individual and Collective 3: SUSAN R. GRAYZEL: 'Macabre and Hilarious': The Emotional Life of the Civilian Gas Mask in France during and after the First World War 4: MICHAEL ROPER: Little Ruby's Hand: Young Women and the Emotional Experience of Caregiving in Britain after the First World War 5: CLAUDIA SIEBRECHT: The Tears of 1939: German Women and the Emotional Archive of the First World War 6: MARTIN FRANCIS: Wounded Pride and Petty Jealousies: Private Lives and Public Diplomacy in Second World War Cairo 7: LUCY NOAKES: Communities of Feeling: Fear, Death and Grief in the Writing of British Servicemen in the Second World War 8: CLAIRE LANGHAMER: 'Astray in a dark forest'? The Emotional Politics of Reconstruction Britain 9: JOY DAMOUSI: In Search of Victor: Transnationalism, Emotion and War Index
£44.00
The University of Chicago Press When God Looked the Other Way An Odyssey of War
Book SynopsisIn the shadow of the Holocaust, the Soviet Union's quiet yet brutal campaign against Polish citizens is often overlooked. This book gives voice to the hundreds of thousands of victims of Soviet barbarism. It presents one of the darkest periods of European history and stands as an intimate chronicle of an atrocity yet to receive its historical due.Trade Review"Mr. Adamczyk writes heartfelt, straightforward prose.... This book sheds light on more than one forgotten episode of history." - Gordon Haber, New York Sun "One of the most remarkable World War II sagas I have ever read. It is history with a human face." - Andrew Beichman, Washington Times "Adamczyk recounts the story of his own wartime childhood with exemplary precision and immense emotional sensitivity, presenting the ordeal of one family with the clarity and insight of a skilled novelist.... I have read many descriptions of the Siberian odyssey and of other forgotten wartime episodes. But none of them is more informative, more moving, or more beautifully written than When God Looked the Other Way." - From the Foreword by Norman Davies, author of Europe: A History and Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw "A finely wrought memoir of loss and survival." - Publishers Weekly"
£17.00
The University of Chicago Press In Time of War
Book SynopsisFrom World War II to the war in Iraq, periods of international conflict seem like unique moments in US political history - but when it comes to public opinion, they are not. This title explores conventional wisdom about American reactions to World War II, as well as conflicts in Korea, Vietnam, the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, and Iraq.Trade Review"With this important and intellectually stimulating book, Adam Berinsky becomes one of the pioneers in bridging the gap between the study of international relations and the study of domestic politics. In Time of War boldly revises our understanding of public opinion on World War II and the Iraq war, as well as broader issues such as attitudes toward war, foreign affairs, and public policy in general." - Jeffrey Cohen, Fordham University"
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press In Time of War
Book SynopsisFrom World War II to the war in Iraq, periods of international conflict seem like unique moments in US political history - but when it comes to public opinion, they are not. This work explodes conventional wisdom about American reactions to World War II, as well as the more recent conflicts in Korea, Vietnam, Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, and Iraq.Trade Review"With this important and intellectually stimulating book, Adam Berinsky becomes one of the pioneers in bridging the gap between the study of international relations and the study of domestic politics. In Time of War boldly revises our understanding of public opinion on World War II and the Iraq war, as well as broader issues such as attitudes toward war, foreign affairs, and public policy in general." - Jeffrey Cohen, Fordham University"
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press In the House of the Hangman The Agonies of
Book SynopsisThe central question for both the victors and the vanquished of World War II was just how widely the stain of guilt would spread over Germany. This title chronicles explores the processes of accommodation and rejection that Allied plans for a new German state inspired among the German intelligentsia.Trade Review"A highly effective, syncretic account of the engagement with Nazism and its legacy in the early postwar period." (German Quarterly)"
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press DDay Through French Eyes
Book SynopsisThough they yearned for liberation, the French in Normandy nonetheless had to steel themselves for war, knowing that their homes and land and fellow citizens would have to bear the brunt of the attack. In this book, the author turns the usual stories of D-Day around, taking readers across the Channel to view the invasion anew.Trade Review"This clear-eyed examination of what randy American soldiers got up to in France from D-Day through 1946 strips away the sentimentality from the overworked, cliched portrayal of the Greatest Generation." (Publishers Weekly) "Roberts has amassed an enormous amount of detailed information and her... book provides a refreshing view of the price of liberation." (Literary Review)"
£22.00
The University of Chicago Press The War in American Culture Society and
Book SynopsisExploring the role of World War II in the transformation of American social, cultural and political life, this book includes essays covering topics as varied as government censorship, Hollywood movie-making, swing music, family life, sexuality, cultural images and working-class life.
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Art Culture and Media Under the Third Reich
Book SynopsisThis work explores the ways in which Nazi Germany used art and media to portray their country as a champion of Kultur and civilisation. Revealing how multiple domains of cultural activity served to conceptually de-humanize Jews, this work shows how the seeds of the Holocaust were sown
£34.20
The University of Chicago Press By Words Alone The Holocaust in Literature
Book SynopsisThe creative literature that evolved from the Holocaust constitutes an unprecedented encounter between art and life. Those who wrote about the Holocaust were forced to extend the limits of their imaginations to encompass unspeakably violent extremes of human behavior. The result, as Ezrahi shows in By Words Alone, is a body of literature that transcends national and cultural boundaries and shares a spectrum of attitudes toward the concentration camps and the world beyond, toward the past and the future.
£27.00
The University of Chicago Press Making Jet Engines in World War II
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£37.05
The University of Chicago Press The Interpreter
Book SynopsisThe US Army executed seventy of its own soldiers between 1943 and 1946 - almost all of them black. This work narrates two different trials: one of a white officer, one of a black soldier, both accused of murder. Both they were court-martialed in the same room, yet the outcomes could not have been more different.Trade Review"A nuanced historical account that resonates with today's controversies over race and capital punishment." - Publishers Weekly "American racism could become deadly for black soldiers on the front. The Interpreter reminds us of this sad component of a heroic chapter in American military history." - Los Angeles Times "Impressive.... The very precision and extent of her research suggest an author whose dedication to her theme amounts to much more than an intent to document her acquaintance and proper use of archival sources. This is an extraordinary book." - John Lukacs, Boston Globe "With elegance and lucidity, Kaplan revisits these two trials and reveals an appallingly separate and unequal wartime U.S. military justice system." - Minneapolis Star Tribune "Kaplan has produced a compelling look at the racial disparities as they were played out.... She explores both cases in considerable and vivid detail." - Sacramento Bee"
£17.66
The University of Chicago Press Suffering Made Real
Book SynopsisThe Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (ABCC) was formed in 1946 in Japan in order to monitor the medical effects of radiation on the survivors of the two atomic bombs. This analysis of the ABCC's research argues that Cold War politics and cultural values fundamentally shaped the work of the ABCC.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1: How the ABCC Began 1: The Most Important People Living 2: Colonial Science 3: Into the Field 4: The Genetics Study 2: Managing the ABCC 5: Midwives and Mothers 6: Political Survival in Washington 7: The No-Treatment Policy 8: The Public Meaning of the ABCC 3: Science and Context 9: What is a Mutation? 10: Draft Analysis, 1952-1953 11: Publication Strategies 12: The ABCC and the RERF 13: Conclusions Bibliography Index
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press The Terezín Album of Mariánka Zadikow
Book SynopsisPresents a document from the last months of the Holocaust. This book tells the story of the Terezin camp and how the author and her family fared while imprisoned there.Trade Review"With simple means, without any 'title,' this book should in distant times always be in your memory."
