Praised as "the best military historian of our generation" by Tom Clancy, John Keegan now reconstructs his masterful study of World War II with a new Foreword. Maps & photos throughout.
First published in 1977 this accessible general overview of Canada's contribution to the Second World War and of the war's effect on Canada's evolution. This revised edition incorporates ...
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Unlike most other books on the subject this is a very welcome short book on the Second World War in Europe. Dr MacKenzie covers concisely all the major military campaigns, the important e...
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After years of losses, the tide finally turnsbeginning in Russia with the epic battle for Stalingrad and the German retreat. Then, in Africa, the Allied armies defeat Rommels Afrika Korps...
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The phrase cinematic fiction has been generally accepted in critical discourse, but usually only in the context of postwar novels. This volume examines the influence of film on the novel ...
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In honor of the sixtieth anniversary of the end of World War II, Nobel Prize winner Winston Churchill8217;s essential, abridged memoirs of that time are reintroduced with an updated cover...
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This fascinating book offers a new perspective on the architectural history of the Second World War, which in previous accounts has most often been viewed as a hiatus between peaceful per...
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In Australian Battalion Commanders in the Second World War, Garth Pratten explores, for the first time, the background, role and conduct of the commanding officers of Australian infantry ...
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For Britain the Second World War exists in popular memory as a time of heroic sacrifice, survival and ultimate victory over Fascism. In the Irish state the years 1939-1945 are still remem...
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This scholarly yet entertaining magnum opus is the definitive account of all the stratagems used by the Allies against the Axis in World War II.Wall Street JournalSecret Codes, ciphers, s...
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A Family in Wartime explores the trials, tribulations, and jubilations collectively experienced by the British public from 1939-1945. Drawing on firsthand accounts and the personal archiv...
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Some rather remarkable changes took place in North American business schools between 1945 and 1970, altering the character of these institutions, the possibilities for their future, and t...
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This is the first study of the aims that motivated the major powers -- the United States, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, Germany, and, Japan -- to fight in the Second World War. The boo...
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Britain in the Second World War presents a new and vivid survey of politics, society, culture and military strategy between 1939 and 1945. Structured around themes such as 'Wartime Media'...
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In her analysis of the reasons for the outbreak of the Second World War, one of the most controversial of all historical topics, Ruth Henig: considers the long-term factors that led to t...
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This collection provides the most comprehensive English-language survey of the conduct of neutral and non-belligerent states during the war for fifty years. The essays focus on how indivi...
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This lively history immerses the reader in San Francisco's musical life during the first half of the twentieth century, showing how a fractious community overcame virulent partisanship to...
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Arguing that the period from 1938 to 1941 was a turning point in modern American history, Mr. Reynolds shows how Franklin Roosevelt led Americans into a new global perspective on foreign policy.
Wasserstein's original and provocative book presents a disturbing interpretation of the collapse of European Jewish civilization even before the Nazi onslaught. Based on vast research, wr...
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The bungled demobilization of Canadians returning from the First World War contributed to a period of intense political, social, and economic upheaval. At the outbreak of the Second World...
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Herbert Hoover's "magnum opus"--at last published nearly fifty years after its completion--offers a revisionist reexamination of World War II and its cold war aftermath and a sweeping ind...
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Acclaimed military historian Trevor Royle examines Scotlands role in the Second World War. The countrys geographical position gave it great strategic importance for importing war material...
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"The Storm of War" is a magisterial new history of World War II and the Axis strategy that lost the war, by one of Britain's finest historians and a "New York Times"-bestselling author.
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