Second World War Books

Book SynopsisMany American women were held captive during Japan's military offensive in the South Pacific. This book chronicles their harrowing experiences, with the author focusing on the internment camps to show how the women coped and how the experience changed them.

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Book SynopsisDid we ""know"" the gas chambers were there? Could we have destroyed them? For decades, debate has raged over whether the Allies could have intervened to save thousands of lives at Auschwitz. In this volume, a number of historians address these questions, revealing a complex dilemma.

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Book SynopsisDavid Glantz recounts the miraculous resurrection of the Red Army, which, with a dazzling display of military strategy and operational prowess, stopped the Wehrmacht in its tracks and turned the tide of war. He offers insights into its doctrine, strategy, tactics, weaponry, training, officer corps, and political leadership..

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Book SynopsisDavid Max Eichhorn, a Jewish chaplain in the U.S. Army's XV Corps, saw action across France and into Germany until VE-Day and beyond. His letters show us a devoutly religious man trying to cope with the perils of combat and the needs of his fellow soldiers.

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Book SynopsisMary Glantz analyzes tensions shaping the policy stance of the US toward the Soviet Union before, during, and immediately after World War II. She shows how career officers were able to resist and shape presidential policy - and how their critical views helped shape the parameters of the subsequent Cold War.

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Book SynopsisBy failing to develop effective programs weapon development, Japan increased the probability that it could not triumph over its more advanced enemies. Walter Grunden underscores the dramatic scientific and technological disparities that left Japan vulnerable and ultimately led to its defeat in World War II..Trade Review“Provides a detailed account of Japanese science-based weapons research and development (R&D) programs in World War II. . . . Grunden writes clearly and presents his evidence well. For someone like me, who is not a specialist on Japan, this is a most useful contribution to the literature on science and technology in World War II, especially because the Japanese experience is examined in comparative perspective.”—Pacific Historical Review“A superb study of how Japan mobilized science and technology to develop advanced weapons during World War II.”—Technology and Culture

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

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

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Book SynopsisPresents an account of institutional transformation under extreme stress that balances Churchill's self-serving memoirs. This work demonstrates that what political leaders demand from their armies is less important than what those armies are designed to do - and that this oft-recurring disconnect lies at the root of wartime civil-military tension.Trade ReviewIncisive and informed, yet highly readable, this excellent book will surprise and provoke even those who think they really know the Second World War. It puts Churchill in his place, firmly yet fairly. Ranging across North Africa, Europe, and Southeast Asia, Callahan turns Britain's 'Forgotten Army' in Burma into the memorable centerpiece of this vivid story. David Reynolds, author of In Command of History: Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War ""A very fine and compelling work by a seasoned scholar and superior to John Keegan's Churchill's Generals. It's a pleasure to read."" Harold R. Winton, author of To Change an Army: General Sir John Burnett-Stuart and British Armored Doctrine, 1927-1938

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Book SynopsisThe Soviet Union was the first nation to allow women pilots to fly combat missions. Their amazing story, fully recounted for the first time by Reina Pennington, honours a group of fearless and determined women whose exploits have not yet received the recognition they deserve.Trade ReviewPennington's chilling tale of savage combat and incredible bravery and of the struggle of these pilots for recognition and acceptance will forever bury the myth that women cannot fight. A masterful and groundbreaking account of courageous women warriors." —Carlo D'Este, author of Patton: A Genius for War"It is impossible not to be stirred, even appalled, by the fate of some of these women." —John Erickson, author of The Road to Stalingrad"A vivid and often moving saga of women in combat. Both harrowing and inspiring, it should become a classic of World War II aviation history." —World War II History"Extraordinary and often deeply moving." —Times Literary Supplement

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

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Book SynopsisThe Black Hole of Auschwitz brings together Levi's writings on the Holocaust and his experiences of the concentration camp, as well as those on his own accidental status as a writer and his chosen profession of chemist.Trade Review"One of the most important and gifted writers of our time." Italo CalvinoTable of ContentsThrough the Looking Glass: Preface to the Italian Edition. Note to the Texts. PART I: THE BLACK HOLE OF AUSCHWITZ. 1. Deportees. Anniversary. 2. The Monument at Auschwitz. 3. ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’. 4. The Time of Swastikas. 5. Preface to the German Edition of If This is a Man. 6. Preface to the School Edition of the Truce. 7. Resistance in the Camps. 8. Preface to Y. Katzenelson’s The Song of the Murdered Jewish People. 9. Note to the Theatre Version of If This is a Man. 10. Preface to L.Poliakov’s Auschwitz. 11. To the Young: Preface to If This a Man. 12. A Past We Thought Would Never Return. 13. Preface to J. Presser’s The Night of the Girondins. 14. Films and Swastikas. 15. Letter to Latanzio: ‘Resign’. 16. Women to the Slaughter. 17. So That the SS do not Return. 18. It began with Kristallnacht. 19. Jean Améry, Philosopher and Suicide. 20. But We Were There. 21. Concentration Camp at Italy’s Door. 22. No Return to the Holocausts of the Past (Nazi. Massacres, Crowds and the TV). 23. Images of Holocaust. 24. Europe in Hell. 25. Anne Frank, the Voice of History. 26. Seekers of Lies to Deny the Holocaust. 27. To the Visitor. 28. You Tell Me if This is Fortunate Jew. 29. The Pharaoh with the Swastika. 30. Preface to H. Langbein’s People in Auschwitz. 31. Why See These Images Again?. 32. Preface to R. Höss’s Commadant of Aushwitz. 33. The Black Hole of Auschwitz. 34. Preface to La vita offesa. 35. To Our Generation. PART II: OTHER PEOPLE’S TRADES. 36. The Writer Who is Not a Writer. 37. Racial Intolerance. 38. Preface to L. Caglioti’s I due volti della chimica (The. Two Faces of Chemistry). 39. We See No Other Adam in the Neighbourhood. 40. Horseshoe Nails. 41. Let’s See How Much has Come True. 42. Our First Ancestors were Not Animals. 43. Collectors of Torments. 44. Brute Force. 45. Note to Franz Kafka’s The Trial. 46. Asymmetry and Life. 47. Preface to Jews in Turin. 48. Itinerary of a Jewish Writer. 49. With the Key of Science. 50. Preface to The Jews of Eastern Europe. 51. What was it that Burned Up in Space?. 52. The Plague has No Frontiers. 53. The Community of Venice and its Ancient Cemetery. 54. The Philosopher-Engineer and his Forbidden Dreams. 55. Guest of Captain Nemo. Index of Names.

