Second World War Books
Rutgers University Press Jewish Childhood in Kraków: A Microhistory of the
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2020 Ernst Fraenkel Prize from the Wiener Holocaust LibraryJewish Childhood in Kraków is the first book to tell the history of Kraków in the second World War through the lens of Jewish children’s experiences. Here, children assume center stage as historical actors whose recollections and experiences deserve to be told, analyzed, and treated seriously. Sliwa scours archives to tell their story, gleaning evidence from the records of the German authorities, Polish neighbors, Jewish community and family, and the children themselves to explore the Holocaust in German-occupied Poland and in Kraków in particular. A microhistory of a place, a people, and daily life, this book plumbs the decisions and behaviors of ordinary people in extraordinary times. Offering a window onto human relations and ethnic tensions in times of rampant violence, Jewish Childhood in Kraków is an effort both to understand the past and to reflect on the position of young people during humanitarian crises.Trade Review"A well-researched book. An important addition to Holocaust literature." -- Jan T. Gross * author of Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland *:This well researched book on the history of Jewish Childhood in Kraków will become a standard work on the subject, inviting other scholars to investigate Jewish childhood in other ghettos in Nazi-occupied Europe.: -- Joanna Beata Michlic * author of Poland's Threatening Other: The Image of the Jew from 1880 to the Present *"Joanna Sliwa offers a nuanced and compelling picture of what it meant to grow up Jewish under the German occupation of Kraków, one of the oldest Jewish communities in Poland. By giving voice to Jewish children and their fears, heartbreaks, loss, and survival, she allows readers to learn of children’s vulnerability and resilience, agency and helplessness firsthand. These voices will become central to the ways we think about Jewish children’s experiences during the Holocaust." -- Natalia Aleksiun * author of Conscious History: Polish Jewish Historians before the Holocaust *"A well-researched book. An important addition to Holocaust literature." -- Jan T. Gross * author of Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland *:This well researched book on the history of Jewish Childhood in Kraków will become a standard work on the subject, inviting other scholars to investigate Jewish childhood in other ghettos in Nazi-occupied Europe.: -- Joanna Beata Michlic * author of Poland's Threatening Other: The Image of the Jew from 1880 to the Present *"Joanna Sliwa offers a nuanced and compelling picture of what it meant to grow up Jewish under the German occupation of Kraków, one of the oldest Jewish communities in Poland. By giving voice to Jewish children and their fears, heartbreaks, loss, and survival, she allows readers to learn of children’s vulnerability and resilience, agency and helplessness firsthand. These voices will become central to the ways we think about Jewish children’s experiences during the Holocaust." -- Natalia Aleksiun * author of Conscious History: Polish Jewish Historians before the Holocaust *"Sliwa’s book is an essential contribution to Holocaust scholarship, but even more significantly, she offers us the opportunity to learn about children’s experiences, which often are absent from Holocaust literature. Their concealed presence, which Sliwa spends so much time discussing, is precisely what makes it difficult to tell their stories. But Sliwa’s persistence and ability to dig through a multitude of sources to find even the smallest pieces of information resulted in this remarkable account that will hopefully encourage future scholars to explore the experiences of children in other parts of Poland and Europe." -- Rachel Rothstein * H-Poland *Table of ContentsNote on Terminology Introduction 1 Navigating Shifts in the City 2 Adapting to Life inside the Ghetto 3 Clandestine Activities 4 Child Welfare 5 Concealed Presence in the Camp 6 Survival through Hiding and Flight Epilogue Acknowledgments Abbreviations Used in Notes Notes Bibliography Index
£107.20
University of Toronto Press The Evidence Room
