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War Land on the Eastern Front
Culture, National Identity, and German Occupation in World War I
Av Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius, Jay Winter
Häftad, 2005
838 kr
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War Land on the Eastern Front is a study of a hidden legacy of World War I: the experience of German soldiers on the Eastern front and the long-term effects of their encounter with Eastern Europe. It presents an 'anatomy of an occupation', charting the ambitions and realities of the new German …
Survivors
Warsaw under Nazi Occupation
Häftad, 2024
401 kr
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Survivors tells the harrowing story of life in Warsaw under Nazi occupation. As the epicenter of Polish resistance, Warsaw was subjected to violent persecution, the ghettoization of the city's Jewish community, the suppression of multiple uprisings, and an avalanche of restrictions that killed …
Interrogating Nazism
Spies, Soldiers and War Criminals in Second World War Britain
Inbunden, 2026
448 kr
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Behind the front lines of the Second World War raged a different kind of battle. In secret camps across Britain, thousands of enemy spies, soldiers, and war criminals were interrogated in the effort to defeat Nazi Germany and the ideology that drove it. Drawing on extensive British archival …
A Time of Silence
Civil War and the Culture of Repression in Franco's Spain, 1936-1945
Av Michael Richards, Jay Winter m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
820 kr
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The years 1936-1945 in Spain saw catastrophic civil war followed by fierce repression and economic misery. Families were torn apart and social relations were disrupted by death, exile and defeat. Society became traumatized so deeply that people avoided talking openly of these years for decades. …
The Allied Air War and Urban Memory
The Legacy of Strategic Bombing in Germany
Inbunden, 2011
1928 kr
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The cultural legacy of the air war on Germany is explored in this comparative study of two bombed cities from different sides of the subsequently divided nation. Contrary to what is often assumed, Allied bombing left a lasting imprint on German society, spawning vibrant memory cultures that can be …
National Cleansing
Retribution against Nazi Collaborators in Postwar Czechoslovakia
Av Benjamin Frommer, Jay Winter m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
687 kr
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National Cleansing examines the prosecution of over one hundred thousand suspected war criminals and collaborators by Czech courts and tribunals after the Second World War. As the first comprehensive history of postwar Czech retribution, this 2005 book provides a new perspective on Czechoslovakia's …
European Culture in the Great War
The Arts, Entertainment and Propaganda, 1914-1918
Av Aviel Roshwald, Richard Stites
Häftad, 2002
838 kr
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It is commonplace to refer to the First World War as an historical watershed, but the nature of that great cataclysm's impact upon European society and culture remains a hotly debated topic. Many recent works have dealt with the Great War's role in shaping artistic and intellectual modernism and …
The Spirit of 1914
Militarism, Myth, and Mobilization in Germany
Av Jeffrey Verhey, Jay Winter m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
921 kr
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This book, first published in 2000, is a systematic analysis of German public opinion at the outbreak of the Great War and the first treatment of the myth of the 'spirit of 1914', which stated that in August 1914 all Germans felt 'war enthusiasm' and that this enthusiasm constituted a critical …
Jews and Gender in Liberation France
Av K. H. Adler, Jay Winter m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
737 kr
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This book takes a new look at occupied and liberated France through the dual prism of race, specifically Jewishness, and gender - core components of Vichy ideology. The imagining of liberation and the potential post-Vichy state, lay at the heart of resistance strategy. Their transformation into …
Commemorating the Irish Civil War
History and Memory, 1923-2000
Av Anne Dolan, Jay Winter m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
838 kr
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After civil war, can the winners commemorate their victory, hailing their conquering heroes with the blood of their former comrades still fresh on their boots? Or should they cover themselves in shame and hope that the nation soon forgets? In this book, Anne Dolan explores the tensions between …
German Anglophobia and the Great War, 1914-1918
Av Matthew Stibbe, Jay Winter m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
921 kr
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This is the first major study of German attitudes towsrds England during the Great War, 1914-18, continuing the story of Anglo-German antagonism where previous studies have ended. In particular it focuses on the extremity of anti-English feeling in Germany in the early years of the war, and on the …
Fighting Different Wars
Experience, Memory, and the First World War in Britain
Häftad, 2007
838 kr
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The popular idea of the First World War is a story of disillusionment and pointless loss. This vision, however, dates from well after the Armistice. In this 2004 book Janet Watson separates out wartime from retrospective accounts and contrasts war as lived experience - for soldiers, women and …
Life between Memory and Hope
The Survivors of the Holocaust in Occupied Germany
Häftad, 2007
687 kr
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This is the remarkable story of the 250,000 Holocaust survivors who converged on the American Zone of Occupied Germany from 1945 to 1948. They envisaged themselves as the living bridge between destruction and rebirth, the last remnants of a world destroyed and the active agents of its return to …
The Legacy of Nazi Occupation
Patriotic Memory and National Recovery in Western Europe, 1945-1965
Häftad, 2007
435 kr
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This volume, in Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare series, examines how France, Belgium and the Netherlands emerged from the military collapse and humiliating Nazi occupation they suffered during the Second World War. Rather than traditional armed conflict, the human …
Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire
Total War and Everyday Life in World War I
Häftad, 2007
820 kr