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Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to be Jewish? What is an anti-Semite? Why does the enigmatic identity of the men who founded the first monotheistic religion arouse such passions? We need to return to the Jewish question.Trade Review"If, as Joyce wrote, history is a nightmare from which we are trying to awake, this is even truer of the 'Jewish question' – a nightmare made up of myths and prejudice leading to anti-Semitism and to ancient but persistent wars of religion, such as those opposing Arabs and Israelis. By adopting a French focus when revisiting these issues as treated by Marx, Freud, Sartre and Arendt, Roudinesco brilliantly cleans the picture of its fog of obfuscation. Thanks to her intimate knowledge of the facts and actors, we are shown a path to a new understanding; hopefully, it will lead to an awakening." Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania "Élisabeth Roudinesco probes the toxic topic of Jew-hatred, ancient, mediaeval and newer, and of modern political anti-Semitism, trying to draw a clear distinction between them; adding to this, she analyses the recent phenomenon – of a totally different character – of anti-Zionism and/or the legitimate criticism of the State of Israel and its politics. The outcome is courageous and timely in its argument for universal and enlightened jewishness; it also offers a highly rich and diverse reading which is full of compelling twists and unexpected, refreshing deliberations." Idith Zertal, University of BaselTable of ContentsAcknowledgements vii Introduction 1 1 Our First Parents 6 2 The Shadow of the Camps and the Smoke of the Ovens 26 3 Promised Land, Conquered Land 49 4 Universal Jew, Territorial Jew 68 5 Genocide between Memory and Negation 93 6 A Great and Destructive Madness 124 7 Inquisitorial Figures 151 Notes 186 Index 232

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Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to be Jewish? What is an anti-Semite? Why does the enigmatic identity of the men who founded the first monotheistic religion arouse such passions? We need to return to the Jewish question.Trade Review"If, as Joyce wrote, history is a nightmare from which we are trying to awake, this is even truer of the 'Jewish question' – a nightmare made up of myths and prejudice leading to anti-Semitism and to ancient but persistent wars of religion, such as those opposing Arabs and Israelis. By adopting a French focus when revisiting these issues as treated by Marx, Freud, Sartre and Arendt, Roudinesco brilliantly cleans the picture of its fog of obfuscation. Thanks to her intimate knowledge of the facts and actors, we are shown a path to a new understanding; hopefully, it will lead to an awakening." Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania "Élisabeth Roudinesco probes the toxic topic of Jew-hatred, ancient, mediaeval and newer, and of modern political anti-Semitism, trying to draw a clear distinction between them; adding to this, she analyses the recent phenomenon – of a totally different character – of anti-Zionism and/or the legitimate criticism of the State of Israel and its politics. The outcome is courageous and timely in its argument for universal and enlightened jewishness; it also offers a highly rich and diverse reading which is full of compelling twists and unexpected, refreshing deliberations." Idith Zertal, University of BaselTable of ContentsAcknowledgements vii Introduction 1 1 Our First Parents 6 2 The Shadow of the Camps and the Smoke of the Ovens 26 3 Promised Land, Conquered Land 49 4 Universal Jew, Territorial Jew 68 5 Genocide between Memory and Negation 93 6 A Great and Destructive Madness 124 7 Inquisitorial Figures 151 Notes 186 Index 232