Book SynopsisInternationally renowned and award-winning historian Dr. Robert Jan van Pelt's The Evidence Room is a chilling exploration of the role architecture played in constructing Auschwitz - arguably the Nazis' most horrifying facility. The Evidence Room is both a companion piece to, and an elaboration of, an exhibit at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, based on van Pelt's authoritative testimony against Holocaust denial in a 2000 libel suit argued before the Royal Courts of Justice in London.Table of ContentsThe Evidence Room Project - Elly Gotz The Evidence in the Room and the Memory of the Offence - Robert Jan van Pelt Correspondence - Donald McKay To Build a Gas Column - Michael Nugent Generations - Tom Nugent Tagebuch einer Halbdeutsche - Sascha Hastings The Casts Court - Anne Bordeleau The Evidence Room Exhibition The Casts - Piper Bernbaum - Anna Beznogova - Anna Longrigg - Siobhan Allman - Bradley Paddock - Alexandru Vilcu The Monuments The Matrix List of figures Hineni: An Essay in Acknowledgment - Robert Jan van Pelt Contributor Biographies Credits
£25.19
University of Toronto Press Double Threat: Canadian Jews, the Military, and
Book Synopsis"He died so Jewry should suffer no more." These words on a Canadian Jewish soldier's tombstone in Normandy inspired the author to explore the role of Canadian Jews in the war effort. As PM Mackenzie King wrote in 1947, Jewish servicemen faced a "double threat" - they were not only fighting against Fascism but for Jewish survival. At the same time, they encountered widespread antisemitism and the danger of being identified as Jews if captured. Bessner conducted hundreds of interviews and extensive archival research to paint a complex picture of the 17,000 Canadian Jews - about 10 per cent of the Jewish population in wartime Canada - who chose to enlist, including future Cabinet minister Barney Danson, future game-show host Monty Hall, and comedians Wayne and Shuster. Added to this fascinating account are Jews who were among the so-called "Zombies" - Canadians who were drafted, but chose to serve at home - the various perspectives of the Jewish community, and the participation of Canadian Jewish women.Trade Review"That we now have a treasure trove of information to which we have never before been privy is beyond important and will help us to fill out our understanding of Canada’s and the Jewish community’s war experience." -- Jennifer Shaw * Canadian Jewish Studies *"One of the first books to be released by the Toronto-based New Jewish Press may turn out to be one of its most impressive. Double Threat by Ellin Bessner leaves no stones unturned in its telling of the full-blooded saga of the heroic participation of Jewish men and women in the Canadian military during the Second World War. It’s a worthy topic, and one that, surprisingly, has never been covered in such depth before. For that reason, the book has the feel of a popular Canadian Jewish classic, comparable, say, to None Is Too Many or Canada’s Jews: A People’s Journey." -- Bill Gladstone * Canadian Jewish News *"Bessner has written a very readable and engaging story on the challenges and obstacles (not the least of which was antisemitism) confronted by the serviceman and servicewoman at home and in the battlefields." -- Sonia Smith, McGill University * AJL Reviews *"This book is the first study that delves into the lives of these men and women: who they were, their hopes for the future, and why they volunteered. It’s also about the daily anti-semitism they confronted and the dangersvthey faced if they were captured by the Nazis…Thoroughly researched, the book is replete with anecdotes Bessner picked up from the more than 200 interviews she conducted…[This book is] a worthy and long awaited celebration of the bravery and sacrifice of a generation of Canadian Jewry." -- Irving Abella, York University * The Canadian Historical Review *"Ellin Bessner’s Double Threat: Canadian Jews, the Military, and World War II makes a compelling contribution to our understanding of how this country’s diverse Jewish population responded to the cataclysms of the Second World War and the genocide of European Jewry." -- Andrew Theobald * Canadian Military History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Fighting Amalek 2. Signing Up 3. Jewish Communists in Uniform 4. The Battle of Hong Kong 5. Dieppe 6. Jews in the Air Force 7. The Navy and Merchant Navy 8. Jewish Women in Uniform 9. Life in the Barracks 10. Off-Duty Activities 11. Jewish Heroes 12. Keeping the Faith 13. Liberation 14. Coming Home 15. Kaddish for D-Day Notes References Photographs Index
£22.49
Palgrave Macmillan Writing Resistance in the Second World War
Book Synopsis1. Introduction Neglected and hidden voices: Definitions, scope, issues and approach.- 2. Intelligence and the Norwegian experience: Deception and participation as framing.- 3. Local newspapers and the Kent experience: The impact of deception on communities and professional journalism.- 4. French resistance writing and D-Day.- 5. Challenging perceptions of cultural heritage: The implications for future scholarship.
