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End of Violence
France and the Single Struggle of Jacques De Bollardière
Inbunden, 2026
766 kr
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The End of Violence focuses on General Jacques Pâris de Bollardière, who transformed from a rising star in the French army into a stalwart of nonviolence. In 1957, de Bollardière abruptly left his command in Algeria out of a refusal to countenance torture, publicly denouncing this paradigmatic war …
German Blood, Slavic Soil
How Nazi Königsberg Became Soviet Kaliningrad
Av Nicole Eaton
Inbunden, 2023
412 kr
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Winner of the Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in HistoryGerman Blood, Slavic Soil reveals how Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, twentieth-century Europe's two most violent revolutionary regimes, transformed a single city and the people who lived there. During World War II, this single city became an …
Dragonslayer
The Legend of Erich Ludendorff in the Weimar Republic and Third Reich
Inbunden, 2021
395 kr
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In this fascinating biography of the infamous ideologue Erich Ludendorff, Jay Lockenour complicates the classic depiction of this German World War I hero. Erich Ludendorff created for himself a persona that secured his place as one of the most prominent (and despicable) Germans of the twentieth …
Flying Camelot
The F-15, the F-16, and the Weaponization of Fighter Pilot Nostalgia
Inbunden, 2021
373 kr
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Winner of the Gardner-Lasser Aerospace History Literature AwardFlying Camelot brings us back to the post-Vietnam era, when the US Air Force launched two new, state-of-the art fighter aircraft: the F-15 Eagle and the F-16 Fighting Falcon.It was an era when debates about aircraft superiority went …
Sexual Economy of War
Discipline and Desire in the U.S. Army
Av Andrew Byers
Inbunden, 2019
591 kr
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In The Sexual Economy of War, Andrew Byers argues that in the early twentieth century, concerns about unregulated sexuality affected every aspect of how the US Army conducted military operations. Far from being an exercise marginal to the institution and its scope of operations, governing sexuality …
Stuff of Soldiers
A History of the Red Army in World War II Through Objects
Inbunden, 2019
421 kr
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The Stuff of Soldiers uses everyday objects to tell the story of the Great Patriotic War as never before. Brandon M. Schechter attends to a diverse array of things-from spoons to tanks-to show how a wide array of citizens became soldiers, and how the provisioning of material goods separated …
Comrades Betrayed
Jewish World War I Veterans Under Hitler
Inbunden, 2020
403 kr
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At the end of 1941, six weeks after the mass deportations of Jews from Nazi Germany had begun, Gestapo offices across the Reich received an urgent telex from Adolf Eichmann, decreeing that all war-wounded and decorated Jewish veterans of World War I be exempted from upcoming "evacuations." Why this …
Drunk on Genocide
Alcohol and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany
Inbunden, 2021
385 kr
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In Drunk on Genocide, Edward B. Westermann reveals how, over the course of the Third Reich, scenes involving alcohol consumption and revelry among the SS and police became a routine part of rituals of humiliation in the camps, ghettos, and killing fields of Eastern Europe. Westermann draws on a …
Prevail Until the Bitter End
Germans in the Waning Years of World War II
Inbunden, 2021
357 kr
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In Prevail until the Bitter End, Alexandra Lohse explores the gossip and innuendo, the dissonant reactions and perceptions of Germans to the violent dissolution of the Third Reich. Mobilized for total war, soldiers and citizens alike experienced an unprecedented convergence of military, economic, …
Romania's Holy War
Soldiers, Motivation, and the Holocaust
Inbunden, 2021
605 kr
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Romania's Holy War rights the widespread myth that Romania was a reluctant member of the Axis during World War II. In correcting this fallacy, Grant T. Harward shows that, of an estimated 300,000 Jews who perished in Romania and Romanian-occupied Ukraine, more than 64,000 were, in fact, killed by …
Virtuous Wehrmacht
Crafting the Myth of the German Soldier on the Eastern Front, 1941-1944
Inbunden, 2021
390 kr
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The Virtuous Wehrmacht explores the myth of the German armed forces' innocence during World War II by reconstructing the moral world of German soldiers on the Eastern Front. How did they avoid feelings of guilt about the many atrocities their side committed? David A. Harrisville compellingly …
Return to the Motherland
Displaced Soviets in WWII and the Cold War
Inbunden, 2023
635 kr
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Return to the Motherland follows those who were displaced to the Third Reich back to the Soviet Union after the victory over Germany. At the end of World War II, millions of people from Soviet lands were living as refugees outside the borders of the USSR. Most had been forced laborers and prisoners …