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

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Book SynopsisI lived the same life as everyone else, the life of ordinary people, the masses. Sitting in a prison cell in the autumn of 1944, the German author Hans Fallada sums up his life under the National Socialist dictatorship, the time of inward emigration. Under conditions of close confinement, in constant fear of discovery, he writes himself free from the nightmare of the Nazi years. He records his thoughts about spying and denunciation, about the threat to his livelihood and his literary work and about the fate of many friends and contemporaries. The confessional mode did not come naturally to Fallada, but in the mental and emotional distress of 1944, self-reflection became a survival strategy. Fallada's frank and sometimes provocative memoirs were thought for many years to have been lost. They are published here for the first time.Trade Review"This is certainly a revelatory book. As its author intended, it reveals much about the pernicious nature of Nazi rule during the Third Reich; the compromises demanded, the tribulations endured, the lives ruined. At one point Fallada laments: “Oh, how they bled us dry! How they robbed us of every joy and happiness, every smile, every friendship! Yet it also reveals something that its author did not intend, and that is Fallada’s own deeply flawed character."The Financial Times"An outspoken memoir of life under the Nazis written from a prison cell... a fascinating document"The Independent"Exquisite and troubling... one of the most powerful accounts of life in the Third Reich."The Economist"This is a remarkable book"The Scotsman""Colourful and anecdotal reflections of life under Hitler. Fallada's diary turns out to be not a record of quotidian events inside but reminiscences of scrapes, challenges and day-to-day reality outside, from the advent of Nazi misrule to the final stages of the war."The Sunday Herald"Fallada, one of Germany's most well-regarded writers of the 20th century, tells the tale of a writer and his friends, and how the swell of Nazism means there's always a listening ear outside the door - except this time he's telling his own story"South China Morning Post"A Stranger in My Own Country is an engrossing book that reads more like a novel than a memoir.”Nomadic Press"His prison diary is a heartfelt diatribe against the nazis, revealing a highly compromised man riddled with contradictions and ambiguity. In reading it, the high price Fallada paid for living out the war in his homeland is all too clear."Morning Star"A rare account of living close to an edge that you can’t quite locate in the darkness.""A rare account of living close to an edge that you can’t quite locate in the darkness."Tribune"Vivid"Sydney Morning Herald“Fallada’s strength as a diarist is to convert his unsteady, sometimes ethically questionable existence into disciplined, objective narrative. His life and writings reflect the endless need to challenge authoritarianism in both family and society.”The Tablet"This long-awaited publication will... greatly increase our knowledge of an author whose reputation has never been completely eclipsed in Germany, and who is now being rediscovered in Britain, the USA, France, and Italy. All these countries have recently published his last, posthumously published novel [Alone in Berlin], thus demonstrating his rare ability to attract the common and the literary reader alike."Modern Language Review"Recording his experiences of Nazi Germany while confined in an asylum in 1944, Hans Fallada wrote in real life what Günter Grass later wrote in fiction. An intriguing literary testament, expertly edited by two leading Fallada scholars, and skilfully translated by Allan Blunden."Geoff Wilkes, The University of Queensland ‘Fallada’s strengths as a novelist permeate his narrative. He is a master of the brief character sketch, bringing friend and foe to life on the page with economy and wit.’ The Australian ‘This wonderful volume, painstakingly transcribed from his microscopic handwriting by his gifted biographer, Jenny Williams, and her fellow Fallada scholar and archivist, the poet Sabine Lange, is a conversational memoir: blunt, whimsical, outrageous, anecdotal and often hilarious. Allan Blunden’s translation conveys the exasperated humour.’ Irish Times ‘An absorbing evocation of a troubled, all-too-human life under an inhuman tyranny.’ Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsIntroduction vi The 1944 Prison Diary 1 A despatch from the house of the dead. Afterword 219 The genesis of the Prison Diary manuscript 233 Chronology 236 Notes 239 Index 268