£104.49
De Gruyter Holocaust Denial: The Politics of Perfidy
Book SynopsisHolocaust Denial. The Politics of Perfidy provides a graphic and compelling global panorama of past and present variations on this toxic phenomenon. The volume examines right and left wing French negationism, post-Communist Holocaust deniers in Eastern-Europe, the spread of denial to Australia, Canada, South-Africa and even to Japan. Leading scholarly experts also explore the close connection between Holocaust denial, global conspiracy theories, antisemitism and radical anti-Zionism – especially in Iran and the Arab world.
£98.32
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Erinnern müssen und Vergessen dürfen: Der
Book SynopsisMehr als 70 Jahre nach dem Ende des Nationalsozialismus prägt die wachsende zeitliche Distanz zum historischen Geschehen die Auseinandersetzung mit diesem. Veränderte familiäre Bezüge, der Abschied von Zeitzeug*innen und gegenwärtige gesellschaftliche Diskurse nehmen Einfluss auf die Perspektiven Jugendlicher. Dies wirft eine Vielzahl von Fragen auf: Wie beschäftigen sich junge Menschen in Deutschland mehr als sieben Jahrzehnte nach dem Holocaust mit dem Thema? Welche Relevanz hat der Nationalsozialismus für sie, welche geschichtlichen Vorstellungen von der Zeit haben sie und wie erleben sie den Umgang damit in Deutschland? Die Studie geht diesen Fragen anhand des Gruppendiskussionsverfahrens und der Grounded Theory Methodologie empirisch nach, nimmt Kontinuitäten und Brüche in den Bezügen zum Nationalsozialismus in den Blick und zeigt Zusammenhänge zur Identifikation mit Deutschland auf.Table of ContentsEinleitung.- Forschungsstand.- Methodologie und Methodisches Vorgehen.- Vorstellung des Materials.- Ergebnisse der Analyse.- Kontextualisierung und Einordnung in den Forschungsstand.- Theorieentwicklung.- Fazit.
£49.49
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG „Narren in Christo“: Jehovas Zeugen im
Book SynopsisDie vorliegende Studie ist die erste, die den Erinnerungsspuren nachgeht, die Jehovas Zeugen (Bibelforscher) in den Erzähltexten Überlebender des Nationalsozialismus hinterlassen haben. Trotz unterschiedlicher Erinnerungskulturen und -interessen seitens der Autoren ergibt sich ein einheitliches und zugleich schillerndes Bild. Häufig nur Erzählobjekte ohne eigene Stimme, bleiben sie randständig, andersartig und widersprüchlich. Jehovas Zeugen faszinieren, befremden und stören. Als Heilige, Propheten, Märtyrer, Samariter und Sündenböcke stehen sie in der Nachfolge des Sohnes Gottes. Bezüge ergeben sich auch zur Figur des christlichen Narren: nicht von dieser Welt, der Welt des nationalsozialistischen Terrors, aber zugleich in ihr und gegen sie zeugend.Table of ContentsInhaltsverzeichnis Vorbemerkungen Und Danksagung Iv 1 Einführung 1 1.1 Textbeispiele als Ausgangspunkt 4 1.2 Forschungsüberblick 11 1.3 Inhaltliche und methodische Vorüberlegungen 16 2 Jehovas Zeugen 36 2.1 Religiöses Weltbild 41 2.2 Jehovas Zeugen und der Nationalsozialismus 47 2.3 Geschichte der Zeugen Jehovas von der Weimarer Republik bis zum Ende der NS-Zeit 58 2.4 Jehovas Zeugen im NS-Diskurs der Nachkriegszeit 71 3 Analytischer Teil: Die Literarischen Texte 82 3.1 Wolfgang Langhoff Die Moorsoldaten (1935) 82 3.1.1 Der Ich-Erzähler, der Bibelforscher Frank(e) und die Häftlingsgesellschaft in der Lichtenburg 85 3.1.2 Der Hitlergruß 93 3.1.3 Das Erzählte im Kontext der Exilliteratur 101 3.2 Robert Antelme L´espèce humaine (1947) 110 3.2.1 Der Ich-Erzähler und der Bibelforscher im Lager Gandersheim 115 3.2.2 Der Bibelforscher und das