Second World War Books

Book SynopsisTells the story of the Unitarian Service Committee, an organization of Americans who rescued European refugees during World War II.Trade Review"A fascinating book. . . . In this true-life tale of intrigue, danger, courage, and dedication the reader will encounter the names of many eminent people whose lives were saved by the USC."—Marcia Weiss Posner, Jewish Book World"Complementing recent historiography concentrated on the actions of relief workers in Displaced Person Camps after the war, Rescue & Flight is valuable, focused research on the important and relatively few efforts undertaken before and during the war to save lives."—Michal Shapira, Journal of Interdisciplinary History"Subak delivers well her intent to carve a respectable place for these workers' legacy. It is a must-read for Unitarians and scholars of contemporary religious history and WWII. Professors can also include it in their recommended reading lists."—Mark Chung Hearn, Religious Studies Review"This volume is not only a valuable contribution to Holocaust studies; with its blend of factual information, tensions, and intrigues, it is a fascinating read."—Suzanne Vromen, Holocaust and Genocide StudiesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Introduction 1. Prague, 1939 2. Marseille and Lisbon, 19403. Lisbon and Marseille, 1940 4. Marseille, 1941 5. Marseille, 1942 6. Geneva, Lisbon, and Marseille, 1943 7. New York, Lisbon, Paris, and Prague, 1944-45 Conclusion Afterword by William F. Schulz Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisLike so many soldiers of his generation, William V. Spanos was not much more than a boy when he went off to fight in World War II. Retrieving the singularity of the experience of war from the grip of official American cultural memory, Spanos recaptures something of the boy's life that he lost.Trade Review“This is the most moving memoir of World War II that I have read, and the most honest. In a style lucid, powerful, and reflective, it gives the lie to any war being ‘the good war’ and discloses the fiery terror Britain and its U.S. ally rained down on Dresden and the terrible aftermath civilians and soldiers, on both sides, had to deal with. A masterpiece of the genre.”—Daniel T. O’Hara, professor of English and humanities at Temple University and author of Visions of Global America and the Future of Critical Reading“William Spanos’s In the Neighborhood of Zero bears uncanny witness to the historical trauma of the fire-bombing of Dresden. In so doing, Spanos’s counter-memory exposes U.S. history’s efforts to replace the traumatic referent of Dresden with the narrative of America, the Redeemer Nation. Humanity in the neighborhood of zero, William Spanos reminds us, results in the becoming flesh of the state of emergency. As the witness to what cannot be articulated in historical categories, it is this figure who speaks the silences in Spanos’s unforgettable testimonial.”—Donald E. Pease, Avalon Foundation Chair of the Humanities at Dartmouth College and author of The New American Exceptionalism“Professor Spanos deeply impacted my views on literature and language when I was a student of his, but nothing prepared me for the power and emotion of this memoir. It is an amazing saga of one man’s journey through World War II—but it is also the story of the immigrant experience in America, of a soldier, of a prisoner of war, of lost innocence and the courage needed to move past that loss. Most of all, it is unforgettable.”—Marc Lawrence, writer and director of Two Weeks Notice, Music and Lyrics, and Did You Hear About the Morgans?"Written by an accomplished author, this thoughtful and unnerving memoir unearths his experience as a US GI in World War II, who was taken prisoner by the Germans and shipped to Dresden, where he witnessed the impact of the Allied firebombing of that city."—ForeWordTable of ContentsPreface1. Departure and Border Crossings: Newport, New Hampshire, to Cheltenham, England, Spring 194319442. Captivity: Disintegration in the Ardennes Forest, December 10, 1944c. January 4, 19453. Arbeitskommando: RabenauDresden, c. January 5February 12, 19454. In the Neighborhood of Zero: Dresden, February 1314, 19455. Interlude: Dresden, February 18c. April 25, 19456. Persephone and the Beast: Brux, Czechoslovakia, c. April 26May 1, 19457. Love in the Ruins: Brux, Czechoslovakia, May 213, 19458. Return: Camp Lucky Strike, Normandy, to Newport, New Hampshire, May 13June 1, 1945Coda: Main Street, Newport, New Hampshire, August 15, 1945

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Book SynopsisThe first available detailed examination of the Red Army's exploitation of US war matériel during World War II and one of the first genuine memoirs available from the Russian front. Dmitriy Loza also provides firsthand testimony on tactical command decisions, and group objectives and how they were accomplished.

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Book SynopsisExplores the political topic in Poland: Jewish-Polish relations during and after World War-II. This book examines the manner in which the relations between Poles and Jews are understood in Poland and in the Polish and Jewish diasporas.

