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  • Passport Not Requiredby Eric Dietrich-Berryman; Charlotte Hammond; Ronald White

    Naval Institute Press 2013; US$ 27.95

    Before America entered World War II, twenty-two U.S. citizens went to England and volunteered with the Royal Navy. Commissioned between September 1939 and November 1941, they fought in the Battle of the Atlantic and on a variety of fronts. While the history of Americans serving in the Royal Air Force is well known, the story of these naval volunteers... more...

  • The Royal Navy and the Battle of Britainby Anthony J. Cumming

    Naval Institute Press 2013; US$ 34.95

    This persuasive study attacks the key myths surrounding the Battle of Britain to revise the relative status of maritime and aviation factors in the defense of Britain. Without denigrating the heroism of the fighter pilots, Anthony Cumming challenges the effectiveness of the Royal Air Force in 1940 and gives the Royal Navy much greater prominence than... more...

  • Racing the Sunriseby Glen M. Williford

    Naval Institute Press 2013; US$ 37.95

    Glen Williford lends new insight into the reasons for America s relatively quick comeback from the attack on Pearl Harbor. For the first time, he tells the complete story of American efforts to build and reinforce its Pacific garrisons in the Philippines and Hawaii during the six months prior to the war and to supply Bataan and Corregidor in early... more...

  • The Holocaust as Active Memoryby Marie Louise Seeberg; Irene Levin; Claudia Lenz

    Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 99.95

    What are the catalysts that trigger a change from silence to discussion of the Holocaust? What happens when we talk its invisibility away? How are memories of the Holocaust reflected in different social environments? Who asks questions about memories of the Holocaust, and which answers do they find, at which point in time and from which past and present... more...

  • The Clergy in Khakiby Michael Snape; Edward Madigan

    Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 124.95

    Army chaplains have not fared well in the mythology of the Great War. Alongside Blimpish generals they are generally characterized as embodiments of the callous futility and hypocrisy that left the battlefields of the Western Front littered with corpses. Yet, as historians have begun to reassess the motives and performance of generals, so this collection... more...

  • Encyclopedia of the Cold Warby Ruud van Dijk; William Glenn Gray; Svetlana Savranskaya; Jeremi Suri; Qiang Zhai

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 600.00

    Between 1945 and 1991, tension between the USA, its allies, and a group of nations led by the USSR, dominated world politics. This period was called the Cold War ? a conflict that stopped short to a full-blown war. Benefiting from the recent research of newly open archives, the Encyclopedia of the Cold War discusses how this state of perpetual... more...

  • Soviet Military Intelligence in Warby Colonel David M. Glantz

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 61.95

    This text is the second of three volumes written by Colonel Glantz on the contribution of intelligence and deception operations to the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany. It examines the area where intelligence and operations overlap; the nature of co-ordination between the two; and the support provided by intelligence to operational planning and execution... more...

  • Race for the Reichstagby Tony Le Tissier MBE

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 49.95

    The soldiers of the Red Army identified the Reichstag as the victor's prize to be taken in Berlin. This account of the battle lays the many myths created by Soviet propaganda after the event to rest and details what exactly happened as the Red Army and the Allies raced to be the first at the Reichstag. more...

  • Myth and the Greatest Generationby Kenneth Rose

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 29.95

    Myth and the Greatest Generation calls into question the glowing paradigm of the World War II generation set up by such books as The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw. Including analysis of news reports, memoirs, novels, films and other cultural artefacts Ken Rose shows the war was much more disruptive to the lives of Americans in the military... more...

  • Air Power at the Battlefrontby Dr Ian Gooderson

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 35.95

    Ian Gooderson presents a study of close air support in World War II, with the analysis focusing on the use of tactical air power by British and American forces during the campaigns in Italy and northwestern Europe between 1943 and 1945. more...