Menschengeschlecht 132 3.2.3 Der Bibelforscher und die Religionskritik im Erzähltext 148 3.3 Hans Werner Richter Sie fielen aus Gottes Hand (1951) 156 3.3.1 Der Erzählabschnitt „Bibelforscher in der Wüste“ im Romankontext 159 3.3.2 Der Bibelforscher Schiemann im Figurengefüge 163 3.3.3 Religiöse Motive 170 3.3.4 Anpassung, Widerstand und die Schuldfrage im Roman 178 3.4 Bruno Apitz Nackt unter Wölfen (1958) 193 3.4.1 Der gesellschafts- und literaturpolitische Kontext 200 3.4.2 Bruno Apitz´ Schreibstrategien 213 3.4.3 Die Handlungsfigur Förste im Buchenwalder Figurenensemble 223 3.4.4 Die Bedeutung des Kalfaktors für den Roman 234 3.5 Max von der Grün Zwei Briefe an Pospischiel (1968) 245 3.5.1 Der Bibelforscher Albert Pospischiel im Urteil der Bewohner Egers 253 3.5.2 Das Beziehungsgeflecht der Familie Pospischiel 263 3.5.3 Der Ich-Erzähler Paul Pospischiel 270 3.5.4 Die Gesellschaftsutopie des Romans 282 3.6 Jorge Semprún Quel beau dimanche! (1980) 288 3.6.1 Die Zeugen Jehovas und Jehova (Johann) 291 3.6.2 Die Beziehung zwischen dem Ich-Erzähler und dem Zeugen Jehovas 300 3.6.3 Intertextuelle Bezüge 310 3.6.4 Chronotopische Motive 318 3.6.5 Semprúns zweiter Buchenwald-Roman im Kontext seiner literarischen KZ-Erinnerungen 326 4 Zusammenfassung Und Diskussion 336 4.1 Auswertung der literarischen Texte 336 4.1.1 Zeiten und Räume 336 4.1.2 Jehovas Zeugen als Handlungsfiguren 350 4.1.3 Religiöse Aspekte der Bibelforscher-Figuren 369 4.1.4 „Narren in Christo“ 380 4.1.5 Jehovas Zeugen im Handlungszusammenhang und Figurengefüge 402 4.1.6 Darstellungsweisen 409 4.2 Die Erinnerungen der Autoren 421 4.2.1 Weltanschaulich geprägte Erinnerungen 421 4.2.2 Soldatische Erinnerungen 432 4.2.3 Die Erinnerungen der Flakhelfer-Generation 442 4.2.4 Ideologie-, selbstkritische und fiktionalisierte Erinnerungen 455 4.3 Jehovas Zeugen zwischen poetischer Anerkennung und Missachtung 465 5 Ausblick 477 5.1 Jehovas Zeugen im literarischen Erinnerungsdiskurs der Nachkriegsgeneration: Fritz Lehner Hotel Metropol 477 5.2 Epilog 490 6 Literaturverzeichnis 498 6.1 Ungedruckte und schwer zugängliche Quellen 498 6.2 Siglenverzeichnis 498 6.3 Literarische Texte zum Nationalsozialismus 499 6.4 Zusätzliche literarische Texte 504 6.5 Sekundärliteratur 506
£85.49
Klaus Schwarz Wolgatataren Im Deutschland Des Zweiten
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Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic Radio and the Performance of Government:
Book SynopsisAn original study of radio propaganda in Czechoslovakia. Between 1939 and 1945, Czechoslovakia disappeared from the maps, existing only as an imagined ‘free republic’ on the radio waves. Following the German invasion and annexation of Bohemia and Moravia and the declaration of independence by Slovakia on 15 March 1939, the Czechoslovak Republic was gone. From their position in exile in wartime London, former Czechoslovak President Edvard Beneš and the government that formed around him depended on radio to communicate with the public they strove to represent. The broadcasts made by government figures in London enabled a performance of authority to impress their hosts, allies, occupying enemies, and claimed constituents. This book examines this government program for the first time, making use of previously unstudied archival sources to examine how the exiles understood their mission and how their propaganda work was shaped by both British and Soviet influences. This study assesses the strengths, weaknesses, and limitations of the government’s radio propaganda as they navigated the complexities of