£31.00
The University of Chicago Press Revolution and Genocide On the Origins of the
Book SynopsisIn this study that compares the major attempts at genocide in world history, the author creates a framework that links genocide to revolution and war. It focuses on the plights of Jews after the fall of Imperial Germany, as well as attempted genocides in the Soviet Union and Cambodia.
£31.35
The University of Chicago Press Free to Die for Their Country The Story of the
Book SynopsisBased on years of research and personal interviews, Eric L. Muller recreates the emotions and events that followed the punishment imposed on the young men who refused to follow draft orders in World War II.
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Kamikaze Diaries Reflections of Japanese Student
Book SynopsisPresents diaries and correspondence left by members of the tokkotai and other Japanese student soldiers who perished during the World War II. Outside of Japan, these kamikaze pilots were considered unbridled fanatics who willingly sacrificed their lives for the emperor. This book explores writings, which speak otherwise.Trade Review"Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney's book is designed to challenge Western perceptions of the kamikaze generation. By assembling brief biographies of some of the young Japanese who perished on suicide missions, and by quoting extensively from their wartime diaries and poetry, she portrays a group of literate, thoughtful people, most of whom hated the war and were reluctant to die." - Sunday Telegraph (UK) "If we wish to understand the phenomenon of terrorism in the modern world... the first and most necessary step is to understand our enemies. We must give respect to our enemies as courageous and capable soldiers enlisted in an evil cause, before we can understand them. Kamikaze Diaries gives us a basis on which to build both respect and understanding." - Freeman J. Dyson, New York Review of Books "The poems, letters, and diaries featured in this book give the lie to the notion that Japan was unified behind the war.... Kamikaze Diaries is a timely and necessary correction of a popular myth, and an important contribution to the understanding of Japan at war." - Economist"
£41.80
The University of Chicago Press Kamikaze Diaries
Book SynopsisPresents diaries and correspondence left by kamikaze pilots and other Japanese student soldiers who perished during the war. These kamikaze pilots were considered unbridled fanatics who willingly sacrificed their lives for the emperor. This work is useful for those interested in the history of Japan and World War II.Trade Review"Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney's book is designed to challenge Western perceptions of the kamikaze generation. By assembling brief biographies of some of the young Japanese who perished on suicide missions, and by quoting extensively from their wartime diaries and poetry, she portrays a group of literate, thoughtful people, most of whom hated the war and were reluctant to die." - Sunday Telegraph (UK) "If we wish to understand the phenomenon of terrorism in the modern world... the first and most necessary step is to understand our enemies. We must give respect to our enemies as courageous and capable soldiers enlisted in an evil cause, before we can understand them. Kamikaze Diaries gives us a basis on which to build both respect and understanding." - Freeman J. Dyson, New York Review of Books "The poems, letters, and diaries featured in this book give the lie to the notion that Japan was unified behind the war.... Kamikaze Diaries is a timely and necessary correction of a popular myth, and an important contribution to the understanding of Japan at war." - Economist"
£16.15
The University of Chicago Press Kamikaze Cherry Blossoms and Nationalisms
Book SynopsisWhy did almost 1000 highly educated "student soldiers" volunteer to serve in Japan's kamikaze operations at the end of World War II, even though Japan was losing the war? This study of the role of the state in pushing imperial ideology shows the power of symbolic communication.
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Reign of Virtue
Book SynopsisExploring the effects of military defeat and Nazi occupation on French articulations of gender in wartime France, this text uses such sources as governmental archives and propaganda to explore the ways in which Vichy politicians used gendered images to maintain political and social order.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword by Catharine R. Stimpson Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1: "We are Beaten": Women, Natalism, and Familialism from the Third Republic to Vichy 2: "The Blood Tax of Motherhood": Vichy and the Regulation of Female Sexuality 3: "To Make Men of Them"? Education for a New France 4: Vichy In/Action: Mobilizing Men and "Family" 5: "Do Not Expect Too Much from the State": Images, Words, and Action in Vichy's Welfarism 6: "In the Present Circumstances": Women's Work, Women's Dependency 7: A Story of Women? Vichy and the Politics of Abortion, 1942-44 Conclusion: The Etat Francais and the Politics of Gender Notes References Index
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Reign of Virtue Mobilizing Gender in Vichy France
Book SynopsisExploring the effects of military defeat and Nazi occupation on French articulations of gender in wartime France, this text uses such sources as governmental archives and propaganda to explore the ways in which Vichy politicians used gendered images to maintain political and social order.