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Book SynopsisTraces the journeys of three World War II radio broadcasters whose wartime choices became treason in Britain, Australia, and the United States. These three powerful stories provide an overview of the way in which the three nations dealt with suspected collaborators after the war. Judidth Keene also examines the significance of radio propaganda during World War II.Trade Review"Exceptionally interesting."—Martin Rubin, Washington PostTable of ContentsForeword by István DeákPrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroductionPART 1: BROADCASTING TO BRITAIN FROM WARTIME BERLINChapter 1 - Execution of the British Traitor: John AmeryChapter 2 - Life in the Amery FamilyChapter 3 - John Amery between the WarsChapter 4 - German Wartime BroadcastingChapter 5 - Amery's Reception in BritainPART II: BROADCASTING TO AUSTRALIA AND THE UNITED STATES FROM WARTIME TOKYOChapter 6 - Japanese Wartime BroadcastingChapter 7 - Tokyo's Australian Broadcaster Charles CousensChapter 8 - Allied POWs Broadcast from JapanChapter 9 - POW Families Listen to Radio TokyoChapter 10 - Iva Toguri in Wartime JapanChapter 11 - Listening to Radio Tokyo at the Pacific FrontChapter 12 - Trying an Australian Traitor: Charles CousensChapter 13 - Iva Toguri and the Trial of Tokyo RoseEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis coming-of-age story of West Point's finest opens with the arrival of the class of 1941 at the gates of academy in the spring of 1937. It follows that class - nicknamed ""Black’ 41"" for their misdeeds while at the Academy - over the course of the next four years, as they absorb the lessons that will help them become military leaders.Trade Review“A valuable portrait of a part of the evolution of the U.S. Army over the last half-century.”—Booklist“Military writer Yenne interviewed 60 members of the last West Point class to graduate before the attack on Pearl Harbor and follows their lives through the far-flung conflict that ensued. The personal tales of these new officers are intertwined and gradually lead the reader through the entire war. . . . The result is an easily read and anecdotal work for the general public.”—Library Journal "Black '41 presents quite an interesting account of how one class of West Pointers served their country in both war and peace. Military Academy graduates and all those readers interested in American military history since 1941 should find this to be an especially enjoyable read."—Roger D. Cunningham, Journal of America’s Military PastTable of ContentsPrologue: Rites of Passage1. You're in the Army Now2. Duty, Honor, West Point3. Reporting for Duty4. Infamy5. In the Philippines6. Awakening the Giant7. A Grand Strategy8. Striking Back at the Empire9. Crusade in Europe10. The Battle of the Bulge11. Victory in Europe12. The Final Victory13. Between the Wars14. Korea15. The Good Years16. Vietnam17. Retirement and ReflectionEpilogue: The BrothersAppendix A: Directory of the USMA Class of 1941Appendix B: US Army Organization in World War IIAppendix C: US Army Organization in the Korean WarAppendix D: Decorations Awarded to Members of the Class of 1941 during World War II and the Korean WarBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisPresents the most complete account to date of Soviet Jews during World War II and the Holocaust (1941-45). Reports, records, documents, and research previously unavailable in English enable Yitzhak Arad to trace the Holocaust in the German-occupied territories of the Soviet Union through three separate periods in which German political and military goals dictated the treatment of Jews.Trade Review"A significant contribution to the continuous effort of scholars to fathom the phenomenon known as 'The Holocaust.'"—Jewish Book World"[The Holocaust in the Soviet Union] is a magisterial work of great significance. Particularly for readers more familiar with the Holocaust in western Europe and occupied Poland, there is a great deal to learn from it."—Maarten Pereboom, Shofar"This book is a supreme achievement and an essential work for all Holocaust libraries."—Hallie Cantor, Association of Jewish Libraries Newsletter"A masterful synthesis. . . . This study provides a much-needed panoramic view in a field that has produced mostly regional and microstudies in the past two decades. . . . Arad's remarkable tome has both an encyclopedic as well as broad-brush quality to it that makes it required reading in Holocaust Studies."—Bradley D. Woodworth, Russian Review"Arad's book constitutes a welcome and valuable contribution to Holocaust scholarship."—Šarūnas Liekis, Journal of Baltic Studies"Yitzhak Arad has produced a notable work that is particularly valuable for its comprehensive documentation of Nazi crimes over a large geographic area."—Waitman W. Beorn, Holocaust and Genocide StudiesTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefacePart 1. The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union before World War II1. Jews in Czarist Russia2. Jews in the USSR and in the Annexed Territories between the Two World WarsPart 2. The Impact of Political and Military Developments on the Jews of Eastern Europe, September 1, 1939, to June 22, 19413. German-Soviet Relations and Geopolitical Changes in Eastern Europe 4. The Jews in the Soviet Annexed Territories 5. Preparations in Germany for the Attack on the Soviet Union and the Annihilation of the Jews Part 3. The German Attack on the Soviet Union6. Invasion under the Slogan "War on Judeo-Bolshevism" 7. Evacuation of the Soviet Population: Jews in Organized and Individual Evacuation 8. Anti-Jewish Pogroms during the Early Days of Occupation 9. The German Administration in the Occupied Territories and Its Anti-Jewish Policy Part 4. Mass Murder, First Stage: June 22, 1941, to Winter 1941-4210. Einsatzgruppen Routes of Advance and Method of Extermination 11. Reichskommissariat Ostland: Ghettos and Extermination 12. Reichskommissariat Ukraine: Ghettos and Extermination 13. Military Administration Areas: Ghettos and Extermination 14. Extermination of the Jews of Crimea 15. The German Army from "Freedom of Action" for the Einsatzgruppen to Active Collaboration in the Murders 16. Persecution of the Jews in District Galicia 17. Romania and Transnistria: Expulsion and Mass Murder Part 5. Mass Murder, Second Stage: From Spring to Late 194218. The Killing Actions in Ostland and the Grodno-Volkovysk Region (Generalbezirk Bialystok) 19. Annihilation in Reichskommissariat Ukraine 20. Mass Murder in District Galicia: Operation Reinhard 21. Annihilation in Areas under Military Administration 22. Transnistria: Life in the Shadow of Death Part 6. Mass Murder, Third Stage: From Early 1943 until the End of German Occupation23. Liquidation of the Last Ghettos in Reichskommissariat Ostland 24. Liquidation of the Last Ghettos in Reichskommissariat Ukraine 25. Survival in Transnistria 26. Action 1005 Part 7. The Murder of Specific Jewish Groups27. The Murder of Mixed Marriages, Their Offspring, and Jewish Children in Boardinghouses 28. The Murder of Jewish Prisoners of War 29. Extermination in Ostland of Jews from the Third Reich Part 8. The Robbery of Jewish Property and Cultural Values30. Confiscation and Plunder 31. The Pillage of Cultural Assets Part 9. Non-Jewish Society and Its Reaction to the Genocide of the Jews32. The Local Population 33. The Righteous among the Nations 34. Attitudes of the Churches and Clergy toward the German Administration and Its Anti-Jewish Policy Part 10. The Jews in Their Struggle for Life and in Armed Resistance35. The Individual, the Public, and Jewish Councils in a Battle for Survival 36. The Jewish Armed Underground in the Ghettos 37. The Jews in Forests and the Partisan Movement 38. Blood Account: Casualties and Survivors Conclusion Epilogue: The Holocaust and Soviet Governing Authorities Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTells the story of basketball’s survival and development during World War II and how those years profoundly affected the game’s growth after the war. Weaving stories from the court into wartime and home-front culture like a finely threaded bounce pass, Wartime Basketball sheds light on important developments in the sport’s history that has been largely overlooked.Trade Review"An important work for readers interested in the history of basketball before the NBA."—Library Journal"Wartime Basketball: The Emergence of a National Sport During World War II serves as a tremendous addition to the history of professional basketball."—Susan J. Rayl, ARETE“I love this book. The narrative comes alive with the fascinating testimonies of those involved. Along the way, Douglas Stark traces the evolution of the game during those otherwise fearsome years. This is a must-have book for both the casual basketball fan as well as the devoted hoop-o-phile.”—Charley Rosen, author of Perfectly Awful: The Philadelphia 76ers’ Horrendous and Hilarious 1972–1973 Season Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Prologue Acknowledgments Introduction: A New Game 1. America Goes to War, 1941–1942 2. The Color Line Falls, 1942–1943 3. Wartime Basketball, 1943–1944 4. The Big Man Cometh, 1944–1945 5. Looking toward the Future, 1945–1946 Epilogue: Basketball Arrives Appendix A. National Basketball League (NBL) Standings Appendix B. American Basketball League (ABL) Standings Appendix C. World Professional Basketball Tournament Results Appendix D. Red Cross Charity Matches Appendix E. Service Team Records Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“On the Home Front [is] a work of history dispassionately told, thoroughly footnoted, the literary equivalent of a nuclear explosion.”—Michael E. Long, National Geographic“On the Home Front should be read by everyone concerned with public policy and the environmental issues that dominate this postmodern world.” —William L. Lang, Western Historical Quarterly“[Gerber’s] skill in reconstructing the story of Hanford's environmental ravages has given us a book that can both alarm and instruct.” —Journal of American History“A welcome contribution to the growing historiography of the Cold War. . . The questions raised by Gerber about the role of experts and of secrecy in a democracy will hopefully attract the serious attention they so earnestly deserve.”—American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction to the New Bison Books EditionList of Maps and IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Legacy1. Beginnings: The Land and the Place2. Building the Plants: Nuts, Bolts, and Chaos3. "Tell 'Em You're from Richland": Regional Growth in the Columbia Basin4. Blowing in the Wind: The Airborne Contaminants5. "Hail Columbia": The River-borne Contaminants6. Laying Waste to the Soil: The Groundwater Contaminants7. Radiobiology: The Learning Curve8. Truth and RebirthEpilogue: Richland, Washington: September 2006NotesGlossary of Technical or Specialized Terms, Acronyms, and AbbreviationsIndex

