Second World War

The 11th SS Freiwilligen (Volunteer) Panzergrenadier Division Nordland was formed in 1943. Despite what the name indicated, this was not an all...

By the 1970s, World War II had all but disappeared from US popular culture. But beginning in the mid-eighties it reemerged with a vengeance, and fo...

Nearly thirty years ago, Monika Vrzgulová took part in the very first oral history research project aimed at Holocaust survivors in Slovakia. That ...

I'm Staying with My Boys is a firsthand look inside the life of one of the greatest heroes of the Greatest Generation. Sgt. John Basilone held off ...

This book examines the experiences of refugees who populated the Displaced Persons (DP) camps in the British Zone of Allied-occupied Germany after ...

A History of Modern Germany is a well-established text that presents a balanced survey of the last 150 years of German history, stretching from nin...

This book introduces an English-speaking public to the life of Madeleine Riffaud one of the last living leaders of the French Resistance. It consi...

With three Military Crosses, three Croix de guerre, a Légion d'honneur and a papal knighthood for his heroics during the Second World War, Sir Tomm...

This book describes and analyzes the history of the Mediterranean Double-Cross System of the Second World War, an intelligence operation run primar...

Over the past four decades, East and Southeast Asia have seen a proliferation of heritage sites and remembrance practices which commemorate the reg...

Originally published in 1988, The Burden of German History 1919-45 examines the vast literature surrounding Weimar years and the National Socialist...

First published in 1997, this volume responds to attention in recent years which has been belatedly directed towards reviving World War II issues i...

Crucible of a Generation tells the story of the fifteen days surrounding the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor through the pages of eight leading Ame...

Daniel Goldhagen's study of the Holocaust offers conclusions that run directly counter to those reached by Christopher Browning, whose book Ordinar...

The Nazi regime in Germany was terrible enough without even accounting for the policy of collaboration. So what extra does collaboration say about ...

This is the first book to focus on Helhesten (The Hell-Horse), an avant-garde artists collective active during the Nazi occupation of Denmark and o...

This book is about the role played by architects, engineers and planners in transforming France during the three post-war decades of growing prospe...

This book deals with the Second World War in Southeastern Europe from the perspective of conditions on the ground during the conflict. The focus is...