£31.35
The University of Chicago Press Taking Leave Taking Liberties American Troops on
Book SynopsisAmerican soldiers overseas during World War II were famously said to be overpaid, oversexed, and over here. But the assaults, rapes, and other brutal acts didn't only happen elsewhere, far away from a home front depicted as safe and unscathed by the good war. To the contrary, millions of American and Allied troops regularly poured into ports like New York and Los Angeles while on leave. Euphemistically called friendly invasions, these crowds of men then forced civilians to contend with the same kinds of crime and sexual assault unfolding in places like Britain, France, and Australia. With unsettling clarity, Aaron Hiltner reveals what American troops really did on the home front. While GIs are imagined to have spent much of the war in Europe or the Pacific, before the run-up to D-day in the spring of 1944 as many as 75% of soldiers were stationed in US port cities, including more than three million who moved through New York City. In these cities, largely uncontrolled soldiers soughTrade Review“Phrases like ‘the Good War,’ and ‘The Greatest Generation’ reassure us of the Second World War’s redemptive power. With Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq all clouding living memory, we can look back to a necessary war, fought by selfless volunteers against ruthless enemies. You can believe this fully, and Hiltner’s Taking Leave, Taking Liberties will still give you pause. Hiltner traces the mobilization of millions of men over the course of four years, and he explores the contradiction between fighting ideals and the spectacular rise of crime, sexual violence, assaults, and urban disorder wherever soldiers gathered on the home front. It is a fresh contribution to the history of World War II, of masculinity, and of violence.” -- Elliott Gorn, Loyola University Chicago“Hiltner shines a light on a little-known conflict that occurred on the American home front in World War II: one wrought by brawny and belligerent GIs who caroused and terrorized their way through liberty cities across the country. Rejecting military and civilian control, these men took the spoils of war for themselves, leaving civilians—often women—to fend for themselves. This is not a comforting story about the American home front in World War II, but it is a vital one with important lessons for today.” -- Kara Dixon Vuic, Texas Christian University“In this innovative study of World War II, Hiltner shows us another side of the home front: the ‘friendly invasions’ of US servicemen on leave in US liberty ports. The chaos that ensued—drunken brawls, racial and sexual violence, civilian-military conflict—reveals a darker side of wartime America and the far-reaching impact of the militarization of urban life.” -- Marilynn S. Johnson, Boston College"Taking Leave, Taking Liberties offers a whole new way of thinking about a moment in history we thought we already knew. From Times Square to Hollywood Boulevard to San Francisco’s Barbary Coast, servicemen on leave transformed the landscapes and economies of cities, upended civil-military relations, and redefined what Americans thought it meant to be a man. GI Joe, you’ve met your match in Hiltner: this is the freshest take on the World War II home front in a generation.” -- Christopher Capozzola, Massachusetts Institute of Technology“An important and powerful contribution to the literature on the World War II home front. Hiltner recovers the long-forgotten history of American liberty ports and reveals that U.S. civil-military relations were far more violent and chaotic than most Americans may want to believe.” -- Aaron O’Connell, University of Texas at Austin"Highly recommended. . . Well-written." * Choice *"Taking Leave, Taking Liberties is highly recommended for all those readers interested in what really happened in America during World War II. . . . Hiltner presents a far different portrait of what actually transpired on the home front. It is not a pretty picture." * The Journal of America's Military Past *"Taking Leave, Taking Liberties makes an important contribution to our understanding of the impact of World War II on American society and deserves a large audience. . . . In an engaging narrative, Hilter outlines a combination of factors that led to the breakdown of law and order in many port cities during World War II." * History *“Taking Leave, Taking Liberties is [Hiltner’s] first book. And what a book it is.” -- Laurence M. Vance * LewRockwell.com *"In this well-written and well-documented book, Hiltner effectively explores the development of a privileged, empowered GI culture and the consequences of unchecked superiority and aggressive masculinity that was unleashed in cities nationwide. In doing so, Hiltner adds an especially important and powerful chapter to the WWII civil-military story." * Home Front Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction What Happened on the Home Front Chapter One Making the Military Man Chapter Two Taking Liberty Chapter Three Women Face the Uniform Chapter Four The Militarized City Epilogue Postwar Invasions and Occupations Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography of Primary Sources Index
£20.90
The University of Chicago Press Other Peoples Troubles Phoenix Poets
Book SynopsisThe son of a Holocaust survivor, Jason Sommer writes of troubles which unfold in history and in the making of personality; of self and other; and of wakefulness and sleep. The poetic voice is one who emerges from the Holocaust, telling the stories of those who suffered.
£23.00
The University of Chicago Press Walter Benjamins Grave
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£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Walter Benjamins Grave
Book SynopsisIn September 1940, Walter Benjamin committed suicide in Port Bou on the Spanish-French border when it appeared that he and his travelling partners would be denied passage into Spain in their attempt to escape the Nazis. This is an essay about his cemetery, eyewitness accounts of Benjamin's border travails, and the circumstances of his demise.Trade Review"If Hunter S. Thompson had been trained by Boas in anthropology, Engels in economics, and Arendt in philosophy, he might write something like Taussig." - Publishers Weekly "Blending fact and fiction, ethnographic observation, archival history, literary theory and memoir, his books read more like beatnik novels than somber analyses of other cultures." - New York Times"
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press The War Complex
Book SynopsisShowing how different events from World War II became prominent in American cultural memory while others went forgotten or remain hidden in plain sight, this book moves from war films and historical works to television specials and popular magazines to define the image and influence of World War II.Trade Review"This book is wide-ranging, moving beyond American matters and authors. As a postmodernist critical approach, it succeeds in contextualizing American reactions to World War II by going deeper than national boundaries and impersonal narration." - Eric Solomon, American Literature"
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press The War Complex
Book SynopsisShowing how different events from World War II became prominent in American cultural memory while others went forgotten or remain hidden in plain sight, this book moves from war films and historical works to television specials and popular magazines to define the image and influence of World War II.Trade Review"This book is wide-ranging, moving beyond American matters and authors. As a postmodernist critical approach, it succeeds in contextualizing American reactions to World War II by going deeper than national boundaries and impersonal narration." - Eric Solomon, American Literature"
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Dark Lens Imaging Germany 1945