Stuff of Soldiers
A History of the Red Army in World War II Through Objects
Häftad, 2023
401 kr
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The Stuff of Soldiers uses everyday objects to tell the story of the Great Patriotic War as never before. Brandon M. Schechter attends to a diverse array of things-from spoons to tanks-to show how a wide array of citizens became soldiers, and how the provisioning of material goods separated …
Holding Their Breath
How the Allies Confronted the Threat of Chemical Warfare in World War II
Inbunden, 2023
1700 kr
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Holding Their Breath uncovers just how close Britain, the United States, and Canada came to crossing the red line that restrained chemical weapon use during World War II. Unlike in World War I, belligerents did not release poison gas regularly during the Second World War. Yet, the looming threat of …
Drunk on Genocide
Alcohol and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany
Häftad, 2023
255 kr
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In Drunk on Genocide, Edward B. Westermann reveals how, over the course of the Third Reich, scenes involving alcohol consumption and revelry among the SS and police became a routine part of rituals of humiliation in the camps, ghettos, and killing fields of Eastern Europe. Westermann draws on a …
Holding Their Breath
How the Allies Confronted the Threat of Chemical Warfare in World War II
Häftad, 2024
372 kr
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Holding Their Breath uncovers just how close Britain, the United States, and Canada came to crossing the red line that restrained chemical weapon use during World War II. Unlike in World War I, belligerents did not release poison gas regularly during the Second World War. Yet, the looming threat of …
From Incarceration to Repatriation
German Prisoners of War in the Soviet Union
Inbunden, 2024
576 kr
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From Incarceration to Repatriation explores the lives and memories of the nearly 1.5 million German POWs who were held by the Soviet Union during and after World War II and released in phases through 1956, seven years longer than the prisoners of any other Allied nation. Susan C. I. Grunewald …
Revolutionary Warfare
How the Algerian War Made Modern Counterinsurgency
Inbunden, 2024
562 kr
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Revolutionary Warfare investigates how efforts to counter a revolution could also be revolutionary. The Algerian War fractured the French Empire, destroyed the legitimacy of colonial rule, and helped launch the Third Worldist movement for the liberation of the Global South. By tracing how French …
Airborne Mafia
The Paratroopers Who Shaped America's Cold War Army
Inbunden, 2025
354 kr
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The Airborne Mafia explores how a small group of World War II airborne officers took control of the US Army after World War II. This powerful cadre cemented a unique airborne culture that had an unprecedented impact on the Cold War US Army and beyond.Robert F. Williams reveals the trials and …
Orchestrating Power
The American Associational State in the First World War
Inbunden, 2025
649 kr
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Orchestrating Power explores how the expansion of the American state for the First World War reshaped the nature of governance. This wartime state expansion is examined through the creation, structure, activities, and impact of the Council of Defense system on the ability of the United States to …
Reds, Revolutions, and Rebellions
How China, Cuba, and Vietnam Transformed Guerilla Warfare
Inbunden, 2026
460 kr
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Reds, Revolutions, and Rebellions investigates how insurgent strategies from three revolutionary states – Mao's China, Guevara's Cuba, and Ho Chi Minh's Vietnam – shaped the tactics of armed movements across the Global South. The afterlife of twentieth-century communist guerilla warfare still …
Remember the Tuscania
The Sinking, Its Aftermath, and a Century of Public Memory
Av Steven Trout
Inbunden, 2026
340 kr
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Remember the Tuscania plunges readers into the night of February 5, 1918, when a German U-boat's torpedo found a crowded US troopship in the North Atlantic—and into the century of argument, propaganda, and remembrance that followed. At its heart are the Baraboo Twenty-One, citizen-soldiers from a …
Flying Brothers
From Dogfights to Diplomacy in Cold War Southeast Asia
Inbunden, 2026
430 kr
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Flying Brothers drops you into cockpits and crisis rooms across the Cold War: supersonic F-5s herding rebel "Tora-Toras" over Manila in 1989, F-86 Sabres firing the first Sidewinder missiles against MiG-17s above the Taiwan Strait in 1958, and AT-6s striking a mutinous warship on a river in …
Paramilitary Turn
Cold War Policing and the American Garrison State
Inbunden, 2026
571 kr
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The Paramilitary Turn examines how American law enforcement became a central actor in national security during the twentieth century, reshaping the boundaries between civilian and military power. Tracing the rise of paramilitary policing from the Progressive Era through the Cold War reveals how …