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

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Book SynopsisIn Fight or Pay, Desmond Morton turns his eye to the stories of those who paid in lieu of fighting – the wives, mothers, and families left behind when soldiers went to war.Trade ReviewDesmond Morton has written a work that helps to fill a void of information about a turbulent period in our history. It will, I am sure, become a key reference work for those studying the economic and social aspects of the home front during the Great War. -- Steven Dieter, Office of Air Force Heritage and History historian * The Globe and Mail *Well-argued and finely written, especially given its detailed social and financial policy subject matter, Fight or Pay underscores two little-known truths about the war. The conflict cost lives at home as well as abroad, and Canada's social security net owes as much to the Great War as it does to the Great Depression. -- Brian Bethune * Macleans, November 2004 *Fight or Pay is a beautifully written book about the history of a society and its government in wartime. Not only does Morton shed fascinating light on the topic of soldiers’ dependants, but he reveals the much broader implications for the study of gender, class, state power, and race. -- Jonathan Vance, author of Death So Noble: Memory, Meaning, and the First World WarFight or Pay is a surprisingly gripping story of Canadian hipocrisy, selfishness, officiousness and stoical endurance. This is a very professional piece of work, covering an area of interest that may seem limited. But Desmond Morton has produced a book that is eminently readable, for anyone with the slightest curiosity about Canada’s past. Its appeal is rooted in his lively writing, in the curiosity that drove his research and the industry that satisfied it — and, despite his consistent scholarly professionalism, an animating dose of healthy and well-metered anger at a government that valued appearance over reality and fiscal caution over humanity. -- Suanne Kelman, School of Journalism, Ryerson University * Literary Review of Canada, June 2005 *Desmond Morton has once again demonstrated his talent for weaving national narrative in this finely crafted account of the experience of soldiers’ families during the First World War. Morton’s extensive understanding of the war immeasurably enriches his treatment of soldiers and civilians alike in Fight or Pay: Soldiers’ Families in the Great War Uncovering what happened is the first step to understanding the historical experience of the family in the First World War, and with Fight or Pay, Desmond Morton has built a marvelous foundation. -- Kori Street, Mount Royal College * Canadian Historical Review, December 2005 *Fight or Pay is an elegantly written work of penetrating analysis that showcases the author’s expansive knowledge of Canada’s First World War experience. Part military, social, family and administrative history, it is a groundbreaking addition to the growing literature of Canada’s home-front history and will undoubtedly inspire further historical inquiry. -- Serge Marc Durflinger, University of Ottawa * Canadian Institute of International Affairs, Spring 2006 *Table of ContentsPreface1 War and Families2 Pay and Allowances3 The Patriotic Fund4 Choices and Responsibilities5 Homecomings6 Grumbling and Complaining7 Victory for Whom?8 Never AgainAppendixNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisCommander A.F.C. Layard, RN, wrote almost daily in his diary from 1913 until 1947. The pivotal 1943-45 years of this edited volume offer an extraordinarily full and honest chronicle, revealing Layard’s preoccupations, both with the daily details and with the strain and responsibility of wartime command at sea.Trade ReviewIf there was one book I wish I had had a chance to read early in my career, this is it. Commanding Canadians is a gripping history of a small part of the Battle of the Atlantic, a fascinating picture of the realities of life at sea and ashore throught extended periods of operations and, most valuably, a wonderful case study of leadership. -- Robert H. Thomas * Canadian Naval Review, vol. 2, no. 2, Summer 2006 *Michael Whitby writes that readers of Layard's wartime diary 'will find a very human story of a man struggling to maintain his way in difficult circumstances and under enormous pressures. His success marks a triumph of the human spirit over adversity, and deserves to be known.' Absolutely. -- Ken Reynolds, Directorate of History and Heritage, Department of National Defense * H-Net *Commanding Canadians is an important new contribution to the history of the Battle of the Atlantic ... Whitby has edited this important diary very well, and it can therefore be recommended to all ... -- William Glover * International Journal of Maritime History, vol. XVIII, no.1 *Table of ContentsPrologue: Like Cutting ButterIntroduction: An Officer and His Diary1 One Does Get Tired of Them, September-December 19432 Shaking Down, January-March 19443 Overseas, March-May 19444 The Great Endeavour, May-July 19445 Exasperation Inshore, July-October 19446 Deep Open Waters, October-December 19447 Wreck to Wreck, Contact to Contact, January-March 19458 Oasis of Comfort and Happiness, March-May 1945Epilogue: RespiteAppendicesNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisIn the middle of the most destructive conflict in human history, almost 40,000 Germans civilians and prisoners of war were detained in internment and work camps across Canada. Five internment camps were located on the southern shores of the St. Lawrence River in the province of Quebec: at Farnham, Grande Ligne, Île-aux-Noix, Sherbrooke, and Sorel.Prisoners of the Home Front details the organization and day-to-day affairs of these internment camps and reveals the experience of their inmates. Martin Auger shows how internment imposed psychological and physical strain in the form of restricted mobility, sexual deprivation, social alienation, and lack of physical comfort. In response, Canadian authorities introduced labour projects and education programs to uphold morale, thwart internal turmoil, and prevent escapes. These initiatives were also intended to expose prisoners to the values of a democratic society and prepare them for postwar reintegration.Auger conclTrade ReviewThe memoir material provides an ideal counterpoint to the basic history gleaned from the government sources, and the author weaves an excellent narrative from the various strands involved. …In his recommendation of this book, my colleague Kent Fedorowich describes it as ‘the benchmark for the future study of Canada’s … history as a captor power during the Second World War’. I would go further and say that in several respects it sets benchmarks for all future regional and local studies of prisoners of war and internees, be they in Canada or elsewhere. -- Bob Moore, University of Sheffield * War in History, Issue 14-4 *The issue of the labour and re-education camps set up during World War II has been widely addressed over the last sixty years, but few works offer a strictly Canadian point of view, and even fewer focus on Quebec. Thus, Martin F. Auger’s work is most welcome. He describes the living conditions to which prisoners, mostly Germans and Italians, were subjected for several years, and explains the various reasons that drove Canadian authorities to set up such labour camps. … In short, Auger’s work is indispensable for anyone interested in Canada’s national war effort during the Second World War. -- Charles Létourneau * Canadian Army Journal, Vol.10.1 *Auger has written a readable narrative that uses insightful analysis grounded in primary research from a regional perspective. The book is highly recommended for general and specialist readers. -- Chris Madsen * International History Review XXVIII, 4 *Prisoners on the Home Front sheds some much needed light on an under-represented topic in Second World War historiography. … This book has forged a new path for the study of Canadian internment camps during the Second World War. -- A.C. * Canadian Military History, Spring 2008 *Table of ContentsForeword / Jeffrey A. KeshenPreface1 A History of Internment2 Organizing and Developing Southern Quebec's Internment Operation3 Life behind Barbed Wire4 Labour Projects5 Educational Programs6 Canada’s Internment Experience: A Home Front VictoryAppendixNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisIlluminates the challenges faced by Canada’s war-blinded veterans and outlines the history of the Sir Arthur Pearson Association of War Blinded, an advocacy group for all Canadian veterans and blind citizens.Trade ReviewVeterans with a Vision is a must read for historians interested in the social impact of war on Canadian society. It is well written, thoroughly researched, soundly organized, and poignantly relevant as Canada prepares to rehabilitate a new generation of veterans in the post-Afghanistan era. -- Alex Souchen, University of Western Ontario * Canadian Military History Journal *Durflinger successfully illustrates the important contributions made by war blinded veterans to the creation of national institutions and celebrates the men who achieved personal success in spite of their disability. In spite of minor reservations, Veterans with a Vision makes important contributions to the field of veterans’ studies, the development of the Canadian state, and will be a useful work for scholars of twentieth century Canada. -- Brian MacDowall, York University * Historire sociale - Social History, Vol. XLV, No 89 *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1 Canada’s First War Blinded, 1899-19182 The Sir Arthur Pearson Club of War Blinded Soldiers and Sailors, 1919-293 The Years of Struggle, 1930-394 Rehabilitating the Blinded Casualties of the Second World War, 1939-505 Older and Wiser: Canada’s War Blinded in the Aftermath of War, 1945-706 Twilight, 1971-2002ConclusionNotesSelect BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisIn 1951, Canada sent troops to western Europe to support its NATO allies. The brigade helped Canada establish its international status. In private, however, Canadian officials and military leaders expressed grave doubts about NATO's strategies and operational plans. Despite these reservations, they sent military families overseas and implemented personnel policies that permanently changed the distribution of the defence budget and the character of the Canadian Army.By exposing the hidden agendas that pushed NATO's members in different directions even as they presented a united front, this original account of the evolution of the Canadian Army from a small training cadre to a truly national force offers a new perspective on military policy and diplomacy in the Cold War era.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 The "German Problem" and Canada's Fight for an Independent Voice,1919-462 Canada's Vision for Germany and Europe, 1946-493 Canada and the Federal Republic of Germany, 1949-644 The Troop Experience in Germany, 1951-645 The Regular Force Expands and Represents Canada, 1949-646 The Strategy of Deterrence and Plans for the Canadian Brigade, 1948-64ConclusionNotes; Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisThe senior Canadian officers of the Second World War learned how to fight a war on the job; for all of them, the weight of command was a burden to be borne.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 THE GENERALSMajor-General Bert HoffmeisterMajor-General George KitchingMajor-General Harry F.G. LetsonMajor-General Bruce Matthews2 THE FIGHTERSBrigadier H.P. Bell-IrvingLieutenant-Colonel Peter BennettMajor-General M.P. BogertColonel J. Allan (“Ding”) CalderMajor-General W.J. MegillLieutenant-General Robert MoncelMajor-General Roger RowleyMajor-General J. Desmond B. SmithMajor-General James TedlieLieutenant-General Henri TellierMajor-General C.B. WareBrigadier-General Denis Whitaker3 THE STAFFBrigadier G. Edward BeamentLieutenant-General William A.B. AndersonBrigadier George PangmanMajor Giles PerodeauFinlay Angus MorrisonMajor-General N. Elliot RodgerLieutenant-General Geoffrey WalshMajor-General Robert P. RothschildLieutenant-General S.F. ClarkLieutenant-Colonel J. Douglas CrashleyJohn W.H. BassettHarold MorrisonColonel H.O. MoranLieutenant-Colonel E.T. WinslowMajor-General H.A. “Sparky” SparlingColonel Robert RaymontBrigadier John D. (Jack) ChristianColonel Ernest A. CôtéLieutenant-Colonel Donald MingayBrigadier P.A. Stanley ToddColonel W. Clement DickBrigadier-General R.T. BennettBrigadier Frank LaceBrigadier Beverley MatthewsBrigadier William ZieglerRt. Hon. J.W. PickersgillLieutenant-Colonel Trumball Warren4 THE FAMILIESMrs. Margaret PalmerPeter CrerarGroup Captain Victor C.H. StuartMarguerite Stuart ShortreedDr. Mary BurnsJoseph PopeMajor W.H. PopeMrs. Simonne Pope FletcherTony FosterPeter HertzbergThea Hertzberg GrayMrs. Dagmar Hertzberg NationMrs. Sherwood LettGeorge MontagueP.K. (Patricia Katherine) PageMrs. Helen Price PerodeauMrs. Mary PlowMr. Justice Joseph PottsMrs. Betty SpryMalcolm and Atholl Sutherland-BrownW.F.R. SteinColonel Malcolm TurnerMajor Fred VokesHarvie WalfordPeter WorthingtonMrs. Clara “Larry” WorthingtonWilliam YoungAppendicesList of Canadian Generals of the Second World WarTable of Army Ranks and ResponsibilitiesSelected ReadingsIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book illustrates not only the challenges many junior officers faced during the Second World War, it also points to the enduring problem of living up to the image of an ideal middle-class male.Trade ReviewHayes’s deep research and extensive knowledge on the topic provides a nuanced appraisal of Canadian officers and their diverse wartime experiences. -- Matthew Barrett, Canadian War Museum * H-Net *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Foundations2 Mobilization3 Selection4 Training5 The Fighting Begins6 Taking Stock7 Negotiating Battle8 Last DaysConclusionNotes; Selected Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisMaking the Best of It examines the ways in which gender and other identities intersected to shape the experiences of female Canadians and Newfoundlanders during the Second World War.Trade Review"[T]his is a very useful study, one in which the authors make full use of British and American research, and the bibliography alone will make it invaluable." -- J.L. Granatstein * CHOICE Connect *"This collection [of essays] importantly brings our attention to voices and perspectives that have excluded from World War II Canadian history and, in doing so, directs us to think further about areas that remain to be explored." -- Carol Acton, University of Waterloo * University of Toronto Quarterly *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Community, Memory, and Historical Precedent / Sarah Glassford and Amy ShawPart 1: Women, Children, and the War1 The Small Spaces of Childhood: Learning How to Feel in Atlantic Canada, 1939–45 / Barbara Lorenzkowski2 Fostering Friendships: Canadian Girlhood and the Evacuation of British Children to Canada / Claire L. Halstead3 Casualties of War: Children, Mothers, and Wartime Day Nurseries / Lisa Pasolli4 Civic Identities in Conflict: Montreal's Anglophone and Francophone Private School Girls / Lisa MoorePart 2: Women and the War at Home5 “A Token Jew Everywhere”: Canadian Jewish Women on the Home Front / Jennifer Shaw6 Shopping to Win the War: Female Consumers and Canada’s Home Front / Graham Broad7 Mrs. Consumer Goes to War: The Consumer Branch and Economic Policy Making / Joseph TohillPart 3: Women and Overseas Humanitarian Work8 Responding to “War’s Havoc”: The Relief Work of Mennonite Women / Marlene Epp9 “It Keeps Our Spirits Up”: Emotional Labour and Resilience in the Canadian Red Cross Corps Overseas Detachment, 1943–47 / Sarah GlassfordPart 4: Women in Wartime Nursing, Paid War Work, and the Armed Forces10 “War Comes to Labrador”: Nursing on the Home Front / Heidi Coombs11 They Died so That Men May Fight: Depictions of Female Military War Dead / Sarah Hogenbirk12 “Keep Your Mind on Your Job”: Women Workers, Beauty Culture, and Dangerous Bodies in the Wartime Industrial Workplace / Sarah Van VugtConclusion: Making the Best of It / Sarah Glassford and Amy ShawSelected Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisTo the Tashkent Station brilliantly reconstructs the evacuation of over sixteen million Soviet civilians in one of the most dramatic episodes of World War II.Trade ReviewManley's book is an impressive achievement. Through work in St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Tashkent archives, along with the use of memoir and periodical sources, she effectively documents... Soviet society and the Soviet state as revealed in a moment of crisis.... She produces a nuanced understanding of how evacuation simultaneously exposed and healed fissures within and between various strata of the population in its leaders. -- Jeff Sahadeo * Slavic Review *This book is one of the most significant recent contributions to the history of the Soviet Union in the Second World War. A nuanced, complex, and confident interpretation of a rich and diverse source base, it is much more than just a careful study of... the Soviet evacuation of institutions, factories, and human beings, to rescue them from the German invasion of 1941. It is also a microstudy of Soviet society in the 1940s more generally. -- Mark Edele * Journal of Modern History *