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Book SynopsisAfter the US-Filipino remnants surrendered to a far stronger force, they unwittingly placed themselves at the mercy of a foe who considered itself unimpaired by the Geneva Convention. The already ill and hungry survivors, including many wounded, were forced to march at gunpoint many miles to a harsh and oppressive POW camp.Trade Review”For anyone reading about the war in the Pacific, this first-person account will change all statistics into human beings.”—Southwest Book Views"Dyess's plain-spoken graphic record of one of the worst atrocities of the war is a harrowing testament to both Japanese barbarism and the indomitability of the human spirit. It is a classic of its type that should not be overlooked by World War II scholars."—WW II History

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Book SynopsisAn account of the German Navy's 'pirate' fleet, the author provides detailed descriptions of each of the nine raiders, presented in chronological order based on the date each ship first sailed, revealing a significant but little-known aspect of World War II naval history.Trade Review“Provides a concise, but surprisingly comprehensive account of the raider’s operations, setting them within the larger context of war by means of clever short side-bars…An interesting book for anyone interested in the war at sea.”—The NYMAS Review“This book is not for pirate fans per se, but for those who want to see how others took the tactics pirates used and implemented them during a war. Those interested in World War II naval operations will also want to read these accounts. Each chapter includes a map showing the location of where prizes were taken and short sidebars that relate events elsewhere.”—Cindy Vallar, Pirates and Privateers

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Book SynopsisMakes a strong case for the importance of psychological warfare (psywar) in this theater, countering the usual view of fanatical resistance by Japanese units. This title examines the Imperial Army's training, the strengths and weaknesses of Japanese morale, and the Allies' attempts to exploit the Japanese military structure and ethos.Trade Review"Ironically, while Hollywood films and popular American stereotypes that persist to the present portray the Japanese soldiers as fanatics who would never surrender, the U.S. military . . . took a more realistic view and engaged in a sustained campaign to undermine the morale of the Japanese army. . . . This book helps fill a historiographic gap by studying how propaganda and psychological warfare were planned, implemented, and evaluated."—Choice"Gilmore unravels the complex structure and missions of the Allied entities involved in psywar operations. . . . Convincing."—Journal of Military History"A fresh look at a little known aspect of the Pacific War that will benefit any reader interested in the Japanese army or psychological warfare."—Military History of the West