Book SynopsisTrade Review“It is the ‘righteous pleasure in retribution’ that worries Meltzer in Dark Lens, a work of scholarship organized around a collection of previously unpublished amateur photographs, taken by Jeanne Dumilieu (the author’s mother), that feature ruins in the wake of the Allied bombings of Germany. . . . Our gaze is precisely what Meltzer is interested in investigating. What and how do we see when we see these photos? Can we even see the ruin as such? This proposition suggests a provocative way of rereading the history of interest in and representation of ruins. Perhaps our enduring obsession with them—and our drive to depict and behold them—is fueled by our very inability to reckon with destruction.” -- Nathan Goldman * Lapham's Quarterly *“Meltzer’s Dark Lens is based around a couple of dozen snaps which her mother, a Frenchwoman who had been in the Resistance, took of ruined German cities immediately after the war. This personal angle whets the reader’s appetite, as does the reminder of just how strangely fascinated we all are by ruins.” -- James Hawes * The Spectator *"Dark Lens offers striking insights into Meltzer’s childhood experiences as a foreigner in a defeated land. . . The book is elegantly written and cogently argued." * German Studies Review *“A cache of Jeanne Dumilieu’s previously unpublished photographs of these destroyed German cityscapes forms the focal point of Dark Lens, a genre-defying book that is at once a family photo album, an autobiographical meditation, a cultural history of ruins, and a rigorous work of photographic criticism. . . . Meltzer’s latest book is a welcome addition to scholarship that, in the last decade, has finally begun to take photography seriously as a medium that can productively complicate historical understandings of traumatic history.” * Central European History *"Meltzer’s book is a fascinating study of a long-gone but still resonant period and raises important ethical and aesthetic questions. It is written with elegance and grace, and it deserves respectful attention from German Studies scholars." * Monatshefte *“Meltzer has written a masterpiece—an intensely personal, beautifully expressed, and reflective critical interrogation of transgenerational haunting in relation to the ruins that dominated her own childhood in post-War Germany. One special feature of Meltzer's writing is the subtle and riveting range of perspectives she brings. It is rare to find such voices so superbly melded in so urgent and important a text." -- Jas Elsner, University of Oxford“Can catastrophe and the suffering of others be persuasively represented so as to reduce human suffering? In Dark Lens, Meltzer addresses this question fully, with a theoretically versatile examination of attempts to capture catastrophes in words and images. Meltzer stresses the historical and ethical contexts in which these texts demand to be read but recognizes that no amount of theorizing or moralizing will domesticate the upsetting incongruities she lays bare.” -- Werner Sollors, author of The Temptation of Despair: Tales of the 1940s"Meltzer’s meditation on her mother’s searing photographs of German ruins is bold yet subtle. Dark Lens tears these images out of the continuum of history to examine civilian suffering. Meltzer suggests a way of looking at pictures of destruction without lapsing into either moral relativism or another cycle of blame and retribution." -- Ulrich C. Baer, New York University"Can we escape the Romantics’ aesthetization of ruins when we 'read' Germany’s ruins? Do the texts, paintings and photographs allow us to 'see' the suffering of civilians – then and now? No other ruin scholar has raised the ethical questions provoked by these haunting ruinscapes as subtly and rigorously as Meltzer. When she leaves us alone with her mother’s photographs, Meltzer’s probing reflections have prepared us to think about what a concept of ruin art might mean in this politically treacherous context." -- Julia Hell, co-editor of Ruins of Modernity and author of The Conquest of Ruins: The Third Reich and the Fall of RomeTable of ContentsWhat I Remember By Way of Beginning 1 When Words Fail: Writing Disaster 2 Ruination in Painting: Making the Unspeakable Visible 3 Through a Lens, Darkly: Texts and Images 4 Suffering and Victimization Foregone and Other Conclusions Appendix Acknowledgments Bibliography Index
£24.00
McGill-Queen's University Press From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg
Book SynopsisTrade Review“From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg acquaints the English-language reader with an important document about the Holocaust. It’s especially worthwhile to read the afterword, which reveals in detail the complicated process of creating this remarkable book, an exemplary scholarly feat.” Forward Reviews“This book is a must-read for any student and scholar of the Holocaust. It is a captivating documentation of life in the Vilna Ghetto, with valuable additional material about the poet’s Nuremberg testimony and encounters with Soviet Yiddish writers. Cammy and Novershtern’s stellar editing and translation make the book an indispensable tool for delineating the complex historical and political contexts of Sutzkever’s poetry during and after the war.” LA Review of Books
£27.90
Columbia University Press Deadly Imbalances Tripolarity Hitlers Strategy of World Conquest
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£999.99
Columbia University Press The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust
Book SynopsisPresents an overview of the Holocaust, placing it within the larger context of Nazi Germany and World War II. This book examines the question: Were the Jews the sole targets of Nazi genocide, or must other groups, such as homosexuals, the handicapped, Gypsies, and political dissenters, also be included?Trade ReviewOne of the most useful portable Holocaust reference works published in the last few years. What makes this work so interesting is that it is structured so differently from most other one-volume works on the topic...Recommended for all libraries. Library Journal An impressive volume, and the authors have succeeded in providing a handy one-volume, multipurpose guide to the Holocaust. -- John A. Drobnicki American Reference Books Annual Useful and recommended for all libraries. Choice Very helpful and useful. Center for Holocaust Studies A valuable work of reference. It is superbly organized and its quality is uniform throughout. Succinct, lucid, and informative, this compact volume is also up-to-date. It fills a broad need. -- Raul HilbergTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I. Historical Overview Excluding the Racially Inferior, 1933-1939 War and the Beginning of Genocide, 1939-1941 The Final Solution, 1941-1944 The End of the Holocaust, 1944-1945 Aftermath and Legacies Part II. Problems and Interpretations Defining the Holocaust Roots of the Holocaust How the "Final Solution" Came About The Perpetrators and Their Motivations The Victims' Reactions to Persecution The Behavior of Bystanders The Question of Rescue The Lasting Effect of the Holocaust Part III. Chronology Part IV. Encyclopedia People Places Terms Organizations Part V. Resources Printed Reference Works Printed Sources (Primary and Secondary) Filmography Electronic Resources Resource Organizations, Museums, and Memorials Appendix 1. Tables Appendix 2. Maps Index
£28.80
Columbia University Press The Holocaust Essays and Documents
Book SynopsisGermany's leading Holocaust scholar has crafted a concise, well-written, and powerful introduction to the subject, concluding with a discussion of what the Germans knew about the genocide.Trade ReviewThis will be an essay of choice for anyone wishing a sophisticated description of the major aspects of the genocide of the Jews. -- Deborah E. Lipstadt Washington Post [T]he book pulls no punches, is well written, and is thorough in its presentation. -- Samuel Totten Canadian Social Studies Book Review By detailing the events that led Jews to be stripped of their rights, resettled in ghettos and deported to the killing centers, Benz's work provides and indisputable record of the Nazi genocide. Hadassah Magazine A good, short history of the Holocaust. Neue Zurcher Zeitung An example of superb analysis. Das SonntagsblattTable of Contents1. Talks Followed by Breakfast: The Wannsee Conference of January 20, 1942 2. German Jews and National Socialism: Self-Image and Threat 3. Exclusion and Discrimination of the Jews in Germany, 1933-1939 4. Jewish Emigration, 1933-1941 5. Aryanization and the Jewish Star: German Jews Are Totally Stripped of Their Civil Rights, 1939-1941 6. Ghettos in Occupied Eastern Europe: The Beginning of the Final Solution of the Jewish Question 7. From Antisemitism to Genocide: The Genesis of the Final Solution 8. Massacre in the East: Einsatzgruppen and Other Killing, 1941-1942Units in the Occupied Territories 9. The Deportation of the Jews from Germany 10. Theresienstadt 11. The Other Genocide: The Persecution of the Sinti and Roma 12. Industrialized Mass Murder in the Extermination Camps, by 1942-1944