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Book SynopsisThe Pacific War narrative of Japan''s defeat that was established after 1945 started with the attack on Pearl Harbor, detailed the U.S. island-hopping campaigns across the Western Pacific, and culminated in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan''s capitulation, and its recasting as the western shore of an American ocean. But in the decades leading up to World War II and over the course of the conflict, Japan's leaders and citizens were as deeply concerned about continental Asiaand the Soviet Union, in particularas they were about the Pacific theater and the United States. In Imperial Eclipse, Yukiko Koshiro reassesses the role that Eurasia played in Japan's diplomatic and military thinking from the turn of the twentieth century to the end of the war.Through unprecedented archival research, Koshiro has located documents and reports expunged from the files of the Japanese Cabinet, ministries of Foreign Affairs and War, and Imperial Headquarters, allowing her to rTrade Review...Imperial Eclipse presents a bold interpretation of Japanese strategic thinking prior to the conclusion of World War II and is a book that should be read by any scholar interested in Japanese military history and foreign policy. Most importantly, this book provides us with an image of what Japan as a 'normal nation' could look like at a time when Japanese foreign policy is at a major turning point. -- Reo Matsuzaki * The Journal of Northeast Asian History *"I highly recommended Imperial Eclipse to all serious students of World War II. Its use of Japanese sources is exemplary and helps remedy a conspicuous shortage of works focused on Japanese decision-making and the diverse perspectives present in its military and political leadership. Instructors teaching classes on the war in Asiathe end of WWIIand the beginning of the Cold War will also find this book important for its insight into the neglected Japanese view of events in Asia. "—Tyler Bramford * H-War *In Imperial Eclipse Yukiko Koshiro attempts to change the interpretative axis on which historians and the wider public have understood the end of World War II and the postwar world that it helped create. The effort requires a good deal of confidence, not only because of the enormous scope of the undertaking, but also because the attempt asserts that historical scholarship, past and present, has got it basically wrong. Koshiro attempts to provide a broader base for her conclusions and in this she contributes to the attempt to revitalise the old diplomatic history into its new incarnation as international history. This merging of social history with political-diplomatic is one of this study's most creative and engaging features. -- Michael Lewis * Asian Studies Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction. The World of Japan's Eurasian-Pacific WarPart I. The Place of Russia in Prewar Japan1. Communist Ideology and Alliance with the Soviet Union Allures of Utopia The Soviet Union as Radical Hope Alliance with the Soviet Union2. Culture and Race: Russians in the Japanese Empire Americans in Japan: The Most Isolated Russians in Japan: The Blue-eyed Neighbors Russians in Japan's Pan-AsianismPart II. Future of East Asia after the Japanese Empire3. Mao's Communist Revolution: Who Will Rule China? Japan's China Studies and the CCP Japanese Military Appraisal of CCP Propaganda Moscow-Yan'an Dissonance Toward the Recognition of Yan’an4. International Rivalry over Divided Korea: Who to Replace Japan? Early War Years: Assessing Communist Influences from Abroad Understanding International Ambitions for Korea: The View from 1944Part III. Ending the War and Beyond5. Cold War Rising: Observing US-Soviet Dissonance Diplomatic Charades with the Soviet Union Japanese Peace Feelers and the United States Moscow-Washington Dissonance and Competing Visions for a Postwar World China Intrigue6. Military Showdown: Ending the War Without Two-Front Battles The Improbability of Two-Front Attacks Korean Gambit7. Japan’s Surrender: Views of the Nation From "Mokusatsu" to Surrender: The Final Twenty Days of Japan’s War Soviet Entry into the War and the American Use of the Atomic Bombs Collapse of Japan’s Continental EmpirePart IV. Inventing Japan’s War: Eurasian Eclipse8. Memories and Narratives of Japan’s War Views of the War’s End and Beyond Writing a History of Japan’s WarEpilogue. Toward a New Understanding of Japan’s Eurasian-Pacific WarAppendix Index