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Book SynopsisAs the Holocaust passes out of living memory, future generations will no longer come face-to-face with Holocaust survivors. But the lessons of that terrible period in history are too important to let slip past. How Was It Possible?, edited and introduced by Peter Hayes, provides teachers and students with a comprehensive resource about the Nazi persecution of Jews.Trade Review"How Was It Possible constitutes an invaluable resource and should find its place in all libraries."—Jack Fischel, Jewish Book Council"[How Was It Possible?] should prove valuable not only to academic specialists, but to college students, their teachers, as well as for the general reader."—Jonathan Fass, Jewish Book World"A first-class anthology."—Sheldon Kirshner Journal“This brilliant compilation includes must-read primary sources, classic works of scholarship, and cutting-edge interpretations, assembled and introduced by a master historian and path-breaking Holocaust educator. An invaluable resource for students and teachers alike.”—Doris L. Bergen, author of War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust “Peter Hayes has assembled an outstanding collection of texts addressing what is undoubtedly the most important question arising from the Holocaust: How was it possible? This volume will prove invaluable to academic specialists, students, and non-expert readers who insist on the importance of approaching the subject with empirical and intellectual rigor.”—Alan E. Steinweis, professor of history and Miller Distinguished Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Vermont and author of Kristallnacht 1938 Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsForewordHarvey SchulweisIntroductionPeter HayesEditorial NoteChapter 1. The ContextIntroductionPeter Hayes[1.1] AntisemitismRobert S. Wistrich, from Antisemitism: The Longest Hatred[1.2] RacismMichael Burleigh and Wolfgang Wippermann, from The Racial State[1.3] Contradictions in Central EuropeAmos Elon, from The Pity of It All[1.4] Germany’s Turmoil, 1918–1933Klaus P. Fischer, from Nazi Germany: A New History[1.5] The Interwar Jewish HeartlandEzra Mendelsohn, from The Jews of East Central Europe Between the World WarsChapter 2. Nazism in PowerIntroductionPeter Hayes[2.1] Elite CooperationEckart Conze et al., from Das Amt und die Vergangenheit [The Office and the Past][2.2] Street-Level CoercionSebastian Haffner, from Defying Hitler[2.3] The Claims of CommunityThomas Kühne, from Belonging and Genocide[2.4] AryanizationAvraham Barkai, from From Boycott to Annihilation[2.5] Talk of “Annihilation”Ernst von Weizsäcker’s Remarks to a Swiss Diplomat, November 15, 1938, from Documents Diplomatiques Suisses“Jews, What Now?” from Das Schwarze Korps, November 24, 1938Hitler’s Reichstag Speech, January 30, 1939, from Nazism 1939–1945Chapter 3. Impediments to EscapeIntroductionPeter Hayes[3.1] The United States and Refugees, 1933–1940Richard Breitman and Alan M. Kraut, from American Refugee Policy and European Jewry, 1933–1945[3.2] France: From Hospitality to HostilityEugen Weber, from The Hollow Years[3.3] The Unreceptive British EmpireLouise London, from Whitehall and the Jews, 1933–1948[3.4] SwitzerlandIndependent Commission of Experts Switzerland—Second World War, from Switzerland, National Socialism, and the Second World War[3.5] PalestineRebecca Boehling and Uta Larkey, from Life and Loss in the Shadow of the Holocaust[3.6] Going and StayingMarion Kaplan, from Between Dignity and DespairChapter 4. The New Order in EuropeIntroductionPeter Hayes[4.1] Culling the German VolkRobert N. Proctor, from Racial Hygiene[4.2] Rearranging PopulationsGötz Aly and Suzanne Heim, from Architects of Annihilation[4.3] Racial War in the EastTimothy Snyder, from Bloodlands[4.4] Plunder, Individual and GovernmentalGötz Aly, from Hitler’s Beneficiaries[4.5] Forced LaborUlrich Herbert, from Hitler’s Foreign WorkersChapter 5. Jews in the Nazi GripIntroductionPeter Hayes[5.1] Indirect RuleIsaiah Trunk, from Judenrat[5.2] Isolation and ImpoverishmentChaim Kaplan, from Scroll of Agony[5.3] Choiceless ChoicesGordon J. Horwitz, from Ghettostadt: Lódz and the Making of a Nazi City[5.4] Leaving a RecordSamuel D. Kassow, from Who Will Write Our History?[5.5] Nothing to LoseYisrael Gutman, from The Jews of Warsaw, 1939–1943[5.6] Women Slave LaborersFelicja Karay, from Women in the Holocaust[5.7] Robbery in the NetherlandsMartin Dean, from Robbing the JewsChapter 6. The German Killers and Their MethodsIntroductionPeter Hayes[6.1] Deciding to KillMark Roseman, from The Wannsee Conference and the Final Solution[6.2] Bringing Death to JewsRichard Rhodes, from Masters of Death[6.3] Bringing Jews to DeathRaul Hilberg, from The Destruction of the European Jews[6.4] Political SoldiersEdward B. Westermann, from Hitler’s Police Battalions[6.5] The Fates of GypsiesYehuda Bauer, from Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp[6.6] Camp LaborPrimo Levi, from If This Is a Man (Survival in Auschwitz)[6.7] The Final FrenzyDaniel Blatman, from The Death MarchesChapter 7. Collaboration and Its LimitsIntroductionPeter Hayes[7.1] Poland: The Blue PoliceJan Grabowski, from Hunt for the Jews[7.2] Romania: Annihilation AbortedJean Ancel, from The History of the Holocaust in Romania[7.3] Vichy France: “Our” Jews and the RestSaul Friedländer, from The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939–1945[7.4] The Italian ParadoxSusan Zuccotti, from The Italians and the Holocaust[7.5] The Hungarian ParoxysmRandolph L. Braham, from Studies on the Holocaust[7.6] Papal PrioritiesMichael Phayer, from The Catholic Church and the Holocaust, 1930–1965[7.7] Self-Serving SwitzerlandIndependent Commission of Experts Switzerland—Second World War, from Switzerland, National Socialism, and the Second World WarChapter 8. Rescuing Jews—Means and ObstaclesIntroductionPeter Hayes[8.1] The Kovno ConnectionJonathan Goldstein, from Lessons and Legacies VI[8.2] The Good German of VilnaMichael Good, from The Search for Major Plagge[8.3] Collective Action in Vivarais-LignonPatrick Henry, from We Only Know Men[8.4] The Hidden Jews of WarsawGunnar S. Paulsson, from Secret City[8.5] Saving Jewish Children in BelgiumBob Moore, from Survivors[8.6] American InhibitionsRichard Breitman and Alan M. Kraut, from American Refugee Policy and European Jewry, 1933–1945[8.7] Sweden Expands AsylumPaul A. Levine, from From Indifference to ActivismChapter 9. AftermathIntroductionPeter Hayes[9.1] SurvivorsMark Wyman, from DPs: Europe’s Displaced Persons, 1945–51[9.2] Zion’s AmbivalenceTom Segev, from The Seventh Million[9.3] America’s IncomprehensionBeth B. Cohen, from Case Closed[9.4] The Great ReversalTony Judt, from Postwar[9.5] The Pathology of DenialRichard J. Evans, from Lying about Hitler[9.6] Restitution and Its DiscontentsMichael R. Marrus, from Some Measure of Justice[9.7] After Such KnowledgeEva Hoffman, from After Such KnowledgeList of AbbreviationsSource AcknowledgmentsIndex

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Book SynopsisIn 1942 Attu, the westernmost island in the Aleutian chain, was home to two Americans and forty-five Aleut hunters and their families. This book offers accounts of the survivors. It presents them here in their own immediate, direct, and informal language.Trade Review" ... there is a great deal of value for serving personnel and officer cadets in [this] book[s]."-- The Wish Stream, Vol 54, Summer 2000