exile, with chapters examining how they used the radio to establish their authority, how they understood the past and future of the Czechoslovak nation, and how they struggled to include Slovakia and Subcarpathian Ruthenia within it.Trade Review“The book makes an important contribution to our understanding of those who recreated Czechoslovakia in 1945. It reveals, via the broadcasts, what can be learnt about the exiles’ mentality and the major obstacles which confronted them from both enemies and allies… It will certainly be used as a starting point for new research about radio propaganda in wartime Central Europe.” * Mark Cornwall, University of Southampton *Table of Contents1. List of Abbreviations2. Introduction2.1 Czechoslovakia: ‘The Child of Propaganda’2.2 Radio: The Ideal Medium for Exile2.3 Less Trouble than the Rest: The Czechoslovak Government within the British Propaganda Structure2.4 Scope and Sources3. ‘Legal, Loyal, and Internationally Recognised’: Legitimacy and the Performance of Government3.1 ‘In the Name of the Czechoslovak Republic’: The Authority of Legality3.2 ‘We Are the Masaryk Nation’: The Authority of Tradition3.3 ‘We Are Close Together at Heart’: The Authority of Charisma3.4 Exercising Authority: The Odsun and ‘Rabble-rousing’ from London4. Populating the ‘Free Republic’: Performing Nationhood over the Radio, Radio as a Medium for Nation Building4.1 ‘Faithful to the Spirit of our History’: Reading the War into the National Narrative4.2 ‘Anything That is Dear to Their Hearts’: The Mobilisation of Culture5. Idiots and Traitors? Addressing Slovakia from London5. 1 ‘The Admirable and Loyal Czechoslovak Nation’5.2 ‘Do Not Betray Yourselves’: A Policy of Negative Propaganda5.3 ‘There Is No Free Slovakia’: Political Arguments5.4 ‘The Most Blatant Ingratitude’: The Slovak State and the USA5.5 ‘Your Catholic, Christian, and Slovak Conscience Compels You’: Religious Arguments5.6 Russians, not Monsters: Tackling the Bolshevik Bogey6. ‘We Will Manage Our Own Affairs’: The Soviet Union and Broadcasting the Future of Czechoslovakia6.1 Neither Hell nor Paradise: 1940–June 19416.2 ‘Our Brother Slavs’: June 1941–19436.3 When Propaganda Diverges from Policy: Mid-1943 Onwards6.4 ‘If It Doesn’t Work, It Will Not Be Our Fault’: The Changing Representation of Poland and the Central-European Confederation6.5 ‘Subcarpathian Ruthenia Is Czechoslovak’: Broadcasting to a Lost Territory7. Conclusions8. Bibliography of Sources
£28.00
Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo Crime Without Punishment – The Extermination and
Book SynopsisThis book is an exploration of the scope and methods used by Germany in its extermination and Germanization policy aimed at Polish children in the years 1939 to 1945. Children were sent to prisons and concentration camps, pseudomedical experiments were conducted on them, they were sent into forced labor, and planned mass abductions of them were conducted for the purpose of Germanization. The German leadership remained firmly convinced that the crimes they committed on children would never see the light of day; they erased all traces of the children’s origins, changing first and last names, and dates of birth. This extermination and Germanization of Polish children was part of a long-term plan to secure the ultimate end of annexing the Polish lands to Germany. By means of the Germanization and extermination of Polish children, an “age-old problem” was meant to be solved; it was to be a measure to prevent a future generation of Poles from striving to regain the pillaged lands of their fathers.