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Book SynopsisAndrew Johnstone tells the story of how internationalist Americans worked between 1938 and 1941 to convince the U.S. government and the American public of the need to stem the rising global tide of fascist aggression.Trade ReviewAgainst Immediate Evil is an important contribution to the historiography of the formation of the foundations of American foreign policy as the United States asserted its role in the mid-twentieth century as not just a great power, but as an emerging global superpower.... Andrew Johnstone's book is a concise and readable chronological narrative of the development of the American internationalist before the entrance of the United States in the Second World War. -- Grant Harward * H-War *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Four Freedoms1. The Sino-Japanese War and the American Committee for Non-Participation in Japanese Aggression2. The Coming of War and the American Union for Concerted Peace Efforts3. The Phony War and the Non-Partisan Committee for Peace through Revision of the Neutrality Law4. Blitzkrieg and the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies5. The Destroyer-Bases Agreement and the Century Group6. Maximum Aid and the Battle for Lend-Lease7. Deliver the Goods and Fight for Freedom8. The Battle of the Atlantic from Barbarossa to Pearl HarborEpilogue: War and BeyondNotes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis troubling book offers a striking illustration of how history can be used and abused—how a gifted individual can create their own self-serving version of the past.Trade ReviewIn a careful, tactical process, Mearsheimer slowly released each component to an argument that, when revealed in the second-to-last chapter, is quite damning for Liddell Hart. * Midwest book review *

