Prior to and during the Second World War, the Japanese Army established programs of biological warfare throughout China and elsewhere. In these "factories of death," including the now-infamous Unit 731, Japanese doctors and scientists conducted large numbers of vivisections and …
Prior to and during the Second World War, the Japanese Army established programs of biological warfare throughout China and elsewhere. In these "factories of death," including the now-infamous Unit 731, Japanese doctors and scientists conducted large numbers of vivisections and …
"British propaganda brought America to the brink of war, and left it to the Japanese and Hitler to finish the job." So concludes Nicholas Cull in this absorbing study of how the United States was transformed from isolation to belligerence in the years before the attack on Pearl …
In wartime Japan's bid for conquest, humanity suffered through one of its darkest hours, as a hidden genocide took the lives of hundreds of thousands of innocent people. Cloaked in secrecy and protected under the banner of scientific study, the best and brightest of Japan's medi…
In wartime Japan's bid for conquest, humanity suffered through one of its darkest hours, as a hidden genocide took the lives of hundreds of thousands of innocent people. Cloaked in secrecy and protected under the banner of scientific study, the best and brightest of Japan's medi…
"Judgment without trial" reveals that long before the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. government began making plans for the eventual internment and later incarceration of the Japanese American population. Tetsuden Kashima uses newly obtained records to trace this process b…
Manpower and the Armies of the British Empire in the Two World Wars
by Roy, Kaushik, Sheffield, Gary, McGibbon, Ian, Grayson, Richard S., Frost, Mark, Fennell, Jonathan, Newlands, Emma, Waag, Ian van der, Delaney, Douglas E., Meyer, Jessica, Fedorowich, Kent, Bartrop, Paul R., Booth, Charles, Bou, Jean, Brown, Andrew L., Byers, Daniel, Fitzpatrick, Meghan, Sarty, Roger
In the first and only examination of how the British Empire and Commonwealth sustained its soldiers before, during, and after both World Wars, a cast of leading military historians explores how the empire mobilized manpower to recruit workers, care for veterans, and transform fa…
Manpower and the Armies of the British Empire in the Two World Wars
by Roy, Kaushik, Sheffield, Gary, McGibbon, Ian, Grayson, Richard S., Frost, Mark, Fennell, Jonathan, Newlands, Emma, Waag, Ian van der, Delaney, Douglas E., Meyer, Jessica, Fedorowich, Kent, Bartrop, Paul R., Booth, Charles, Bou, Jean, Brown, Andrew L., Byers, Daniel, Fitzpatrick, Meghan, Sarty, Roger
In the first and only examination of how the British Empire and Commonwealth sustained its soldiers before, during, and after both World Wars, a cast of leading military historians explores how the empire mobilized manpower to recruit workers, care for veterans, and transform fa…
Describes the prosecution of Nazi war criminals in the Soviet Zone of occupation and in the GDR, commenting that the number of actual war criminals was small in proportion to those suspected of opposing the communist regime. Soon the GDR declared that it had completed the purge …
"On Christmas Day 1941 the Japanese captured Hong Kong, and Britain lost control of its Chinese colony for almost four years. The Japanese occupation was a turning point in the slow historical process by which the British were to be expelled from the colony and from four centuri…
A portrayal of how and why Japan waged war from 1931-1945 and what life was like for the Japanese people in a society engaged in total war. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Discusses the paradoxical use of positive law during the advent of the Nuremberg trials over sixty years ago, asserting that natural law should have been utilized instead.