World War II: the Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension – serie
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Fighting Fascism in Europe
The World War II Letters of an American Veteran of the Spanish Civil War
Av Lawrence Cane, David E. Cane m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
591 kr
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On his first day in basic training in 1942, Lawrence Cane wrote his wife Grace from Fort Dix, New Jersey. "I'm in the army now?really!" he wrote, complaining, "I don't have enough time to write a decent letter." Three years later, Capt. Lawrence Cane went home from World War II. He'd landed at Utah …
Army GI, Pacifist CO
The World War II Letters of Frank Dietrich and Albert Dietrich
Av Frank Dietrich, Albert Dietrich m. fl.
Inbunden, 2005
645 kr
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Frank and Albert Dietrich were identical twins whose lives took very different directions during World War II. Drafted into the Army Air Corps and trained as a radio operator, Frank was shipped to the Philippines in 1945, where as a sergeant in the Fifth Air Force he prepared for the invasion of …
Beachhead Don
Reporting the War from the European Theater: 1942-1945
Av Don Whitehead, John B. Romeiser
Inbunden, 2004
761 kr
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Winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, Don Whitehead delivered battlefield dispatches that were classics of frontline reporting. One of the legendary reporters of World War II, Whitehead covered almost every important Allied invasion and campaign in Europe-from landings in Sicily, Salerno, and Anzio on the …
Going to War with Japan, 1937-1941
With a New Introduction
Häftad, 2005
442 kr
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How did Japan and the United States end up at waron December 7, 1941? What American decisions mighthave provoked the Japanese decision to attack Pearl Harbor?In this classic study of the run up to World War II, Utleyexamines the ways domestic politics shaped America'sresponse to Japanese moves in …
America's Japan
The First Year, 1945–1946
Inbunden, 2005
471 kr
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One of the few non-Japanese Americans trained to read, write, and speak Japanese, Princeton undergraduate Grant Goodman had a privileged position during World War II. As an Army lieutenant, Goodman served in the Philippines at the close of the war and in Tokyo as an intelligence officer on General …
"I Must Be a Part of This War"
A German American's Fight Against Hitler and Nazism
Inbunden, 2005
529 kr
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Kurt Frank Korf's story is one of the most unusual to come out of World War II. Although German-Americans were America's largest ethnic group, and German-Americans—including thousands of native-born Germans—fought bravely in all theaters, there are few full first-person accounts by German- …
France During World War II
From Defeat to Liberation
Av Thomas R. Christofferson, Michael S. Christofferson
Inbunden, 2006
1153 kr
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In this concise, clearly written book, Thomas and Michael Christofferson provide a balanced introduction to every aspect of the French experience during World War II.Synthesizing a wide range of scholarship, the authors integrate political, diplomatic, military, social, cultural, and economic …
France During World War II
From Defeat to Liberation
Av Thomas R. Christofferson, Michael S. Christofferson
Häftad, 2006
486 kr
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In this concise, clearly written book, Thomas and Michael Christofferson provide a balanced introduction to every aspect of the French experience during World War II.Synthesizing a wide range of scholarship, the authors integrate political, diplomatic, military, social, cultural, and economic …
American Heroine in the French Resistance
The Diary and Memoir of Virginia D'Albert-Lake
Inbunden, 2006
1398 kr
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This fascinating book tells the remarkable story of an ordinary American woman's heroism in the French Resistance. Virginia Roush fell in love with Philippe d'Albert-Lake during a visit to France in 1936; they married soon after. In 1943, they both joined the Resistance, where Virginia put her life …
American Heroine in the French Resistance
The Diary and Memoir of Virginia D'Albert-Lake
Häftad, 2008
501 kr
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This fascinating book tells the remarkable story of an ordinary American woman's heroism in the French Resistance. Virginia Roush fell in love with Philippe d'Albert-Lake during a visit to France in 1936; they married soon after. In 1943, they both joined the Resistance, where Virginia put her life …
Latvia in World War II
Inbunden, 2006
1139 kr
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Valdis Lumans provides an authoritative, balanced, and comprehensive account of one of the most complex, and conflicted, arenas of the Second World War. Struggling against both Germany and the Soviet Union, Latvia emerged as an independent nation state after the First World War. In 1940, the …
Combat Reporter
Don Whitehead's World War II Diary and Memoirs
Av Don Whitehead, John B. Romeiser
Inbunden, 2006
591 kr
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"No one bore witness better than Don Whitehead . . . this volume, deftly combining his diary and a previously unpublished memoir, brings Whitehead and his reporting back to life, and 21st-century readers are the richer for it."—from the Foreword, by Rick AtkinsonWinner of two Pulitzer Prizes, Don …
General and His Daughter
The War Time Letters of General James M. Gavin to His Daughter Barbara
Av Barbara Gavin Fauntleroy, Gayle Wurst
Inbunden, 2007
591 kr
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James Maurice Gavin left for war in April 1943 as a colonel commanding the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division—America's first airborne division and the first to fight in World War II. In 1944, "Slim Jim" Gavin, as he was known to his troops, at the age of thirty-seven …
Voices of My Comrades
America's Reserve Officers Remember World War II
Av Carol Adele Kelly, Carol Adele Kelly
Inbunden, 2007
718 kr
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Over the course of five years, the Reserve Officers Association of the United States—the nation's oldest such professional military organization—invited its members to write about their experiences in World War II. The response was an impressive outpouring of memories, now compiled here in an …
Jack Toffey's War
A Son's Memoir
Inbunden, 2008
591 kr
