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  • - Determining Identity During the U.S. Wartime Occupation
    af Courtney A. Short
    373,95 - 1.112,95 kr.

    Looks at how American soldiers, sailors, and Marines considered race, ethnicity, and identity in the planning and execution of the wartime occupation of Okinawa, during and immediately after the Battle of Okinawa, 1945-1946.

  • - New Perspectives on Diplomacy, War, and the Home Front
    af Sidney Pash
    948,95 kr.

    Offers a fresh examination of American participation in the Second World War

  • - A Father's Legacy
    af Susan E. Wiant
    588,95 kr.

    As an Associated Press (AP) correspondent during World War-II, the author fought restrictions that prohibited him from scooping stories from a rival wire service. This title highlights the role of the Associated Press and the war correspondent as important links between the military and the American home front.

  • - World War II, The Holocaust, and Rural Judaism
    af Gilya Gerda Schmidt
    698,95 kr.

    Offers a close look at the legacy of a few Jewish families from Sussen-a village in southern Germany

  • - New Perspectives on Diplomacy, War, and the Home Front
     
    473,95 kr.

    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 le

  • - A Boy's Life in a Japanese Labor Camp
    af John K. Stutterheim
    398,95 - 698,95 kr.

    A moving memoir of childhood in Dutch colonial Java, coming of age in wartime, and the trauma of life in WWII Labor Camps run by the Japanese. As a boy growing up the Dutch island colony of Java, John K. Stutterheim spent hours exploring his exotic surroundings, taking walks with his younger brother and dachshund along winding jungle roads. It was a fairly typical life for a colonial family in the Dutch East Indies, but their colonial idyll ended when the Japanese invaded in 1942, when John was fourteen. With the surrender of Java, John's father was taken prisoner. Soon thereafter, John, his younger brother, and his mother were imprisoned. A year later he and his brother were moved to a forced labor camp for boys, where disease, starvation, and the constant threat of imminent death took their toll. Throughout all of these travails, John kept a secret diary hidden in his mattress. His memories now offer a unique perspective on an often-overlooked episode of World War II. What emerges is a compelling story of a young man caught up in the machinations of a global warstruggling to survive while caring for his gravely ill brother.

  • - Angelo Tasca from Italian Socialism to French Collaboration
    af Emanuel Rota
    253,95 - 1.168,95 kr.

    The illuminating intellectual biography of one of the most controversial Italian figures of the twentieth century.

  • - Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman and POW, Revised Edition
    af Alexander Jefferson
    343,95 kr.

    This book is a rare and important gift. One of the few memoirs of combat in World War II by a distinguished African-American flier, it is also perhaps the only account of the African-American experience in a German prison camp.

  • - The Gendered Redemption of World War II Italy
    af Marisa Escolar
    434,95 - 1.316,95 kr.

    Analyzes Anglo-American and Italian literary, cinematic and military representations of World War II Italy in order to trace, critique and move beyond the gendered paradigm of redemption that has conditioned understandings of the Allied-Italian encounter.

  • - From Pearl Harbor to the War's Final Mission
    af James V. Edmundson
    653,95 kr.

    Presents a first person account of two of the heroes of World War II and of the love that they shared across the years and miles.

  • af DeSalvo
    243,95 kr.

    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 service upon their family than she'd ever imagined. During his last years, as he told her about his life, DeSalvo began to understand that her obsession with war novels and military history wasn't merely academic but rooted in her desire to understand this complex father whom she both adored and reviled because of his mistreatment of her. Although she at first believes she wants to uncover his story, the story of a man who was no hero but who was nonetheless adversely affected by the his military service, she learns that what she really wants is to recover the man that he was before he went away.As DeSalvo and her father uncover his past piece-by-piece, bit-by-bit, she learns about the dreams of a working-class man who entered the military in the late 1930s during peacetime to better himself, a man who wanted to become a pilot. She learns about what it was like for him to participate in war games in the Pacific prior to the war, and its devastating toll. She learns about what it was like for her parents to fall in love, set up house, marry, and have children during this cataclysmic time. And as the pieces of her father's life fall into place as works to piece together the puzzle of everything she's learned about this time, she finds herself finally able to understand him.Chasing Ghosts is an original contribution to the understanding of working-class World War II veterans who did not conventionally distinguish themselves through "e;heroic"e; actions and whose lives were not until recently considered worthy of historical or cultural attention. It personalizes the history of those sailors who served in the Navy aboard aircraft carriers and on islands in the Pacific prior to, and during World War II and contributes to the current vital conversation about the often-unrecognized effects of war and its traumas upon those men and their families. It reveals the lifelong devastating consequences of military service on those men and women who fell in love, married, and set up house. And it reveals the complexity of what it is like to be the daughter of a father who has gone to war.

  • af James Cassidy
    233,95 kr.

    The diary of radio correspondent James Cassidy presents a unique view of World War II as this reporter followed the Allied armies into Nazi Germany.James Joseph Cassidy was one of 362 American journalists accredited to cover the European Theater of Operations between June 7, 1944, and the war's end. Radio was relatively new, and World War II was its first war. Among the difficulties facing historians examining radio reporters during that period is that many potential primary documents-their live broadcasts-were not recorded. In NBC Goes to War, Cassidy's censored scripts alongside his personal diary capture a front-line view during some of the nastiest fighting in World War II as told by a seasoned NBC reporter.James Cassidy was ambitious and young, and his coverage of World War II for the NBC radio network notched some notable firsts, including being the first to broadcast live from German soil and arranging the broadcast of a live Jewish religious service from inside Nazi Germany while incoming mortar and artillery shells fell 200 yards away. His diary describes how he gathered news, how it was censored, and how it was sent from the battle zone to the United States. As radio had no pictures, reporters quickly developed a descriptive visual style to augment dry facts. All of Cassidy's stories, from the panic he felt while being targeted by German planes to his shock at the deaths of colleagues, he told with grace and a reporter's lean and engaging prose.Providing valuable eyewitness material not previously available to historians, NBC Goes to War tells a "e;bottom-up"e; narrative that provides insight into war as fought and chronicled by ordinary men and women. Cassidy skillfully placed listeners alongside him in the ruins of Aachen, on icy back roads crawling with spies, and in a Belgian bar where a little girl wailed "e;Les Amricains partent!"e; when Allied troops retreated to safety, leaving the town open to German re-occupation. With a journalistic eye for detail, NBC Goes to War unforgettably portrays life in the press corps. This newly uncovered perspective also helps balance the CBS-heavy radio scholarship about the war, which has always focused heavily on Edward R. Murrow and his "e;Murrow's Boys."e;