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Book SynopsisThis is a meticulously researched history of the rule of the Axis powers in occupied Yugoslavia, along with the role of the other groups that collaborated with them—notably the extremist Croatian nationalist organization known as the Ustashas.Trade Review"There is plenty of significance in this truly monumental work of scholarship. Tomasevich's exhaustive mining of German and Italian government documents opens a fascinating window on the wartime exploitation of Yugoslavia's economic and human resources." -- Choice"The scholarly standard achieved by Jozo Tomasevich in his two volumes of "War and Revolution in Yugoslavia" and the thought of what he would have made of volume three of the series make his death a tragedy keenly felt even by those who never knew him." -- Klaus Schmider * Royal Military Academy Sandhurst *"All the distinguishing features Tomasevich showed in writing the first volume are also expressed in this book, which describes how the occupying forces ruled some parts of Yugoslavia, and how their collaborators adapted under such circumstances. . . . This book, together with its predecessor, is an invaluable foundation that no new research into World War II on the territory of former Yugoslavia will be able to bypass. It promises to remain for a long time to come." -- American Historical Review"Tomasevich succeeds again, in his final major work, in making solidly supported and reasonable claims in an environment that has long been defined by the instrumentalization and manipulation of historical claims. He restores faith in the enterprise of history by reviving a long-absent figure—the modest professional researcher hard at work." -- Eric Gordy * Clark University *"This is a magnificent work of superb scholarship. No other book in any language so clearly presents and analyzes the aims and policies of the Axis in occupied Yugoslavia, as well as those of the various collaborators. . . . The need for such a book is greater than ever, as controversies over the past rage in the post-Yugoslav states." -- Ivo Banac * Yale University *"The present work is the long-awaited sequel to [Tomasevich's] equally monumental War and Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941-1945: The Chetniks. . . . War and Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941-1945: Occupation and Collaboration aims at an academic audience, but it would be valuable to anyone interested in understanding the Yugoslav past and present. It is a must for any college library and desirable for larger public ones." -- History: Reviews of New Books"One cannot fail to be impressed by the remarkable command of research materials demonstrated throughout this study. . . . Tomasevich never shirks the need to tackle honestly the most sensitive and contentious areas of historical debate, and in this respect he has done a particular service to scholarship through his meticulous and balanced attempts to marshal the available evidence concerning Yugoslavia's losses between 1941 and 1945." -- Slavic Review"There is much to praise about Tomasevich's contribution. His ability to make exhaustive use of the military and diplomatic archives of the major forces involved in this region is no small feat, considering the variety of languages required and the way in which these archives have been dispersed and destroyed. He offers the fullest and most objective account available of the activities of the occupiers and collaborators, together with an extensive account of the economic consequences of the occupation...—Eric Gordy, Clark University"War and Revolution in Yugoslaia, 1941-1945 will almost certainly be considered the definitive work on the . . . .controversial topic of occupation and collaboration regimes in wartime Yugoslavia . . . .Tomasevich covered in meticulous and awe-inspiring detail the activities and experiences of those parts of Yugoslavia occupied by or in active collaboration with the various axis regimes during te Second World War . . . .What Tomasevich has done is certainly deserving of our highest praise. This volume, like his first, is an indispensable addition in the library of every serious scholar of Yugoslavia or the Second World War." -- Canadian Slavonic Papers

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Book SynopsisA history of the memory of the Occupation and the Resistance in the changing political circumstances of France from the Liberation to the present.Trade Review"Olivier Wieviorka accomplishes a staggering amount in the 179 pages that constitute Divided Memory: French Recollections of World War II from Liberation to the Present. Indeed, one cannot help but be awed by the efficiency of this accomplished historian. He is in control of his sources and his narrative from the outset of the book, and presents a tight and compelling argument in each chapter and across the entire book. Scholars of modern French history, of World War II, and of the Shoah will find in Wieviorka's book not only a valuable synthesis of current historiographical and theoretical impulses, but an eminently usable and accessible classroom resource."—Jonathan Ebel, French Forum"Wieviorka's analysis will interest anyone curious about the contested nature of memory in postwar France and the role of politics in shaping it. Summing Up: Recommended."—S. E. Cline, CHOICE"Wieviorka's well-researched and cogently written book is a solid addition to the analysis of the way the French remember their experiences during World War II . . . Wieviorka analyzes in depth the evolution of national commemoration days, memorials, museums, plaques, and the like. He traces with care the various political voices in the battles over how and what to remember . . . [I]t serves to add much-needed contour to the studies that have preceded it."—Gayle Levy, TriQuarterly Online"America's sense of nation is very strong today. French feelings about France and Frenchness, Wieviorka very successfully explains, are much more introspective and divided. This learned, pithy book is the best treatment I have seen of the phases through which France's memory of the Second World War has traveled to reach its current, complicated, and debilitated form. Americans reading this book in the disconcerting context of politically divisive memories of Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan will unfortunately find much food for thought."—Patrice Higonnet, Harvard University"This excellent book is the first to tackle the multiple, overlapping, and conflicting memories of all aspects of wartime France: the fall of France, Vichy, the Occupation, the deportations, the Resistance, the purges, the trials and amnesties. Wieviorka weaves in rich and revealing comparisons with other countries and takes on the question of whom the French republic was to honor: French people in compulsory service for the German army? Jewish victims? Raoul Salan, at once Resistance hero and leader of a terrorist organization during the Algerian War?"—Eric T. Jennings, University of Toronto"Divided Memory is well written and clear (for which both the author and translator no doubt deserve credit), and the book is an outstanding guide to its subject for novices and specialists alike anyone interested in French history during the twentieth century or in the study of memory, in general or in relation to the Second World War in particular, will profit immensely from reading this study."— Richard S. Fogarty, War in History

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Book SynopsisOffers a new picture of Hitler's conduct in World War II and a reinterpretation of the course of the war. Stolfi argues that but for one fateful decision by Hitler, which gave the defenders of Moscow time to regroup, Germany could have won the war in the summer of 1941.

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Book SynopsisBritain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) is often described as Winston Churchill's brainchild. But as A.R.B. Linderman reveals in this engrossing history, the real genius behind Britain's clandestine warriors was Colin Gubbins, a British officer who forged the SOE by drawing on lessons learned in irregular conflicts around the world.Trade ReviewAaron Linderman has drawn from an impressive array of primary sources to trace the institutional development of irregular warfare in the years prior to World War II and as England deployed it against the Axis Powers during the war. By linking the development of Britain's Special Operations Executive with the life and work of Major General Sir Colin Gubbins, Linderman shows the central role Gubbins played in the development of modern intelligence gathering and special operations. Insightful and valuable."" - William H. Kautt, author of Ground Truths: British Army Operations in the Irish War of Independence and Ambushes and Armour: The Irish Rebellion, 1919 - 1921""A. R. B. Linderman has written a valuable book about Special Operations Executive (SOE) chief Colin Gubbins's career development and pre - World War II study of irregular warfare. Linderman answers the critical question of how Gubbins tailored SOE to fight its brand of warfare, making Rediscovering Irregular Warfare a must-read for serious students of World War II special operations."" - Troy J. Sacquety, author of The OSS in Burma: Jungle War against the Japanese and Behind the Japanese Lines in Burma

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Book SynopsisReconstructs the lost world of a sailor's daily life in World War II. This moving work poignantly confronts the horrors of war, giving voice to a young sailor, the country he served, the family and friends he left behind, and the hope that has sustained them.