£35.70
NIAS Press End of Empire: 100 Days in 1945 that Changed Asia
Book SynopsisAlmost nowhere in eastern Asia did the end of World War II bring peace. Within days, the fragile wartime truce between Nationalists and Communists in China began to fray. Even before Japan's formal surrender, nationalist revolutions were sweeping through much of the region, most notably in Vietnam and Indonesia, seeking to forestall the return of the old colonial order. And for a brief moment, Koreans stood united and on the verge of independence. At the same time in Japan, there was shock and despair at the ruination of empire. The results were momentous. In the short, 100-day period between the incineration of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 and the following November when the first frosts of the Cold War began to be felt, important political and military foundations were laid not least the rise of Communist China, the division of Korea, the end of European colonial power, the birth of new, independent nation-states, and the emergence of a new democratic order in Japan. These developments have profoundly influenced the history not just of Asia but also the world. Imparting some of the chaotic uncertainty of the period, this innovative study presents a kaleidoscope of over 300 events, illuminated with expert commentary, photographs, maps and personal accounts.
£999.99
Leiden University Press The Invasion of the Dutch East Indies: Compiled
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£74.70
University of the West Indies Press World War II and the Caribbean
Book SynopsisWorld War II and the Caribbean focuses on one of the most exciting periods in the history of the region as the Caribbean territories faced incredible upheaval and opportunity during the war years. Local operations, cultural mores and the region’s international image were forever changed by its pivotal role in the war effort. The chapters in this volume respond to the need for information and analysis on the wide-ranging impact of the war on territories in the region (English, French, Spanish and Dutch). The contributors cover topics such as the economic consequences of wartime activity (the food crisis and the decline of the agricultural sector), while highlighting the opportunities that arose for industry and enterprise in the Caribbean; the accommodations made by the European imperial nations and their attempts to tighten control over their Caribbean territories during the war; the intervention of the Americans in the region; the social impact of the war (the migration of German-speaking refugees and other groups) and the effects on Caribbean societies of this contact; and the impact of the war on public health and the broad spectrum experiences of women (as volunteers, nurses and sex-workers).This well-researched volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of military and conflict history, twentieth-century Caribbean history, and the general reader.
£36.71
University of the West Indies Press World War II Camps in Jamaica: Evacuees, Refugees, Internees, Prisoners of War
Book SynopsisBetween 1939 and 1947, the Caribbean island of Jamaica – then a British colony – was haven or detention centre for thousands of displaced Europeans; an often under-recognized contribution to the Allied war effort. A civilian camp accommodated evacuees from Gibraltar and, belatedly, provided sanctuary for groups of mainly Jewish refugees. Others who had fled Europe ahead of looming fascist threats would be interned in military detention camps whose populations were swollen by German and Italian civilians from several British West African colonies, co-mingled for convenience with hundreds of German and Italian merchant mariners captured at sea during the early months of the war.World War II Camps in Jamaica disentangles the conditions under which these various populations were held, drawing on primary records, personal accounts and media coverage; noting differences and similarities in their management; considering the camps and their populations within the local context; and considering the extent of interface and interaction that ensued despite official efforts to keep the incoming populations separate and transitory.