£78.20
Columbia University Press The Columbia Guide to Hiroshima and the Bomb
Book SynopsisDescribes the wartime circumstances and thinking that form the context for the decision to use the weapons, surveys the major debates related to that decision, and provides a comprehensive collection of key primary source documents that illuminate the behavior of the United States and Japan during the closing days of World War II.Trade ReviewA rich resource to the complex and often profoundly controversial questions surrounding the bomb of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Reference & Research Book News Lucid and careful summaries of the issues...[a] substantial and well-chosen collection of documents from American and Japanese sources -- Lawrence D. Freedman Foreign Affairs Not only comprehensive but so engaging... This is a book for every library. -- Joe P. Dunn American Reference Books Annual An indispensable book. -- Robert James Maddox Journal of Cold War Studies Innovative. -- Philip Nash H-Diplo By giving the nuclear debate life before the Cold War, Kort revitalizes it for a new complex era. The Columbia Guide to Hiroshima and the Bomb makes a valuable contribution. -- Jay Larson Peace and ChangeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I. Historical Narrative 1. The Debate Over Hiroshima 2. Building the Atomic Bomb 3. The Pacific War 4. The Decision to Drop the Bomb 5. The Japanese Government, Ketsu-Go, and Potsdam 6. Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Japan's Surrender 7. Hiroshima and American Power Part II. Key Questions and Interpretations Part III. Resources Chronology Glossary of Military Terms and Abbreviations Glossary of Names Selected Bibliography Part IV. Documents Guide to the Documents A. American Civilian Documents B. American Military Documents C. MAGIC Diplomatic Summaries D. Japanese Government Documents, Military Documents, and Diary Entries E. Japanese Surrender Documents F. United States Strategic Bombing Survey: Summary Report and Interrogations of Japanese Officials G. Statements of Japanese Officials on World War II, Military Intelligence Section, Historical Division, U.S. Army Notes Index
£52.70
Columbia University Press The Fire
Book SynopsisCombining research with illustrations, this book presents an account of the saturation bombing, rendering in detail the annihilation of cities such as Dresden, the jewel of Germany's rich art and architectural heritage.Trade ReviewExhaustive and harrowing ... Friedrich's aim seems to be not only to wrest the history of German suffering from the clutch of the far right but to rescue the glories of German history from the twelve years of Hitler's thousand-year Reich. -- Ian Buruma New York Review of Books The Fire represents the continuation of Friedrich's generation's indictment of National Socialism--except now the finger is pointed at the Allies, and sympathy is extended to the civilian Germans who were their victims. The Nation What W. G. Sebald lamented about the lack of open discourse on the air war appears to have been blown apart with the publication of The Fire. -- Noah Isenberg Bookforum Jorg Friedrich's achievement in The Fire has been to tell this tale of death and destruction with a rare plasticity and vividness. German Historical Institute London Bulletin Riveting. TIME Europe [Jorg Friedrich] describes in stark, unrelenting and very literary detail what happened in city after city as the Allies dropped 80 million incendiary bombs on Germany... There is ... an edginess to Friedrich's writing and commentary, an emotional power. New York Times Jorg Friedrich tells the story from the viewpoint of the bombed with... great skill and objectivity. -- Paul Johnson The American Spectator Thorough and methodical... Friedrich's book underscores that precision bombing is anything but a scientific enterprise. -- Stanley Hoffman Foreign Affairs Mr. Friedrich deserves credit for both his diligence and his descriptive powers. Economist An indictment both of Hitler's appropriation of German history and of the Allies' destruction of a nation's culture... Thoughtful and detailed. Library Journal This is a book that demands to be read, no matter how uncomfortable the experience. -- David Cesarani The Independent [A] haunting book... forceful, incendiary. Atlantic Monthly A well-documented piece of historical writing... [that] is also a poignant, lyrical and terrible account of human suffering. -- Adam R. Seipp Houston Chronicle A vivid and powerful critique of war... [The Fire is] fascinating, ground-breaking, and thought-provoking. -- Roger Moorhouse BBC History Magazine Recommended. Choice A contribution to the German literature of remembrance; it is also a passionate denunciation of the excesses of the air war. -- Harold Dorn Technology and CultureTable of Contents1. Weapon 2. Strategy 3. Land 4. Protection 5. We 6. I 7. Stone Editorial Remarks Notes Bibliography
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Columbia University Press The Japanese and the War Expectation Perception
Book SynopsisJapanese memories of World War II exert a powerful influence over the nation’s society and culture. Michael Lucken explores how the war manifested in literature, art, film, funerary practices, and education reform, creating an idea of Japanese identity that still resonates from soap operas to the response to the Fukushima nuclear disaster.Trade ReviewIn this highly readable book, Michael Lucken combines an encyclopedic overview of Japan's diverse conflicts over the memory of WWII with a razor-sharp dissection of their historical origins. At the core of this, Lucken argues, lies the fateful interplay between wartime ideologies and Japan's American-brokered entry into the postwar world. -- Franziska Seraphim, Boston College Michael Lucken's The Japanese and the War provides, in the form of a wonderfully curated collection of insightful and instructive vignettes, both a comprehensive overview and an intimate portrayal of trans-war Japanese society. The work skillfully ties together the disparate fields of visual and material culture, the experience of all-out war, and the politics of war memory. Deftly translated, the book is a pleasure to read. -- Akiko Takenaka, University of Kentucky Michael Lucken skillfully combines a cultural history of wartime Japan with an account of how narratives and memories of the conflict emerged during the occupation and beyond. For those seeking to understand the roots of Japan's "memory wars" and the "history issue" in Asia, this book is an excellent place to start. -- Philip Seaton, Hokkaido UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments A Note on Names Introduction 1. The Nation Out to Conquer 2. A Totalitarian Dynamic, 1940-1945 3. The Meaning of the War 4. Heroes and the Dead 5. Fear and Destruction 6. Postwar Complexities 7. The American Occupation, or the Present Versus the Past 8. The Plurality of History 9. Individual Conscience and Collective Inertia 10. Memory and Religion 11. From Monument to Museum: The Difficult Path to Healing Conclusion Notes Index
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Columbia University Press Hidden Atrocities
Book SynopsisHidden Atrocities reveals the American obstruction that denied justice to Japan’s WWII victims at the postwar Tokyo Trial. Jeanne Guillemin explains how U.S. national security goals led to the failure to prosecute imperial Japanese leaders for the war crimes of Unit 731, Japan’s secret germ-warfare program.Trade ReviewGuillemin is a recognized, well-published leading authority on the history of biological warfare in the United States. No other book delves this deeply into the behind-the-scenes machinations of US military intelligence in Japan and the inner circle of presidential advisors in Washington to keep Unit 731 and its horrendous acts from being exposed to the light of justice in the Tokyo Trials. -- Walter E. Grunden, Bowling Green State UniversityTable of ContentsPrologue: General Ishii and Germ WarfareIntroduction: Lasting Peace and the Protection of Civilians1. MacArthur in Japan: “Punish the War Criminals”2. Spoils of War: Secret Japanese Biological Science3. International Prosecution Section: Toward the “Swift and Simple Trial”4. The Investigation for Evidence in China5. The Best Witnesses6. Tokyo: The Rush to Trial7. The Trial Begins8. The Atrocities9. The Soviet Division Versus US Military Intelligence10. National Security Versus Medical Ethics11. Open and Closed TrialsEpilogue: The FalloutAcknowledgmentsSource NotesAcronymsPrincipal CharactersNotesIndex