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Book SynopsisRadomir Luza's father - an army general - went underground when the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia. Tthe 19-year-old Radomir spent weeks in a Gestapo prison. On his release, he joined his father in hiding and helped organize the country's largest resistance network. Luza's narrative is a portrait of courage, tenderness, optimism and sheer survival.Trade Review"A work of art that coherently ties together countless beautifully narrated scenes of a most dramatic segment of Central European history." - International History Review; "Readers will come away with the feeling that they have just learned the best kind of history lesson - the triumph of the human spirit in the face of evil." - New Orleans Times-Picayune"

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Book SynopsisReplete with pedagogical resources including a discussion of how and why the Holocaust should be taught, a timeline, and suggestions for further reading, Potter's translation of You've Got to Tell Them showcases a clear and moving narrative of a young French girl overcoming one of the darkest periods in her life and in European history.

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Book SynopsisThrough 160 photographs from the National World War II Museum collection, Loyal Forces captures the heroism, hard work, and innate skills of innumerable animals that aided the military as they fought to protect, transport, communicate, and sustain morale.

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Book SynopsisWith an executive order from President Franklin Roosevelt in 1941, the United States Marine Corps - the last all-white branch of the US military - was forced to begin recruiting and enlisting African Americans. This book tells the story of these pioneering African American Marines.

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Book SynopsisThe Holocaust and justice: how can one link these terms? Is justice possible for crimes of such magnitude? Weighing these and other questions, a group of scholars attempt to untangle the complex and often contradictory relationship between the Holocaust and justice.

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Book SynopsisArgues that Holocaust literary representation has continued to flourish well into the twenty-first century. This bold new work examines those structures, tropes, patterns, ironies, disjunctions, and overall tensions that produce a literature that laments unrecoverable loss for a generation removed spatially and temporally from the extended trauma of the Holocaust.

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Book SynopsisThe social history of the genocide, its representation in postwar culture, and new theoretical approaches stand at the forefront of current research in a range of disciplines. Analyses at the most intimate scale of the individual or of a particular locale are juxtaposed with those that turn to broader studies of the war or postwar order.

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Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking study of responses to the Holocaust in wartime and postwar Polish literature explores seven writers' compulsive need to share their traumatic experience of witness with the world. It is a particularly timely book in view of the continuing debates about the attitudes of Poles toward the Jews during the war.Table of Contents 1. The Holocaust in Polish Consciousness: Early Literary Representations 2. The Moral Failure of the Enlightened Witness of the Holocaust: Kornel Filipowicz, Józef Mackiewicz, and Tadeusz Borowski 3. Re-thinking Christian theology in the Time of the Holocaust: Zofia Kossak–Szczucka 4. The Humanistic Crisis of a Godless World: Leopold Buczkowski 5. Catholic Existentialism in Face of the Occupation and the Holocaust: Jerzy Andrzejewski 6. The Holocaust and a Vision of Polish-Jewish Kinship: Stefan Otwinowski Epilogue Notes Index

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Book SynopsisChallenges a number of key themes in Holocaust studies with new research. Taken together, these essays incorporate gender analysis, spatial thinking, and victim agency into Holocaust studies. In so doing, they move beyond existing notions of perpetrators, victims, and bystanders to portray the Holocaust as a complex and multilayered event.Trade Review“Tim Cole and Simone Gigliotti bring together a fascinating range of approaches from social history to cultural and migration and media studies, historical geography, literary studies, and linguistics. Their volume shows how methodological challenges of Holocaust scholarship can be addressed by taking on two scales of analysis—the microhistory of the individual and the mezzo-history of social groups.” —Natalia Aleksiun, author of Conscious History: Polish-Jewish Historians before the HolocaustTable of Contents Introduction: The Holocaust in the Twenty-First Century: Relevance and Challenges in the Digital Age, Tim Cole and Simone Gigliotti Part I. Tropes Reconsidered 1. Re-imagining the ‘gray zone’: Female Prisoner Functionaries in the Groß-Rosen Subcamps, 1944-45, Andrea Rudorff 2. The Muselmann Liberated: Impossible Holocaust Metaphors in Survivor Memoirs and Photography, Sharon B. Oster 3. Absent Presence, Pathological Afterimages, and the Aesthetics of Excrement, Holli Levitsky 4. When one door closes, another opens: The Demjanjuk Trials in Israel (1986-1993) and in Germany (2009-2011), Yehudit Dori-Deston Part II. Survival Strategies and Obstructions 5. The Geographies of Living Underground: Escape Routes and Hiding Spaces of Fugitive Jews in the Bavarian Countryside, 1939-1945, Susanna Schrafstetter 6. Bella Hazan Ya`ari: A Member of the Jewish Resistance in Pursuit of Self and a Future, Dalia Ofer 7. Migration Narratives of Holocaust Survivors in Chile, Colombia and Mexico, Lorena Avila, Nancy Nicholls, and Yael Siman Part III. Digital Methods, Digital Memory 8. A Different Approach to Microhistory: The Arrests of the Jews of the Vaucluse as Seen through Quantitative Prosopography, Adrien Dallaire 9. Mind the Gap: Reading Across the Holocaust Testimonial Archive, Anne Kelly Knowles, Paul B. Jaskot, Tim Cole, and Alberto Giordano 10. When the Index is Wrong: Exploring Black Holes in Victim Memory, Hannah Pollin-Galay 11. People, Places, Things: Considering the Role of Visitor Photography at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum”Meghan Lundrigan Author biographies

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Book SynopsisAt once a chase novel, black comedy, and softly keening death song, Count Luna starts off at a gallop and accelerates into warp speedTrade Review"Daunting panache, fast-moving, cleverly convoluted, terrific." -- Eileen Battersby - Irish Times"Austrian writer Lernet-Holenia (Mona Lisa, 1897–1976) addresses guilt over WWII in this masterly novel, originally published in 1955....Lernet-Holenia’s dark humor propels the narrative, and Jessiersky’s obsession is expertly handled, leading to a wholly unexpected conclusion. Driven by intense psychological descriptions, this tale of inaction against injustice has aged quite well." -- Publishers Weekly (starred)"In Count Luna, an industrialist inadvertently responsible for sending a man to a concentration camp feels certain that the fellow survived the war and is mounting a shadowy campaign of revenge. Like Kafka, whom he otherwise does not resemble, Lernet-Holenia weaves his most intimate hopes and dreams into the texture of what happens next with exquisitely imagined detail." -- The Chicago Tribune"Brilliant, extra stylish, excellently written and fearsomely gripping." -- The London Times