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Book SynopsisBartov provides a critical analysis of various recent ways to understand the genocidal policies of the Nazi regime and the reconstruction of German and Jewish identities in the wake of World War II.Trade ReviewBartov has been in the forefront of historians who have debunked the myth of the innocent, professional, correct German Wehrmacht. He demonstrates that the German army in Russia violated all norms governing the rules of war. * International History Review *Bartov is wise when wisdom is required, hard-hitting when scholarship is inaccurate or inadequate to truly understand the Holocaust, and open to learning from each discipline. He is firmly rooted in history, but not held back by it. He is open to new ideas and new means of presenting the Holocaust—open, but certainly not uncritical. These essays solidify his growing reputation. * The Forward *Bartov's arguments are always interesting, sometimes brilliant. His writing is elegant. He never forgets the moral implications of the scholarly arguments he dissects with such clarity and verve. -- H-German * H-Net Reviews *Bartov's book... is among the most accessible books for the layman hoping to understand the contours of the current historiography on the Holocaust.... Bartov draws nuanced but crucial distinctions between wartime atrocities generally (including those of the other combatant states of the Second World War) and those that Germany committed, especially on the Eastern Front, which were, as he shows with precision, uniquely terrible. Although Bartov is an innovative military historian, in his essay on the diaries of the great German conservative, patriot, and Jew, Victor Klemperer, he also displays a subtle grasp of social and cultural developments, especially the growing, and in the end nearly total, Nazification of German society under the Third Reich. * The Atlantic Monthly *Table of ContentsIntroductionPART ONE: War of Destruction 1. Savage War: German Warfare and Moral Choices in World War II 2. From Blitzkrieg to Total War: Image and HistoriographyPART TWO: Extermination Policies 3. Killing Space: The Final Solution as Population Policy 4. Ordering Horror: Conceptualizations of the Concentrationary Universe 5. Ordinary Monsters: Perpetrator Motivation and Monocausal ExplanationsPART THREE: Interpretations 6. Germans as Nazis: Goldhagen's Holocaust and the World 7. Jews as Germans: Victor Klemperer Bears Witness 8. Germans as Jews: Representations of Absence in Postwar GermanyAbbreviations Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisBarnhart examines the events leading up to World War II in the context of Japan's quest for economic security.Trade Review"A first-rate, original account of Japan's road to war, fortified with documentation largely unavailable in English. Michael A. Barnhart's unique perspective is sure to enrich our understanding of the 1930s and of the origins of the Pacific War."—Akira IriyeTable of ContentsIntroduction1. The Rise of Autarky in Japanese Strategic Planning2. International Law and Stove-Pipe Hats3. Merging the Drives for Autarky and Reform4. The Road to Ruin: Japan Begins the China Incident5. Bitter Mortgage: The Economic Consequences of the China Incident6. To Defend the Open Door7. Swastika and Red Star: The Imperial Army's Economic and Strategic Dilemmas of 19398. Caretakers and the Quest for Autarky: Marking Time 1489. The Navy's Price: Japan Commences the Southward Advance10. To Arm and Appease11. Unsettled Details: The Debate over the Southward Advance12. Soft Words and Big Sticks13. A Final Wager: Japan Consummates the Southward Advance14. The Pacific WarBibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn this revised and expanded edition, Richard Rubenstein returns to old questions and addresses new issues with the same passion and spirit that characterized his original work.Trade ReviewAll of the essays in this edition are passionate and provocative and some are brilliant. As the summation of decades of burningly honest inquiry into some of the most fundamental issues in modern history, this work will remain one of the seminal books of this generation. Australian Jewish TimesTable of ContentsPreface Preface to the first editionPart I. The Encounter of Christian and JewChapter 1. The Dean and the Chosen People Chapter 2. Person and Myth in the Judeo-Christian Encounter Chapter 3. Religion and the Origins of the Death Camps: A Psychoanalytic InterpretationChapter 4. The Auschwitz Convent Controversy Part II. The Meaning of the HolocaustChapter 5. The Unmastered Trauma: Interpreting the HolocaustChapter 6. Modernization and the Politics of Extermination: Genocide in the Historical ContextChapter 7. Covenant, Holocaust, and Intifada Part III. Theology and Contemporary JudaismChapter 8. Covenant and Divinity: The Holocaust and the Problematics of Religious Faith, Part 1Chapter 9. Covenant and Divinity: The Holocaust and the Problematics of Religious Faith, Part 1Chapter 10. The Rebirth of Israel in Contemporary Jewish TheologyChapter 11. War, Zionism, and Sacred Space Chapter 12. The Meaning of Torah in Contemporary Jewish TheologyChapter 13. Death-of-God Theology and Judaism Chapter 14. Jews, Israel, and Liberation Theology Chapter 15. Muslims, Jews, and the Western World: A Jewish ViewChapter 16. God after the Death of God Notes Acknowledgements Index