  • af Rebecca Schwartz Greene
    362,95 - 1.132,95 kr.

  • af G. Kurt Piehler & Ingo Trauschweizer
    397,95 - 1.115,95 kr.

  • - The World War II Letters of an American Veteran of the Spanish Civil War
    af Lawrence Cane
    573,95 kr.

    "A marvelous story... will be consulted as long as World War II and the Spanish Civil War are studied... Cane is a very good writer." Frank F. Mathias, author of The GI Generation: A Memoir

  • - The Diary and Memoir of Virginia D'Albert-Lake
     
    1.273,95 kr.

    This fascinating book tells the remarkable story of an ordinary American woman's heroism in the French Resistance.

  • - Reporting the War from the European Theater: 1942-1945
    af Don Whitehead
    763,95 kr.

    One of the legendary reporters of World War II, the author covered important Allied invasion and campaign in Europe-from landings in Sicily, Salerno, and Anzio on the Italian front to Normandy, where he went ashore with the First Army Division. This book collects his dispatches that are classics of war journalism.

  • - Cinema, Violence, and Style in Britain, 1939-1945
    af Kent Puckett
    318,95 - 1.288,95 kr.

  • - America's Reserve Officers Remember World War II
     
    728,95 kr.

    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. This title deals with this topic.

  • - From Defeat to Liberation
    af Michael Scott Christofferson & Thomas R. Christofferson
    508,95 - 1.118,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Caught in the Cauldron
    af Deborah S. Cornelius
    459,95 - 933,95 kr.

    A historian examines why Hungary allied with the Nazis, and the devastating consequences for the country. The full story of Hungary's participation in World War II is part of a fascinating tale of rise and fall, of hopes dashed and dreams in tatters. Using previously untapped sources and interviews she conducted for this book, Deborah S. Cornelius provides a clear account of Hungary's attempt to regain the glory of the Hungarian Kingdom by joining forces with Nazi Germanya decision that today seems doomed to fail from the start. For scholars and history buffs alike, Hungary in World War II is a riveting read. After the First World War, the new country of Hungary lost more than 70 percent of its territory and saw its population reduced by nearly the same percentage. But in the early years of World War II, Hungary enjoyed boom timesand the dream of restoring the Hungarian Kingdom began to rise again. As the war engulfed Europe, Hungary was drawn into an alliance with Nazi Germany. When the Germans appeared to give Hungary much of its pre-World War I territory, Hungarians began to delude themselves into believing they had won their long-sought objective. Instead, the final year of the world war brought widespread destruction and a genocidal war against Hungarian Jews. Caught between two warring behemoths, the country became a battleground for German and Soviet forcesand in the wake of the war, Hungary suffered further devastation under Soviet occupation and forty-five years of communist rule. This is the story of a tumultuous time and a little-known chapter in the sweeping history of World War II.

  • af Panteleymon Anastasakis
    508,95 kr.

    This study examines the response of the Greek clergy to the experience of enemy occupation during World War II. In particular, it evaluates how these men reacted to Axis brutality, the nationwide famine, the Holocaust, and the growth of national resistance movements during the period.

  • - A Son's Memoir
    af John J. Toffey
    573,95 kr.

    Offers a portrait of home front Ohio, and how a young boy, his sister, and his mother waited out their war, scanning newspapers and magazines for news of Dad and devouring letters full of humor and expressions of love for and pride in his family and dreams of a good life after the war.

  • - A German American's Fight against Hitler and Nazism
    af Patricia Kollander
    455,95 kr.

    Kurt Frank Korf's story is one of the most unusual to come out of World War II. Drawing on his correspondence and on oral histories and interviews with Korf, the author paints a portrait of a man forced to flee Nazi Germany because the Nuremburg Laws had relegated him to the status of "second-degree mixed breed" as Korf had one Jewish grandparent.

  • - The World War II Letters of Frank Dietrich and Albert Dietrich
    af Frank Dietrich
    443,95 kr.

    This selection of letters offers perspectives on the US experience during World War II. The first published correspondence between GI and CO brothers, the letters chronicle the military service and life on the home front. Frank and Albert Dietrich also argued about the uses of armed force and pacifist non-violence in the face of fascism and Nazism.

  • - With a new introduction
    af Jonathan G. Utley
    391,95 kr.

    How did Japan and the United States end up at war on December 7, 1941? What American decisions might have provoked the Japanese decision to attack Pearl Harbor? In this classic study of the run up to World War II, Utley examines the ways domestic politics shaped America's response to Japanese moves in the Pacific.

  • - The First Year, 1945-1946
    af Grant K. Goodman
    468,95 kr.

    As an Army lieutenant, the author served in Tokyo as an intelligence officer. He translated thousands of letters, interviews, and other documents by Japanese citizens of all kinds, and came to know, as few Americans could, the hearts and minds of a defeated people as they moved slowly to democracy. This is a chronicle of his experience in Japan.