While the PP and PPK were intended for police work, the Walther P 38 was produced for the Germany military; all three pistols have garnered a formidable international reputation since the 1930s.The innovative Walther PP (Polizeipist...Daugiau...
Landing on the beach at Peleliu in 1944 as twenty-year-old new recruit to the US Marines, Eugene Sledge can only try desperately to survive. This memoir tells the cruelty, bravery and deaths of the men he fought alongside, and of his own journey from...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 20-Oct-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: St Martin's Press, ISBN-13: 9781250373083)
From the New York Times bestselling and National Jewish Book Awardwinning author: a gripping novel of foreboding, betrayal, heroism, and hope set in World War II BudapestBy the end of 1943, nearly all of Europes Jewish population...Daugiau...
Serija: De Gruyter Series in Holocaust Studies and Antisemitism
(Išleidimo metai: 20-Oct-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111580029)
Holocaust monuments in Central Europe, especially in todays Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, and Germany, have received surprisingly little academic attention. Yet these sites of memory offer deep insight into the individual, collective and cultural...Daugiau...
This book provides an authoritative history of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe and makes a compelling case for why the region can be considered the epicentre of the final solution.Waitman Wade Beorn introduces us to pre-war Jewish life i...Daugiau...
This book provides an authoritative history of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe and makes a compelling case for why the region can be considered the epicentre of the final solution.Waitman Wade Beorn introduces us to pre-war Jewish life i...Daugiau...
This is the first comprehensive study to examine the place of the Eastern Front or Soviet-German War in European memory from a truly comparative perspective across Europe; it encompasses the Soviet and post-Soviet space, Germany (both GDR a...Daugiau...
On 28 October 1940, Italian armed forces invaded Greece from Albania as part of Mussolinis parallel war for control of the Mediterranean basin. What promised to be a military walkover turned into an unmitigated disaster as the Greeks, spurred on by...Daugiau...
Fought between November 1942 and May 1943, the Second World Wars Tunisian Campaign has often been described as where the Allies learned to fight. The vital culmination of the conflict fought across the breadth of North Africa, as well as an import...Daugiau...
A feast of colorful artwork adorns the walls of a Second World War-era officers club in the North Atlantic city of St. Johns -- cartoons painted onto ship gun shields that convey stories of courage and cowardice, resolve and resilience, triumph...Daugiau...
Tanks in Unexpected Places considers how fighting effectiveness was both produced and maintained during the Second World War. 4th Independent Armoured Brigade, the subject of the study, was part of the relatively small minority of British formations...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of British Columbia Press, ISBN-13: 9780774872843)
In September 1945, Canada proposed exiling Japanese Canadians to Japan, a country devastated by war. Thousands who had experienced internment and dispossession were now at risk of banishment.In Challenging Exile, Eric M. Adams a...Daugiau...
From its pre-war inception and difficult gestation as a high-speed bomber to its adaptation as a night fighter, torpedo bomber and reconnaissance platform, the Junkers Ju 88 was one of the most versatile and widely used aircraft of World War II. Junk...Daugiau...
The full story of the valiant defense of the Losheimergraben crossroads by a motley band of American infantry, which delayed the German Ardennes offensive and bought the Allies critical time to regroup. The heroic stand at Losheimergraben Cro...Daugiau...
The largest military campaign in history has remained poorly understood for more than eight decades. The excuses offered by Adolf Hitler and his generals for the German armys defeat continue to predominate in even the most recent accounts of Operati...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 14-Oct-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: The Penguin Press, ISBN-13: 9780593298695)
Explores the often overlooked postwar struggles of World War II veterans and their families, revealing widespread trauma, social challenges, and systemic discrimination, while tracing how these experiences reshaped American society and influenced not...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 09-Oct-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Michael Joseph Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780241767122)
War came to North Africa in June 1940. But it was over a year before a newly-formed SAS went into action. Until then, the fight belonged to an elite, top secret band of brothers called the Long Range Desert Group.They were Britain’s fi...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 09-Oct-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780192849519)
The destruction left by Nazi Germany was horrendous. Tobias Straumann tells the story of how, why, and to what extent Hitlers Debt was paid in the aftermath of WWII. Why were the United States and its Western Allies so lenient...Daugiau...