£28.50
Columbia University Press Feeling Memory
Book SynopsisWhat did it feel like to be a child in France during World War II? Feeling Memory is an affective exploration of children’s lives in wartime France and the ways they are remembered.Trade ReviewA sensitive and imaginative exploration of the connections among war, childhood, and memory that demonstrates the meaning of emotions and feelings as historical forces. -- Alessandro Portelli, author of The Text and the Voice: Writing, Speaking, Democracy, and American LiteratureFeeling Memory deftly weaves together 'memory stories' and the latest scholarship to provide an entirely fresh approach to World War II in France. The result is a richly textured, nuanced study of the emotions of history that offers us new ways to think about children’s experiences and the places and events that shape our memory of the past. -- Shannon L. Fogg, author of Stealing Home: Looting, Restitution, and Reconstructing Jewish Lives in France, 1942-1947Feeling Memory theorizes a history of a present where events matter, memories stick and accrete, time ruptures, experiences generate, and little worlds proliferate around sounds, rhythms, and things. It experiments, listening for the intensities and unknown potential of an affective history from the inside out where the things of the world speak differently to one another. -- Kathleen C. Stewart, author of Ordinary AffectsIn a compelling mixture of theory, reflections on method, and vivid vignettes, Feeling Memory explores the emotions that animate and bind memory in oral history. Its insights extend well beyond the interview, however: Dodd shows what a history of emotions can achieve once affect is seen not just in terms of social prescriptions but as the glue that binds memory and relationships past and present. -- Michael Roper, author of Afterlives of War: A Descendants' HistoryFeeling Memory provides a nuanced and sophisticated explication of how the emotional content of memory shapes the remembered past into the present. Dodd contends that all historians—not just oral historians—need to take affective forms of knowledge more seriously and to search for the traces of feelings in their sources and analyses. The memory stories that are at the heart of the book are truly engaging and often moving. They make the book come alive. -- Ellen R. Boucher, author of Empire's Children: Child Emigration, Welfare, and the Decline of the British World, 1869-1967Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsChronologyA Note on Transcription and TranslationIntroductionPause—Anne-Marie and Her FatherPositioningPart I. Memories Felt1. Articulated FeelingPause—Daniel: Fear on the Road2. Affects and IntensitiesPause—Nicole: Inside DrancyPart II. Memories LocatedPause—Nancette: Happy Places, Happy Times3. The Weirdness of Memory Time4. Places in Traumatic Memory5. Spaces in Traumatic MemoryPause—Hélène: Persecution and SpacePart III. Memories ToldPause—Filming Marie-Madeleine6. Regimes of Memory, Regimes of Feeling7. Communities of Memory, Communities of FeelingPause—Édith and Jean CompetePart IV. Memories Lived8. Materialities of the EverydayPause—Henri Plays at War9. Affective OthersPause—Danièle: The Strain of UncertaintyPause—Robert: The Contingency of Moral Meaning10. Contingency and RuptureConclusion: A Palette of HaecceitiesAppendix: The IntervieweesNotesBibliography
£105.30
Columbia University Press Feeling Memory
Book SynopsisWhat did it feel like to be a child in France during World War II? Feeling Memory is an affective exploration of children’s lives in wartime France and the ways they are remembered.Trade ReviewA sensitive and imaginative exploration of the connections among war, childhood, and memory that demonstrates the meaning of emotions and feelings as historical forces. -- Alessandro Portelli, author of The Text and the Voice: Writing, Speaking, Democracy, and American LiteratureFeeling Memory deftly weaves together 'memory stories' and the latest scholarship to provide an entirely fresh approach to World War II in France. The result is a richly textured, nuanced study of the emotions of history that offers us new ways to think about children’s experiences and the places and events that shape our memory of the past. -- Shannon L. Fogg, author of Stealing Home: Looting, Restitution, and Reconstructing Jewish Lives in France, 1942-1947Feeling Memory theorizes a history of a present where events matter, memories stick and accrete, time ruptures, experiences generate, and little worlds proliferate around sounds, rhythms, and things. It experiments, listening for the intensities and unknown potential of an affective history from the inside out where the things of the world speak differently to one another. -- Kathleen C. Stewart, author of Ordinary AffectsIn a compelling mixture of theory, reflections on method, and vivid vignettes, Feeling Memory explores the emotions that animate and bind memory in oral history. Its insights extend well beyond the interview, however: Dodd shows what a history of emotions can achieve once affect is seen not just in terms of social prescriptions but as the glue that binds memory and relationships past and present. -- Michael Roper, author of Afterlives of War: A Descendants' HistoryFeeling Memory provides a nuanced and sophisticated explication of how the emotional content of memory shapes the remembered past into the present. Dodd contends that all historians—not just oral historians—need to take affective forms of knowledge more seriously and to search for the traces of feelings in their sources and analyses. The memory stories that are at the heart of the book are truly engaging and often moving. They make the book come alive. -- Ellen R. Boucher, author of Empire's Children: Child Emigration, Welfare, and the Decline of the British World, 1869-1967Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsChronologyA Note on Transcription and TranslationIntroductionPause—Anne-Marie and Her FatherPositioningPart I. Memories Felt1. Articulated FeelingPause—Daniel: Fear on the Road2. Affects and IntensitiesPause—Nicole: Inside DrancyPart II. Memories LocatedPause—Nancette: Happy Places, Happy Times3. The Weirdness of Memory Time4. Places in Traumatic Memory5. Spaces in Traumatic MemoryPause—Hélène: Persecution and SpacePart III. Memories ToldPause—Filming Marie-Madeleine6. Regimes of Memory, Regimes of Feeling7. Communities of Memory, Communities of FeelingPause—Édith and Jean CompetePart IV. Memories Lived8. Materialities of the EverydayPause—Henri Plays at War9. Affective OthersPause—Danièle: The Strain of UncertaintyPause—Robert: The Contingency of Moral Meaning10. Contingency and RuptureConclusion: A Palette of HaecceitiesAppendix: The IntervieweesNotesBibliography
£28.50
University of Illinois Press Mussolinis Army in the French Riviera