£28.46
NUS Press The Comfort Women of Singapore in History and
Book SynopsisA balanced, sensitive study of the history of comfort women in Singapore during World War II. “Comfort women” or ianfu is the euphemism used by the Japanese military for the women they compelled to do sex work in the Second World War, and has become the term generally used in English to discuss the subject. The role of comfort women in the Japanese empire during World War II remains an important and emotional topic around the world. Most scholarship concentrates on Korean comfort women, with less on their counterparts in Japan, China, and Taiwan, and even less on Southeast Asia. That gap persists despite widespread knowledge of the elaborate series of comfort stations, or comfort houses, that were organized by the Japanese administration across Singapore during the Occupation from 1942 to 1945. So why, the author asks, did no former comfort women from Singapore come forward and tell their stories when others across Asia began to do publicly in the 1990s? To understand this silence, this book offers a detailed examination of the sex industry serving the Japanese military during the wartime occupation of Singapore: the comfort stations, managers, procuresses, girls, and women who either volunteered or were forced into service and in many cases sexual slavery. Kevin Blackburn then turns from history to the public presence of the comfort women in Singapore’s memory, including newspapers, novels, plays, television, and touristic heritage sites, showing how comfort women became known in Singapore during the 1990s and 2000s. Bringing great care, balance, and sensitivity to a difficult subject, Blackburn helps to fill an important gap in our understanding of this period.Table of Contents Introduction 1. Lee Kuan Yew and Masculinist Memories of the Comfort Women 2. The Role of the Women of Singapore in the Sex Industry of the Japanese Military 3. Inside the Comfort Stations of Singapore 4. Korean and Indonesian Comfort Women in Singapore 5. The Comfort Women Returning to Live in Postwar Society 6. The Silence of the Local Comfort Women of Singapore 7. The Comfort Women of Singapore as 'Dark Heritage' Conclusion Bibliography Endnotes
£23.76
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies Japanese-Trained Armies in Southeast Asia
Book SynopsisThis is the first study by a Western scholar of a significant facet of the history of the Second World War - Japanese-trained independence and volunteer armies as agents of revolution and modernisation. At the time, the Japanese did not see that their military imprinting would affect a whole generation of political/military leadership of nations of post-Second World War Southeast Asia. Leaders like Suharto, Ne Win and Park are all products of Japanese military training.
£33.96
NUS Press World War II Singapore: The Chosabu Reports on
Book SynopsisFor forty-four months during World War II, the Japanese occupied Singapore, renaming it Syonan and setting out to drastically change life on the island. As part of the occupation, the Japanese created a research bureau, the Chosabu, to study occupied Singapore. The bureau’s detailed reports on the economy covered prices, wages, currency, rationing, living standards, food production, and industrialization. Syonan’s military and civilian administrators drew on them when formulating social and economic policies.The reports were notoriously difficult to read, and so this exceptional translation by Gregg Huff and Shinobu Majima is a true linguistic accomplishment. These records are an invaluable record of life during this tumultuous period and are especially important as the Japanese destroyed most records of their wartime administration, leaving the Chosabu reports as one of the few first-hand sources to have survived. Introductory chapters by the editors position the reports against wartime events in Singapore and examine the careers of the Chosabu authors and the places they occupy in the history of Japanese economic thought.
£44.20
NUS Press New Perspectives on the Japanese Occupation in
Book SynopsisInformation on the Japanese Occupation of Malaya and Singapore is sparse, and Japanese-language materials are particularly difficult to find because the Japanese military systematically destroyed war-related documents when the war ended. The contributors to this volume participated in a Forum that spent four years locating surviving materials relating to the Occupation of Malaya. The group had three objectives: to collect primary sources, to interview Japanese military and civilian officials who took part in the military administration and people in Malaysia and Singapore who experienced the period, and to publish the results of the studies.Based on interviews with Japanese, Malaysians and Singaporeans who lived through the war years and materials gathered from archives and libraries in Britain, Malaysia, Singapore, USA, Australia, and India, the Forum has produced a number of Japanese-language publications. This book makes available some of their research findings in English. Topics covered include the Watanabe Military Administration, Japanese research activities in Malaya, Japan's Economic Policies, Malayan Communist Party Leaders and the Anti-Japanese Resistance, the Massacre of Chinese in Singapore, Railway Transportation during the Japanese Occupation Period, The Singapore Internment Camp for Allied Civilian Women, and the Japanese Surrender. This volume is a revised version of ""Akashi Yoji, ed., Nippon Senryoka no Eiryo Maraya/Shingaporu"" (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten Publishers Co., 2001).