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Maureen Healy examines the collapse of the Habsburg Empire from the perspective of everyday life in the capital city. She argues that a striking feature of 'total war' on the home front was the spread of a war mentality to the mundane sites of everyday life - streets, shops, schools, entertainment …
America and the Armenian Genocide of 1915
Av Jay Winter
Häftad, 2008
838 kr
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Before Rwanda and Bosnia, and before the Holocaust, the first genocide of the twentieth century happened in Turkish Armenia in 1915, when approximately one million people were killed. This volume is an account of the American response to this atrocity. The first part sets up the framework for …
The Great War and Urban Life in Germany
Freiburg, 1914-1918
Häftad, 2009
918 kr
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In deference to the principle that total war requires total history, Roger Chickering traces the all-embracing impact of the First World War on life in the German city of Freiburg. His book shows how the war took over every facet of life in the city, from industrial production to the supply of …
The Great Naval Game
Britain and Germany in the Age of Empire
Häftad, 2009
838 kr
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This book is about the theatre of power and identity that unfolded in and between Britain and Germany in the decades before the First World War. It explores what contemporaries described as the cult of the navy: the many ways in which the navy and the sea were celebrated in the fleet reviews, naval …
Violence against Prisoners of War in the First World War
Britain, France and Germany, 1914-1920
Inbunden, 2011
1509 kr
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In this groundbreaking study, Heather Jones provides the first in-depth and comparative examination of violence against First World War prisoners. She shows how the war radicalised captivity treatment in Britain, France and Germany, dramatically undermined international law protecting prisoners of …
The Great War and Medieval Memory
War, Remembrance and Medievalism in Britain and Germany, 1914-1940
Häftad, 2009
737 kr
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A genuinely comparative study of the cultural impact of the Great War on British and German societies in the first half of the twentieth century. Taking public commemorations as its focus, this book unravels the British and German search for historical continuity and meaning in the shadow of an …
Citizen Soldiers
The Liverpool Territorials in the First World War
Häftad, 2011
623 kr
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The popular image of the British soldier in the First World War is of a passive victim, caught up in events beyond his control, and isolated from civilian society. This book offers a different vision of the soldier's experience of war. Using letters and official sources relating to Liverpool units, …
The Moral Disarmament of France
Education, Pacifism, and Patriotism, 1914-1940
Häftad, 2011
687 kr
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While French schoolteachers of the late nineteenth century have been widely celebrated for converting 'peasants into Frenchmen', their interwar counterparts have enjoyed little such acclaim. Both contemporary critics and subsequent scholars have condemned French pacifist schoolteachers of the …
German Soldier Newspapers of the First World War
Inbunden, 2011
1022 kr
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The literature on trench journalism is well established for Britain and France during the First World War, but this book is the first systematic study in English of German soldier newspapers as a representation of daily life and beliefs on the front. Printed by and for soldiers at or near the front …
Remembering Palestine in 1948
Beyond National Narratives
Inbunden, 2011
1593 kr
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The war of 1948 in Palestine is a conflict whose history has been written primarily from the national point of view. This book asks what happens when narratives of war arise out of personal stories of those who were involved, stories that are still unfolding. Efrat Ben-Ze'ev examines the memories …
China and the Great War
China's Pursuit of a New National Identity and Internationalization
Av Guoqi Xu
Häftad, 2011
737 kr
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China's role in the First World War has been a curiously neglected topic. This 2005 book is a full-length study of China's involvement in the conflict from perspectives of international history, using largely unknown archival materials from China, France, Germany, UK, and USA. It explains why China …
Japanese Society at War
Death, Memory and the Russo-Japanese War
Häftad, 2011
754 kr
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As the first international conflict of the twentieth century, the Russo-Japanese War attracted much contemporary global interest. This text was the first full-length study to examine the war from the perspective of its impact on Japanese society, and sheds light on its implications for modern …
Liberators
The Allies and Belgian Society, 1944-1945
Inbunden, 2009
2096 kr
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In the autumn of 1944, Belgium was liberated at lightning speed. Yet Allied troops continued to dominate much of Belgian society until late 1945. Peter Schrijvers' revisionist account reveals that during that time, strong currents of discontent began to build beneath the waves of gratitude and …
The Final Battle
Soldiers of the Western Front and the German Revolution of 1918
Inbunden, 2009
1928 kr
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In many ways the German soldiers who marched back from the Western Front at the end of World War I held the key to the future of the newly-created republic that replaced the Kaiser's collapsed monarchy. To the radical Left, the orderly columns of front-line troops appeared to be the forces of the …
State, Society and Mobilization in Europe during the First World War
Av John Horne
Häftad, 2002
838 kr
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This volume examines political and cultural mobilisation in the face of industrialised mass death during the First World War. Comparing Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Austria-Hungary, it generates arguments on mobilisation and 'total war' which have wider relevance. It explores 'national …
State, Society and Mobilization in Europe during the First World War
Av John Horne
Inbunden, 1997
1912 kr
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This volume examines political and cultural mobilisation in the face of industrialised mass death during the First World War. Comparing Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Austria-Hungary, it generates arguments on mobilisation and 'total war' which have wider relevance. It explores 'national …