Book SynopsisIn contrast to its brutal seizure of the Balkans, the Italian Army's 1940-1943 relatively mild occupation of the French Riviera and nearby alpine regions bred the myth of the Italian brava gente, or good fellow, an agreeable occupier who abstained from the savage wartime behaviors so common across Europe. Employing a multi-tiered approach, Emanuele Sica examines the simultaneously conflicting and symbiotic relationship between the French population and Italian soldiers. At the grassroots level, Sica asserts that the cultural proximity between the soldiers and the local population, one-quarter of which was Italian, smoothed the sharp angles of miscommunication and cultural faux-pas at a time of great uncertainty. At the same time, it encouraged a laxness in discipline that manifested as fraternization and black marketeering. Sica's examination of political tensions highlights how French prefects and mayors fought to keep the tatters of sovereignty in the face of military occupation. In Trade Review"His study is therefore rewarding for his continuous Franco-Italian perspective and the recurrent use of local documents from the Alpes-Maritimes which gives a profound insight in the complex daily life in South-Eastern France under Italian occupation."--French History"A well-crafted, clearly organized, and thoroughly researched account of a little known story. It sheds an intriguing and important light, in addition, on the vagaries, complexities, and contradictions of military occupation."--H-War"Emanuele Sica, a professor of history at the Royal Military College of Canada, brings us his sweeping knowledge and penetrating analysis to highlight this neglected part of World War II historiography. Mr. Sica is not only well-informed but finely attuned to the historical and cultural crosscurrents which made this a kinder, gentler occupation than its brutal northern counterpart."--Washington Times"The Italian Army's invasions (June 1940 and November 1942) and occupation of southeastern France have been discussed in specialized articles and sometimes mentioned, cursorily, in the general histories of WWII. Until now, however, no study has made these events accessible to both scholars and general readers. . . . Readers are left with a deeper understanding of the context, events, and significance of this important episode of Italian history. Highly recommended."--Choice"Engagingly written, clear, and undoubtedly helps to fill an important gap in the English-language scholarship on the occupation of France."--H-France Review"Tells a story previously uncovered in English-language historical literature. [Sica's] book is well written and extensively researched."--NYMAS Review"Sica clearly and deftly integrates the archival sources together and covers a variety of military, political, socio-economic, and cultural issues. A significant contribution to the historiography of the Second World War."--Ian F. W. Beckett, author of The Making of the First World War"Emanuele Sica offers a nuanced perspective on the Italian occupation of France based on solid research from both French and Italian archives, shedding light on the complex triangular relationship between the French, Italians, and Germans at war."--Shannon Fogg, author of The Politics of Everyday Life in Vichy France: Foreigners, Undesirables, and Strangers
£28.80
Indiana University Press Battle of Surigao Strait
Book SynopsisSurigao Strait in the Philippine Islands was the scene of a major battleship duel during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. This book pulls together all of the existing documentary material, including newly discovered accounts and a careful analysis of US Navy action reports, to create a new and more detailed description of the action.Trade Review"Anthony Tully has managed to trace the complicated flow of and reason for events... with a skill and aplomb that forces one to reconsider previously held views." —Naval History"With copious endnotes, an extensive and interesting bibliography and thorough index, this book is worth buying by serious students of the Pacific War and for institutional libraries with a strong military history focus." —The Journal of Naval History"By giving a fuller view of the Japanese side, Tully's work forces a substantial revision of the traditional picture of the battle. Battle of Surigao Strait is not only military history based on scrupulous use of a plethora of new source materials, but is a spanking good read. Highly recommended." —War in History"Aims to sort out the discrepancies that have crept in over time to standard accounts of the battle... a confused and complex night action. Of special interest is Tully's exploitation of fresh source materials." —Malcolm Muir, Jr., author of Black Shoes and Blue Water: Surface Warfare in the United States Navy, 1945–1975"If the vibrant international community of experts who study the Pacific War and discuss and debate it online can be seen as a mafia, then Anthony Tully is its consigliore. Whenever a question arises about the battle history of World War II in the Pacific--what really happened after the fleets collided, dive-bombers entered their dives, and shot met plate--he is the indispensable man. In this book he paints Admiral Nishimura's high-speed run into history with an entirely fresh palette of detail, from the command decisions to the after-action reports. It offers naval history buffs something fresh and easy to relish on almost every page" —James D. Hornfischer, author of Ship of Ghosts and The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors"Tully's narrative is clear and clarifies a confused night battle in restricted waters. He disputes several perceived truths about the battle by giving the reader a complete record of what each ship was doing at each stage of the battle." —Military Review"The skillful incorporation of personal testimony from those involved is what really elevates this work above run-of-the-mill naval history and turns it into something special." —WarshipTable of ContentsList of MapsPreface AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsPrologue: "Retiring towards the enemy."1. "I have returned."2. "Bah. We will do our best."3. "We are going to participate in a surface special attack."4. "It is deemed advisable for 2YB to storm into Leyte Gulf."5. "He gallantly came to a stop and started rescue work."6. "Everybody aboard thought a BB could force a narrow strait."7. "Make all ready for night battle."8. "A most tragic dispatch."9. "Take out the searchlight."10. "He wished them to know he was penetrating alone."11. "Just scored a big flare on 1 of them."12. "You are to proceed independently and attack all ships!"13. "At 0345 observed battleship burning."14. "This has to be quick. Standby your torpedoes."15. "An awfully gruesome sound, which passed from left to right."16. "We proceed till totally annihilated."17. "We have arrived at battle site."18. "In God's name, where's the doctor?"19. "The chances of success are nil."20. "It was the kind of naval battle you dream about."Epilogue: "A thing repeated will happen a third time."AppendicesNotesBibliographyIndex
£17.09
Indiana University Press Looking After Minidoka An American Memoir Break
Book SynopsisBlends history, poetry, rescued memory, and family storiesTrade ReviewThis remarkable book is highly recommended reading for (younger) Sansei, Yonsei, Gosei and members of the burgeoning hapa population, as well of those of whatever background, in and out of educational institutions, who seek enrichment as individuals and communal beings within a multicultural nation via greater awareness of the Nikkei experience in the United States. * Nichi Bei *Poetic yet sharply honest, the family story unfolds within the larger context of the national saga. You'll wince but read it anyway. Your soul will be better for it. * Nuvo *This book is highly readable and contains fascinating details not usually covered in other books on Japanese American history. * Oregon Historical Quarterly *Table of ContentsPreface: My NickelAcknowledgements Note on Terminology and PronunciationIntroduction: Looking After Minidoka I. IsseiII. NiseiIII. Minidoka, 1942-1945IV. SanseiV. UnfinishedBibliographyCredits
£15.19
Indiana University Press The Battle of Leyte Gulf