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewHinnershitz’s groundbreaking account investigates how the prison labor system was imposed on Japanese Americans and permanent resident non-citizens of Japanese ancestry who were confined in War Relocation Authority (WRA) incarceration camps (formerly 'internment' camps) during World War II...[A] significant contribution to the literature of Japanese American incarceration. * Pacific Historical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. The Economics of Incarceration and the Blueprint for Japanese American Labor Chapter 2. "What Good Was My Contract?" From Free to Convict Laborers Chapter 3. "Worse Than Prisoners": Labor Resistance in the Detention Centers and Prison Camps Chapter 4. A Prison by Any Other Name: Labor and the Poston "Colony" Chapter 5. Redemptive Labor: Japanese American Resettlement Conclusion Notes Selected Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBridges to Memory claims ethnic American women’s writing as a space of trauma, memory, and postmemory. Shaped by the inheritance of past traumas of slavery and immigration, these powerful texts, discussed here with sensitivity and care, point us back to the legacies of violence and forward to a future that can practice recognition and imagine repair."" — Marianne Hirsch, Columbia University, author of The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture after the Holocaust""Maria Rice Bellamy’s Bridges to Memory chronicles how contemporary ethnic American women writers have creatively confronted the ‘seething presence’ of trauma and of trauma survivors, especially the ‘female forebears’ including mothers and grandmothers–but also motherlands and mother tongues. An arresting feature of this discussion is that the narratives of postmemory–of ‘traumatic inheritance’—include African American, Cuban American, Korean American, and Haitian American narratives by women writers all variously seeking to ‘create a new world song.’ Much as Professor Bellamy puts these authors in conversation and community with each other, she herself is communing with them and with writers and scholars including especially Toni Morrison and Marianne Hirsch. The great result is that Bridges to Memory is one of the extraordinary literary studies that advances our thoughts –and creative energies—in many fields of inquiry and imagination."" — Robert B. Stepto, Yale University, author of A Home Elsewhere: Reading African American Classics in the Age of Obama

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Book SynopsisThis set of interdisciplinary and interfaith essays undertakes a gendered analysis of women as victims, rescuers, perpetrators and survivers, as well as their representation by post-war artists.

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Book SynopsisContains twenty first-person narrative essays from Holocaust survivors who were children at the time of the atrocity. This book also focuses on what these children became - teachers, engineers, physicians, entrepreneurs, librarians, parents, and grandparents, and explores the impact of the Holocaust on their later lives.

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Book SynopsisAn intimate history of the Holocaust that casts new light on our understanding of victimhood and survival.

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Book SynopsisChallenges the notion that there is an unproblematic connection between Holocaust memory and the discourse of anti-racism. Through diverse case studies, this volume historicizes how the Holocaust has shaped engagement with racism from the 1940s until the present, demonstrating that contemporary assumptions are neither obvious nor inevitable.

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Book SynopsisAnalyses how the heroic saga of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was mythologized in a way that captured the attention of Jews around the world, allowing them to imagine what it might have been like to be there, engaged in the struggle against the Nazi oppressor.

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Book SynopsisWhen the United States entered World War II on December 7, 1941, only one group of American soldiers had already confronted the fascist enemy on the battlefield. This book contains 154 letters selected from thousands held in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives at NYU's Tamiment Library, provides a fresh perspective on aspects of World War II.Table of ContentsIllustrations PrefaceAcknowledgments Chapter 1 : Before Pearl HarborChapter 2 : At War with the Army Chapter 3 : Problems in Red and Black Chapter 4 : In the Combat Theaters Chapter 5 : Premature Antifascists and the Postwar World Appendix : Biographical Index of Letter Writers Bibliography Index About the Editors

