"Based on original research in German, French, Czech, Polish, and American archives ... The lost children ... brings together the histories of eastern and western Europe, and traces the effort of everyone -- from Jewish Holocaust survivors to German refugees, from Communist offi…
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"This is a magisterial new account of Europe's tragic descent into a largely inadvertent war in the summer of 1914. Thomas Otte reveals why a century-old system of Great Power politics collapsed so disastrously in the weeks from the 'shot heard around the world' on June 28th to …
Chapel Street was a row of old Georgian terraced lodging houses in Altrincham, home to some 400 Anglo-Irish lodgers. From this tight-knit community, 161 men from 60 houses volunteered for the First World War. King George V called it the 'the bravest little street in England'. Th…
Grappling with the Bomb is a history of Britain's 1950s program to test the hydrogen bomb, code name Operation Grapple. In 1957-58, nine atmospheric nuclear tests were held at Malden Island and Christmas Island--today, part of the Pacific nation of Kiribati. Nearly 14,000 troops…
Why, having stood up for and held their own place in a once absolutely male world, have women not stood up for their history? Their words and feelings? A whole world is hidden from us. Their war remains unknown... I want to write the history of that war. A women's history." In t…
'There are no stupid questions, nor any forbidden ones, but there are some questions that have no answer.' Hédi Fried was 19 when the Nazis snatched her family from their home in Eastern Europe and transported them to Auschwitz, where her parents were murdered and she and her si…
The Cambridge history of the Second World War
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The conflict that ended in 1945 is often described as a 'total war', unprecedented in scale and character. Volume 3 adopts a transnational approach to offer a comprehensive and global analysis of the war as an economic, social, and cultural event.
"Immediately after the Second World War, the victorious Allies authorized and helped to carry out the forced relocation of German speakers from their homes across central and southern Europe to Germany. The numbers were almost unimaginable--between 12,000,000 and 14,000,000 civi…
Of one-and-a-half-million surviving photographs related to Nazi concentration camps, only four depict the actual process of mass killing perpetrated at the gas chambers. The author's relentless consideration of these harrowing scenes demonstrates how Holocaust testimony can shif…
This record of incredible developments in bomber technology spans over a century of innovation. It covers the major conflicts in which bombers have been used, World War bombers from 1914-1945, and modern jet bombers.
This record of incredible developments in bomber technology spans over a century of innovation. It covers the major conflicts in which bombers have been used, World War bombers from 1914-1945, and modern jet bombers.
One might be forgiven for assuming that by 1918, the country had become virtually denuded of civilian men and particularly of middle-class men who - or so it seems - volunteered en masse in the early months of war. In fact, the majority of middle-class (and other) men did not en…
This work provides a comprehensive history of the shaping and performance of the British army during the First World War.
New Zealand's First World War Heritage
by Bargas, Imelda, Bargas, Imelda
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The living history of the NZ home front in WWI is bought alive here with vivid words, photographs and maps showing military bases, internment camps, railway lines, brothels, factories memorials and more. Much can be seen and visited today. This book shows the enormous and contin…
"From blind dates to whirlwind romances to long separations, War Bonds highlights stories of couples who met or married during World War II. Each of the 30 stories begins with a WWII-era song title and concludes with a look at wartime couples in their twilight, as well as when t…