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"I see this book as the story my father never got to tell," John Toffey writes. And what a remarkable story it is that Lt. Col. Jack Toffey never got to tell.In this moving account of a young man's journey to know a father who went to war in 1942 and never came back, John Toffey weaves memory, …
Letters to Lee
From Pearl Harbor to the War's Final Mission
Av James V. Edmundson, Celia Edmundson
Inbunden, 2009
665 kr
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In his 36 years of military service, Lt. General James V. Edmundson had extensive experience in combat operations and command at every level in the Air Force. He had over 10,000 hours of pilot time in 137 types of airplanes. In addition to the 107 combat missions in World War II, he led 32 combat …
United States and the Second World War
New Perspectives on Diplomacy, War, and the Home Front
Av G. Kurt Piehler, Sidney Pash
Inbunden, 2010
979 kr
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In this compelling book, G. Kurt Piehler and Sidney Pash bring together a collection of essays offering a fresh examination of American participation in the Second World War, including a long overdue reconsideration of such seminal topics as the forces leading the United States to enter World War …
Diary of Prisoner 17326
A Boy's Life in a Japanese Labor Camp
Häftad, 2012
411 kr
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In this moving memoir a young man comes of age in an age of violence, brutality, and war. Recounting his experiences during the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies, this account brings to life the shocking day-to-day conditions in a Japanese labor camp and provides an intimate look at the …
Between the Bylines
A Father's Legacy
Inbunden, 2011
656 kr
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Thoburn H. "Toby" Wiant was a fighter from an early age, and words were his weapons of choice. During World War II, he fought to scoop stories from rival reporters on the front lines as an Associated Press war correspondent. In chronicling the war from the China-Burma-India and European theaters of …
Hungary in World War II
Caught in the Cauldron
Inbunden, 2011
1226 kr
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The story of Hungary's participation in World War II is part of a much larger narrative—one that has never before been fully recounted for a non-Hungarian readership. As told by Deborah Cornelius, it is a fascinating tale of rise and fall, of hopes dashed and dreams in tatters. Using previously …
Hungary in World War II
Caught in the Cauldron
Häftad, 2011
416 kr
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The story of Hungary's participation in World War II is part of a much larger narrative—one that has never before been fully recounted for a non-Hungarian readership. As told by Deborah Cornelius, it is a fascinating tale of rise and fall, of hopes dashed and dreams in tatters. Using previously …
Süssen Is Now Free of Jews
World War II, the Holocaust, and Rural Judaism
Inbunden, 2012
912 kr
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Süssen Is Now Free of Jews offers a close look at the legacy of a few Jewish families from Süssen—a village in the District of Göppingen, which is located in the state of Baden Württemberg in southern Germany. The author, Gilya Gerda Schmidt, looks at this rural region through the lens of two …
Pact with Vichy
Angelo Tasca from Italian Socialism to French Collaboration
Av Emanuel Rota
Inbunden, 2012
1188 kr
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Angelo Tasca, a pivotal figure in 20th-century Italian political history, and indeed European history, is frequently overshadowed by his Fascist opponent Mussolini or his Socialist and Communist colleagues (Gramsci and Togliatti). Yet, as Emanuel Rota reveals in this captivating biography, …
United States and the Second World War
New Perspectives on Diplomacy, War, and the Home Front
Av G. Kurt Piehler, Sidney Pash
Häftad, 2013
457 kr
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In this compelling book, G. Kurt Piehler and Sidney Pash bring together a collection of essays offering a fresh examination of American participation in the Second World War, including a long overdue reconsideration of such seminal topics as the forces leading the United States to enter World War …
Pact with Vichy
Angelo Tasca from Italian Socialism to French Collaboration
Av Emanuel Rota
Häftad, 2015
345 kr
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Angelo Tasca, a pivotal figure in 20th-century Italian political history, and indeed European history, is frequently overshadowed by his Fascist opponent Mussolini or his Socialist and Communist colleagues (Gramsci and Togliatti). Yet, as Emanuel Rota reveals in this captivating biography, …
Chasing Ghosts
A Memoir of a Father, Gone to War
Häftad, 2015
318 kr
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When literary biographer and memoirist Louise DeSalvo embarked upon a journey to learn why her father came home from World War II a changed man, she didn't realize her quest would take ten years, and that it would yield more revelations about the man—and herself—and the effect of his military …
Red Tail Captured, Red Tail Free
Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman and POW, Revised Edition
Inbunden, 2017
437 kr
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Red Tail Captured, Red Tail Free is a rare gift detailing the experience of Lt. Col. Alexander Jefferson, who was one of 32 Tuskegee Airmen from the 332nd Fighter Group to be shot down defending a country that considered them to be second-class citizens. In this vividly detailed, deeply personal …
War Pictures
Cinema, Violence, and Style in Britain, 1939-1945
Av Kent Puckett
Inbunden, 2017
1785 kr
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In this original and engaging work, author Kent Puckett looks at how British filmmakers imagined, saw, and sought to represent its war during wartime through film. The Second World War posed unique representational challenges to Britain's filmmakers. Because of its logistical enormity, the …
War Pictures
Cinema, Violence, and Style in Britain, 1939-1945
Av Kent Puckett
Häftad, 2017
452 kr
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In this original and engaging work, author Kent Puckett looks at how British filmmakers imagined, saw, and sought to represent its war during wartime through film. The Second World War posed unique representational challenges to Britain's filmmakers. Because of its logistical enormity, the …
Allied Encounters
The Gendered Redemption of World War II Italy
Häftad, 2019
543 kr
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Honorable Mention for the 2019 American Association for Italian American Book Prize (20-21st Centuries)Allied Encounters uniquely explores Anglo-American and Italian literary, cinematic, and military representations of World War II Italy in order to trace, critique, and move beyond the gendered …