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Book SynopsisA new look at a well-covered piece of history, the book looks at how racism shaped WW2.Trade ReviewAn expansive and unflinching survey of race and empire, Race War! shows the complexities of white supremacy and resistances to it. -- Gary Y. Okihiro,Columbia University and author of Common Ground: Reimagining American HistoryGerald Horne is one of the most gifted and insightful historians on racial matters of his generation. In Race War! Horne presents a provocative yet convincing argument that unearths the racial dimensions of U.S. policies pursued in the Far East during the Second World War. Horne's thesis provides a strikingly new and powerful interpretation of the international politics of race in the twentieth century. -- Manning Marable,Center for Contemporary Black History, Columbia UniversityThis fabulous study shows where global history can go. It adventurously moves to practically every continent, producing especially sharp insights into world views of race in the U.S. Horne arrestingly shows how Anglo-U.S.racism enabled Japan to pursue empire while claiming a place as the champion of struggles against white supremacy. -- David Roediger,University of Illinois, author of Colored White: Transcending the Racial PastThrough multi-archival research that spans five continents, Gerald Horne demonstrates how and why the Pacific War should be understood as a Race War, not as an exculpation of Japan's Pan Asianism, but because of the poisonous triumph of the 'color line.' Horne powerfully argues that we should not forget that white supremacy retains salience in spite of, or because of, the Anglo-American victory in the Pacific War half a century ago. -- Yukiko Koshiro,Colgate UniversityBesides writing an important history, Horne adds to our understanding of the evolution of white supremacy. * Political Affairs *Table of ContentsPreface AcknowledgmentsIntroduction 1 To Be of "Pure European Descent" 2 The Asiatic Black Man? 3 Race/War 4 Internment 5 War/Race 6 Race Reversed/Gender Transformed 7 The White Paci?c8 Asians versus White Supremacy 9 Race at War 10 Race World Conclusion: In the Wake of White Supremacy Epilogue Notes Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisA new look at a well-covered piece of history, the book looks at how racism shaped WW2.Trade Review"An expansive and unflinching survey of race and empire, Race War! shows the complexities of white supremacy and resistances to it." -- Gary Y. Okihiro,Columbia University and author of Common Ground: Reimagining American History"Gerald Horne is one of the most gifted and insightful historians on racial matters of his generation. In Race War! Horne presents a provocative yet convincing argument that unearths the racial dimensions of U.S. policies pursued in the Far East during the Second World War. Horne's thesis provides a strikingly new and powerful interpretation of the international politics of race in the twentieth century." -- Manning Marable,Center for Contemporary Black History, Columbia University"This fabulous study shows where global history can go. It adventurously moves to practically every continent, producing especially sharp insights into world views of race in the U.S. Horne arrestingly shows how Anglo-U.S.racism enabled Japan to pursue empire while claiming a place as the champion of struggles against white supremacy." -- David Roediger,University of Illinois, author of Colored White: Transcending the Racial Past"Through multi-archival research that spans five continents, Gerald Horne demonstrates how and why the Pacific War should be understood as a Race War, not as an exculpation of Japan's Pan Asianism, but because of the poisonous triumph of the 'color line.' Horne powerfully argues that we should not forget that white supremacy retains salience in spite of, or because of, the Anglo-American victory in the Pacific War half a century ago." -- Yukiko Koshiro,Colgate University"Besides writing an important history, Horne adds to our understanding of the evolution of white supremacy." * Political Affairs *Table of ContentsPreface AcknowledgmentsIntroduction 1 To Be of "Pure European Descent" 2 The Asiatic Black Man? 3 Race/War 4 Internment 5 War/Race 6 Race Reversed/Gender Transformed 7 The White Paci?c8 Asians versus White Supremacy 9 Race at War 10 Race World Conclusion: In the Wake of White Supremacy Epilogue Notes Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisRecounts the harrowing experiences of American soldiers in Asia and the Pacific. Based on countless diaries and letters, it sweeps across the battlefields, from the early desperate stand at Guadalcanal to the tragic sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis at war's very end.Trade Review"Peter Schrijvers has pulled a ‘double' by writing a worthy companion to The Crash of Ruin: American Combat Soldiers in Europe during World War II. His study of the soldiers' war against Japan transcends simplistic race-hate explanations and reconstructs the psycho-social context of war in which only the enemy remained the same." -- Allan R. Millett,Director of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies at the University of New Orleans"This terrifying, remarkable work examines the attitudes, perceptions, and behavior of U.S. fighting men in the Pacific theatre. . . . Among the most unsettling books I've read in years." * The Atlantic Monthly *"One cannot read this volume without coming away with a fresh way of thinking about the subject. Peter Schrijvers has broadened our perspective of the sociology of the American fighting man in the Second World War" * War In History *"A rich and compelling cultural and social history of American servicemen and -women serving in Asia and the Pacific during World War II" * The Journal of American History *"Schrijvers builds upon earlier works and successfully goes beyond them to provide a scholarly account of the full range of American experiences in the Pacific and Asian theatres. He makes excellent use of diaries, letters, training manuals, and official reports. The book is an impressive scholarly achievement. Schrijverss vivid portrayal of the American experience in the war against Japan permits us to see that experience in a broader historical context and reveals patterns of thought and action that are enduring features of the American character" * The International History Review *"Schrijvers book is a valuable addition to the literature on the war in the Pacific." * H-Net Book Review *"Just when it appeared that little remained to be said about the Pacific War, Schrijvers produces the best social history of the conflict to date...This is an important book, not only about WWII but also about the nature of war itself . . . Highly recommended." * Choice *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A rich, comprehensive study." * Philadelphia New Observer *"Drawing on the testimony of former members of the unit, Moore recounts its formation, training and service in the European theater of operations in 1945-46, highlighting the discrimination women faced because of their race and gender. . . . An important contribution to African American and gender studies ." * Publishers Weekly *"Moore has made an incredible discovery. This book will be a major contribution to military studies, African American studies, and women's studies." * Booklist *"This work fills the void that has been created by scholars of military institutions. It represents an original analysis of the experience of women of African descent who served their country in the Women's Army Corps during World War II. Her robust analysis of their feelings, motivations and experience within the military provides the reader with a moving tale of accomplishments of black women during a critical point in the history of the country. Professor Moore's separation of race and gender effects in the book is excellent, and brings out the fact that women of African descent must be seen in their own historical light if one is to understand their unique history. This book makes a significant contribution to military sociology, gender studies, American studies, and race and ethnic relations." -- John Sibley Butler,The University of Texas at Austin, author of Entrepreneurship and Self-Help Among Black Americans: A Reconsideration of Race and Economics"A fascinating account of black women in the armed forces in World War II. We are indebted to Brenda Moore for recording this story while these women are still with us. Moore gives powerful new insights for African American studies, gender studies, and military history." -- Charles Moskos,Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University

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Book SynopsisA rare and entertaining look at Felicity Ashbee's experiences as a member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force during World War II.Trade ReviewFelicity's story weaves a rich tapestry, touching on many different aspects of the war experience, and provides a personal account of the mixed fortunes of those women who sought to make their way in a supremely male-oriented environment.- Stephen Walton, senior curator, Imperial War Museum, UK

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Book SynopsisThis work is an analysis of the ideology, causal patterns, and means employed in the Nazi genocide against the Jews. It argues that the events of the genocide compel reconsideration of such moral concepts as individual and group responsibility, and the role of knowledge in ethical decisions.Trade ReviewA master of formal argumentation and logic. . . The historical mode Professor Lang subsequently recommends becomes a remarkable instrument in his hands. We watch a master craftsman building moral judgments. He picks and chooses among the facts, using imagination and logical inference to probe, juxtapose, and join. He finds evidence in unexpected places. With brilliance, Lang invites us to consider . . . how we can be confident in claiming that the Nazis intended the genocide of the Jews. Berel Lang argues that the events of the genocide compel reconsideration of such fundamental moral concepts as individual and group responsibility, the role of knowledge in ethical decisions, and the conditions governing the relation between guilt and forgiveness. . .Lang shows how the moral implications of genocide extend to linguistic and artistic presentations of the Nazi extermination of the Jews.

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Book SynopsisBased on a three-day symposium, ""The Claims of Memory,"" this book conveys the omnipresence of memory in Elie Wiesel's writing and attempts to preserve the flavor of the exchange that took place. It also represents several intersecting approaches to memory.Table of ContentsCynthia Ozick, ""The Rights of History and the Rights of Imagination""; Susan Suleiman, ""Do Facts Matter in Holocaust Memoirs? Wilkomirski/Wiesel""; Shlomo Breznitz, ""The Advantages of Delay: A Psychological Perspective on Memoirs of Trauma""; John Silber, ""Memory, History, and Ethics""; Geoffrey Hartman, ""The Morality of Fiction and Elie Wiesel""; Jeffrey Mehlman, ""Reflections on the Papon Trial""; Paula Fredriksen, ""Augustine on God and Memory"".

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