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NUS Press Playing for Malaya: A Euroasian Family and the
Book SynopsisReggie, according to his niece Wendy, 'only told what Reggie wanted you to know.' Reggie was my father. He had honed the technique of talking with apparent openness and using that talk as a decoy duck: while you were listening to it quack around the pond, you weren't noticing all the others hiding in the reeds. What follows includes tales that Reggie told repeatedly but, on the whole, it's about what Reggie didn't tell me. So begins a stunning personal account of a Eurasian family living in Malaya. Reggie was the author's father, and one of the many gaps in his account of his family was that his mother was Eurasian. When Rebecca Kenneison discovered this omission after his death, she set out to learn more about her extended family on the other side of the world.Playing for Malaya has a much larger purpose. Set in the 1930s and 1940s, it recounts the experiences of an extended Eurasian family during the invasion and occupation of Malaya by the Japanese. Colonial society considered Eurasians insufficiently European to be treated as British, but during the Pacific War they seemed all too European to the Japanese, who subjected the Eurasian community to discrimination and worse. Because many Eurasians, including members of the Kenneison family, supported the Allied cause, their wartime experiences are an extraordinary account of tragedy, heroism and endurance, presented here with great eloquence and clarity.
£23.36
Woodfield Publishing Baggy Pants and Warm Beer: 504 Parachute Regiment of the US 82nd Airborne Division in Leicestershire UK, 1944
£17.59
Woodfield Publishing Wings without Weapons: Memoirs of a Ferry Pilot with RAF Transport Command in Africa, the Middle East and India During World War 2
£15.61
Woodfield Publishing Blitz Boy: Testament of an Evacuee
£17.59
Woodfield Publishing Coastal Command Pilot 1939-1945
£17.59
Woodfield Publishing To Strive and Not to Yield
£18.58
Woodfield Publishing Nobody Unprepared: The History of No 78 Squadron RAF
£19.57
Woodfield Publishing Hunt Like a Tiger: An Illustrated History of 230 Squadron RAF 1939-45
£19.57
Woodfield Publishing An Erk's Eye View of WW2: An Airman's Recollections of RAF Elsham Wolds During World War Two
£17.59
Woodfield Publishing From One to One Thousand Horsepower: How a Scottish Cavalryman Became a WW2 Fighter Pilot
£18.58
Aviation Books Ltd. A Stirling Effort: Short Stirling Operations at RAF Downham Market 1942-44
£23.75
Aviation Books Ltd. Callsign:Silksheen: RAF East Kirkby in Peace and War
£31.56
Magic Flute Publishing Ltd Wartime Wolverton
£11.35
Magic Flute Publishing Ltd Olney in World War Two
£10.13
Aviation Books Ltd. Scotland's Wartime Aircraft Crashes: Volume 1: 1939 - 1942
£22.00
Aviation Books Ltd. Scotland's Wartime Aircraft Crashes: Volume 2: 1943 - 1945
£22.00
Aviation Books Ltd. 12 Squadron
£23.00
Aviation Books Ltd. Bomber Command Losses 1943
£21.85
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Lo que escondían sus ojos / What Her Eyes Were
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£15.10
Atico de Los Libros Auge de Alemania, El
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£23.46
Almuzara Eso No Estaba En Mi Libro del Tercer Reich
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£20.61
CIENCIA DEL PECADO LA
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£27.53
Anagrama El Nazi Perfecto: El Descubrimiento del Secreto
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£23.64
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial La guerra no tiene rostro de mujer / The
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Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Últimos testigos: Los niños de la segunda guerra
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£19.91
Hiroshima Spanish Edition
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£12.40
Castalia Ediciones Campo Francés
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£19.71
Nowtilus Breve Historia de La Segunda Guerra Mundial
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£17.92
Nowtilus Historias Asombrosas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial
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£26.00
Ediciones Robinbook Criminales Nazis del Exterminio
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