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Book SynopsisAgainst this background, Cleansing the Fatherland sends a stark message that is difficult to ignore.Trade ReviewThanks to the work of Aly and his associates, those areas of medical criminality that escaped the retribution the Allies visited on the more obviously ghoulish experimenters... have at long last come out of the shadows. -- Michael Burleigh Times Higher Education Supplement The gruesome medical experiments that Cleansing the Fatherland describes... were exposed during the Nuremberg doctors trials of 1946-47. But the book also contains annotated selections from the diaries of German anatomist Hermann Voss [which] offer a long look into the mind of a German medical scientist who by 1964 was widely regarded as 'the most influential and respected anatomist in East Germany' even though he had spent the war years dissecting unmistakably murdered bodies. Lingua Franca

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Book SynopsisIn this text the author provides a history of biomedical research on human subjects in the US from 1890 to 1940. She offers accounts of experiments conducted on both healthy and unhealthy adults and children including the yellow fever experiments and "dental drill" experiments on insane patient.Trade ReviewLederer's writing is crisp and clear, her historical documentation is exhaustive, and her social commentary persuasive. This book is an important addition to the growing literature on the history of human experimentation and medical research. New England Journal of Medicine Essential reading for anyone concerned with clinical research public policy and attitudes. -- Norman M. Goldfarb Journal of Clinical Research Best Practices 2006Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgments IntroductionChapter 1. "The Sacred Cord": Doctors, Patients, and Medical ResearchChapter 2. The Charge of Human VivisectionChapter 3. The American Medical Association and the Defense of ResearchChapter 4. Rules for Research: Human Experimentation and the AMA Code of EthicsChapter 5. "Your Dog and Your Baby": The Continuing Campaign Against Human VivisectionChapter 6. Heroes and Martyrs: Human Experimentation in an Age of Medical ProgressEpilogueAppendixNotesBibliographic EssayIndex

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Book SynopsisAt the beginning of the Second World War there was no thought of delivering planes by air across the Atlantic. It was assumed to be too costly and too dangerous, especially in winter. Despite this initial reluctance, between the fall of 1940 and the spring of 1945, Royal Air Force Ferry Command's mixed civilian and military crews flew almost ten thousand aircraft, mainly American-built, to operational squadrons overseas. In Ocean Bridge Carl Christie provides the first full account of the genesis, history, and importance of Ferry Command.From the pioneer transatlantic flights of the interwar period and the early attempts to initiate regular commercial service, Christie traces London's decision to have aircraft, supplies, and passengers delivered across the Atlantic Ocean from Canada and the United States. Under the inspired leadership of a handful of Imperial Airways' captain-navigators, a group of civilian airmen from Britain, Canada, and the United States undertookTrade Review'There are scores of stories within the narrative, made vivid through the querying of those who took part. You read about their motives, fears, survivals and casualties...A fascinating special history.' -- Douglas Fisher Legion 'This masterly piece of research will surely become the standard reference on the subject.' Aeroplane Monthly 'Well bound and printed, with 50 excellent black and white photos, this book will find a ready home on the shelf of anyone interested in military flying.' The Evening Telegram, St John's Newfoundland 'Christie has mastered a large body of documentation and interviews to write this historical account. Despite the enormous wealth of detail and a cast of thousands, he has managed to produce a clear narrative of interest to anyone who knows how challenging the Atlantic can be.' -- Sidney Allinson The Northern Mariner

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Book SynopsisSince the end of World War II, leaders of the Jehovah's Witness movement in both Germany and elsewhere have steadfastly argued that Witnesses were united in their opposition to Nazism and did not collude with the Third Reich. Documents have been uncovered, however, that prove otherwise. Using materials from Witness archives, the U.S. State Department, Nazi files, and other sources, M. James Penton demonstrates that while many ordinary German Witnesses were brave in their opposition to Nazism, their leaders were quite prepared to support the Hitler government.Penton begins his study with a close reading of the "Declaration of Facts" released by the Witnesses at a Berlin convention in June 1933. Witness leaders have called the document a protest against Nazi persecution, however closer examination shows it contained bitter attacks on Great Britain and the United States - jointly referred to as "the greatest and most oppressive empire on earth" - the League of Nations, big businTrade Review"For many years our organization has put forth an unselfish and persistent effort to do good to the people. Our American brethren have greatly assisted in the work in Germany, and with money freely contributed, and that at a time when all Germany was in dire distress. Now because it appears that Germany may soon be free from oppression and that the people may be lifted up, Satan, the great enemy, puts forth his endeavours to destroy that benevolent work in this land." Jehovah's Witness "Declaration of Facts," Berlin, 1933"

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

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Book SynopsisIn this groundbreaking work, David Raub Snyder offers a nuanced investigation into the German army's prosecution and punishment of sex offenders during the Second World War. In so doing, Snyder restores balance to the literature regarding the military administration of justice under Hitler and to the historiography of sexuality and the Third Reich.

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