| |
This is not a book about Winston Churchill. It is not principally about his politics, nor his rhetorical imagination, nor even about the man himself. Instead, it addresses the varied afterlives of the man and the persistent, deeply located compulsion to bring him back...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-08-14
PDF
|
From the late 1930s until December 7, 1941, isolationism and an antipathy toward war in Europe were strong political currents in the US. However, once the US entered World War II, the entire apparatus of the US government was mobilized to “market” the war to Americans...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2020-06-10
PDF, ePub
|
A stirring narrative of World War II's final major battle—the Pacific war's largest, bloodiest, most savagely fought campaign—the last of its kind. On Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945, more than 184,000 US troops began landing on the only Japanese home...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2020-03-03
ePub
|
The astonishing untold story of the WWII airmen who risked it all in the deadly race to become the greatest American fighter pilot.In 1942, America's deadliest fighter pilot, or "ace of aces" -- the legendary Eddie Rickenbacker -- offered a bottle of bourbon to the...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2020-01-14
ePub
|
On a moonless night in January 1991, a dozen U.S. aircraft appeared in the skies over Baghdad. To the Iraqi air defenses, the planes seemed to come from nowhere. Their angular shape, making them look like flying origami, rendered them virtually undetectable. Each...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-12-30
PDF, ePub
|
While armies have seized enemy records and rare texts as booty throughout history, it was only during World War II that an unlikely band of librarians, archivists, and scholars traveled abroad to collect books and documents to aid the military cause. Galvanized by the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-12-02
PDF, ePub
|
This groundbreaking book explores the interpretative potential and analytical capacity of the concept ‘fascist warfare’. Was there a specific type of war waged by fascist states? The concept encompasses not only the practice of violence at the front, but also war...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-26
PDF, ePub
|
This book investigates the complexities of modern urban operations—a particularly difficult and costly method of fighting, and one that is on the rise. Contributors examine the lessons that emerge from a range of historical case studies, from nineteenth-century...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-21
PDF, ePub
|
Lives Reclaimed tells an extraordinary story of resistance against the Nazi regime and help for Jews in the Third Reich. Still largely unknown today, 'The Bund' were a small left-wing group based in Germany's industrial heartland. Initially preoccupied with surviving...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-09-26
PDF, ePub
|
Hailed as "masterly" (Wall Street Journal) and a "monumental achievement" (Douglas Brinkley), this book tells the riveting, true story of the group of elite US and Canadian soldiers who sacrificed everything to accomplish a crucial but nearly...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2019-09-03
ePub
|
The full story of the first and only time American and Soviets fought side-by-side in World War II
At the conference held in in Moscow in October 1943, American officials proposed to their Soviet allies a new operation in the effort to defeat Nazi Germany.The Normandy...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-09-02
PDF, ePub
|
Books Across Borders: UNESCO and the Politics of Postwar Cultural Reconstruction, 1945-1951 is a history of the emotional, ideological, informational, and technical power and meaning of books and libraries in the aftermath of World War II, examined through the cultural...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-19
Collection :
New Directions in Book History
PDF, ePub
|
The fate of towns and cities stands at the center of the environmental history of World War II. Broad swaths of cityscapes were destroyed by the bombing of targets such as transport hubs, electrical grids, and industrial districts, and across Europe, Asia, and the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-05-27
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History
PDF, ePub
|
Now an Audible Original "THE DEAD DRINK FIRST"Sergeant Steve Maharidge returned from World War II an angry man. For a long time, the only evidence that remained of his service in the Marines was a photograph of himself and a buddy that he tacked to the basement wall....
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2019-05-21
ePub
|
This book provides the first ever intelligence history of Iraq from 1941 to 1945, and is the third and final volume of a trilogy on regional intelligence and counterintelligence operations that includes Nazi Secret Warfare in Occupied Persia (Iran) (2014), and Espionage...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-05-06
PDF, ePub
|
This handbook explores a diverse range of artistic and cultural responses to modern conflict, from Mons in the First World War to Kabul in the twenty-first century. With over thirty chapters from an international range of contributors, ranging from the UK to the US and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-05
PDF, ePub
|
The broadcast that George VI made to the nation on the outbreak of war in September 1939 - which formed the climax of the multi Oscar-winning filmThe King's Speech - was the product of years of hard work with Lionel Logue, his iconoclastic Australian-born speech...
Editeur :
Quercus
Parution :
2018-11-01
ePub
|
The justification for the atomic bomb was simple: it would defeat Hitler and end the Second World War faster, saving lives.The reality was different.Fallout dismantles the conventional story of why the atom bomb was built. Peter Watson has found new documents showing...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2018-09-18
ePub
|
By early 1943, it had become increasingly clear that the Allies would win the Second World War. Around the same time, it also became increasingly clear to many Christian intellectuals on both sides of the Atlantic that the soon-to-be-victorious nations were not...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-07-02
PDF, ePub
|
This volume demonstrates how German expansion in the Second World War II led to shortages, of food and other necessities including medicine, for the occupied populations, causing many to die from severe hunger or starvation. While the various chapters look at a range of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-06-22
PDF, ePub
|