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThese pages provide the reader a veritable wealth of information. The book is a valuable addition in the historiography of the Battle of Leyte Gulf specifically and to naval history and World War Two in general. It will certainly become a classic. Vol. 6, No. 4 (Winter 2011) * Canadian Naval Review *The Battle of Leyte Gulf is an outstanding addition to a Pacific library.August 2008 * Paper Wars *An outstanding contribution to the military and naval history of our times.2008 -- Lisle A. Rose * World War II Quarterly *. . . supported by clear and helpful maps, helpful appendices, and lengthy footnotes that underline the scholarship involved. It is good value as a hardback and will contribute to Indiana's reputation for publishing first-rate military history. * History *. . . deliciously provocative interpretation of the nature of the conflict and the reasons for American victory. * International Journal of Maritime History *[A]n outstanding book which can be appreciated by naval historians and those who have a general interest in the subject. * Journal of Military History *W. P. willmott provides new perspectives on the unfolding of the battle and very deliberately seeks to give readers a proper understanding of the importance of this battle for American naval operations in the following month. This careful interrogation of the accounts of 'the last fleet action' is a significant contribution to military history. * McCormick Messenger *Those who have done their preliminary reading and are ready for the advanced course on Leyte, however, will turn to Willmott. There they will have the opportunity to savor the work of a master military historian at the top of his game. -- Robert M. Citino * HistoryNet *Table of ContentsList of MapsList of TablesAcknowledgments1. The Nature of War and Victory2. The Option of Difficulties: The American Situation in the Aftermath of the Victory in the Philippine Sea3. The Search for Solutions: The Japanese Situation in the Aftermath of Defeat in the Philippine Sea4. Preliminaries: 6-18 October 19445. Advance and Contact, 18-24 October 19446. The Great Day of Wrath: 25 October 19447. The Naval Battle for the Philippines: The Postscript, 26 October-30 November 19448. To Pause and Consider: Blame, Responsibility, and the Verdict of History.AppendixesNotesPrimary SourcesSecondary SourcesIndex
£21.59
Indiana University Press The Operation Reinhard Death Camps Revised and
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewDrawing on a wealth of evidence . . . Arad lets the terrible record speak for itself... Mr. Arad reports as a controlled and effective witness for the prosecution . . . Mr. Arad's book, with its abundance of horrifying detail, reminds us of how far we have to go. * New York Times Book Review *With meticulous scholarship and precise exposition Tel Aviv historian and Yad Vashem director Arad recounts all facets of Operation Reinhard, the destruction of 1.5 million Jews in occupied Poland from 1941 to 1943. . . . This comprehensive, judicious, and moving history is a remarkable contribution to Holocaust studies and is strongly recommended * Library Journal *This is the authentic, exhaustive, definitive account of the least known death camps of the Nazi era. -- Raul HilbergThis is the authentic, exhaustive, definitive account of the least known death camps of the Nazi era. -- Raul Hilberg, author of The Destruction of the European JewsWith meticulous scholarship and precise exposition Tel Aviv historian and Yad Vashem director Arad recounts all facets of Operation Reinhard, the destruction of 1.5 million Jews in occupied Poland from 1941 to 1943. . . . This comprehensive, judicious, and moving history is a remarkable contribution to Holocaust studies and is strongly recommended * Library Journal *Drawing on a wealth of evidence . . . Arad lets the terrible record speak for itself... Mr. Arad reports as a controlled and effective witness for the prosecution . . . Mr. Arad's book, with its abundance of horrifying detail, reminds us of how far we have to go. * New York Times Book Review *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Part One: The Extermination Machine1. The Jews of the General Government, September 1939–June 1941: Deportations and Ghettoization2. The Road to Operation Reinhard3. Operation Reinhard: Organization and Manpower4. Belzec: Construction and Establishing the Method of Annihilation5. Construction of Sobibor6. Construction of Treblinka7. Preparing for the Deportations8. Expulsion from the Ghettos9. The Trains of Death10. Belzec: March 17 to June, 194211. Sobibor: May to July, 194212. Treblinka: July 23 to August 28, 194213. Reorganization in Treblinka14. The Mission of Gerstein and Pfannenstiel15. Jewish Working Prisoners16. Women Prisoners17. Improving Extermination Techniques and Installations18. The Annihilation of the Jews in the General Government19. Deportations from Bialystok General District (Bezirk Bialystok) and Reichskommissariat Ostland20. Transports from Other European Countries21. The Extermination of Gypsies22. The Economic Plunder23. Himmler's Visit to Sobibor and Treblinka24. The Erasure of the CrimesPart Two: Life in the Shadow of Death25. Portraits of the Perpetrators26. The Prisoners' Daily Life27. The Prisoners and the Deportees28. Faith and Religion29. Diseases, Epidemics, and Suicide30. Social LifePart Three: Escape and Resistance31. The Cognizance and Reaction of the Victims in Occupied Poland32. Escapes from the Trains and Spontaneous Acts of Resistance33. Escapes from the Camps34. The Underground in Treblinka35. The Plan for the Uprising in Treblinka36. August 2, 1943: The Uprising in Treblinka37. Pursuit and Escape from Treblinka38. Ideas and Organization for Resistance in Sobibor39. The Underground in Sobibor40. The Plan for the Uprising in Sobibor41. October 14, 1943: The Uprising in Sobibor42. Pursuit and Escape from Sobibor43. Survival among the Local Population44. Operation Reinhard and Reports about the Death Camps in Polish Wartime Publications45. An Evaluation of the Uprisings and Their ResultsPart Four: The Final Stage of Operation Reinhard46. Operation Erntefest47. The Liquidation of the Camps and the Termination of Operation Reinhard48. Assessing the Number of Victims of Operation ReinhardEpilogue Appendix A. The Deportation of the Jews from the General Government, Bialystok General District, and Ostland Appendix B. The Fate of the Perpetrators of Operation ReinhardBibliography Index
£56.10
Indiana University Press Witness to the Storm A Jewish Journey from Nazi
Book SynopsisA testament to the power of perseverance and forgiveness, Witness to the Storm is the spellbinding story of Werner T. Angress, a German-Jewish boy who escaped from the Nazis, only to return to Germany with the 82nd Airborne to fight to rescue the country that had betrayed him.Trade ReviewAn impressive and detailed memoir that showcases the eternal temerity of youth tempered by prevailing conditions, Witness to the Storm is a must-read memoir...This book is ideal for anyone interested in the rise of Naziism, Jewish refugee emigration, or the American effort in World War II. -- Robert F. Williams * H-War, H-Net Reviews *Table of ContentsForewordPersonal Notes1. Family Life in Berlin, 1920-19362. Early Childhood and School Days3. The Youth Movement4. Gross Breesen Training Farm for Emigrants, 1936-19375. The Road into Exile, 1937-19396. United States - Hyde Farmlands, 1939-19417. Service in the Army and War8. From the Battle of the Bulge to the End of the War, 1944-1945Epilogue
£44.65
Indiana University Press Witness to the Storm A Jewish Journey from Nazi
Book SynopsisA testament to the power of perseverance and forgiveness, Witness to the Storm is the spellbinding story of Werner T. Angress, a German-Jewish boy who escaped from the Nazis, only to return to Germany with the 82nd Airborne to fight to rescue the country that had betrayed him.Trade ReviewAn impressive and detailed memoir that showcases the eternal temerity of youth tempered by prevailing conditions, Witness to the Storm is a must-read memoir...This book is ideal for anyone interested in the rise of Naziism, Jewish refugee emigration, or the American effort in World War II. -- Robert F. Williams * H-War, H-Net Reviews *Table of ContentsForewordPersonal Notes1. Family Life in Berlin, 1920-19362. Early Childhood and School Days3. The Youth Movement4. Gross Breesen Training Farm for Emigrants, 1936-19375. The Road into Exile, 1937-19396. United States - Hyde Farmlands, 1939-19417. Service in the Army and War8. From the Battle of the Bulge to the End of the War, 1944-1945Epilogue
£18.99
Indiana University Press Battle for Malaya
Book SynopsisThe defeat of 90,000 Commonwealth soldiers by 50,000 Japanese soldiers made the Battle for Malaya during World War II an important encounter for both political and military reasons. British military prestige was shattered, fanning the fires of nationalism in Asia, especially in India.Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Prelude to Invasion2. The Imperial Armies3. Retreat from the Beaches4. Defeat along the Slim and Muar Rivers5. Disaster at Johore6. Endgame at Singapore7. Assessment8. ConclusionBibliographyIndex
£25.19
