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From an award-winning historian comes a fresh analysis of the rise of Nazi extremism, how such thinking gained popularity, and why it is vital to fight burgeoning extremist movements today How could the SS have committed the crimes they did? How were the killers who shot Jews at close quarters...

Under martial law during World War II, Hawai'i was located at the intersection of home front and war front. In Settler Militarism, Juliet Nebolon shows how settler colonialism and militarization simultaneously perpetuated, legitimated, and concealed one another in wartime Hawai'i for the...

When President Roosevelt called for the country to be the great "Arsenal of Democracy," Detroit helped turn the tide against fascism with its industrial might. Locals were committed to the cause, putting careers and personal ambitions on hold. Factories were retooled from the ground up. Industrialist Henry Ford, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, aviator Charles Lindbergh, legendary boxer Joe Louis, future baseball Hall of Famer Hank Greenberg and the real-life Rosie the Riveters all helped drive the city that was "forging thunderbolts" for the front lines.

Between May 1944 and his return home in November 1945, Roy wrote letters almost daily to Carmela from the Pacific. As he wrote to Carmela, “One of the things that will keep us together in spirit will be the letters. We must keep them flowing in an unbroken chain.” On one hand, they are indeed love letters; on the other hand, they are historic documents. In writing Roy & Carmela, Mark Brown, Roy and Carmela’s youngest son, put together a history of the U.S. war against Japan from Roy’s unique perspective in Saipan.

Roger Lockshier enlisted in the US Army in April 1966. After completing Airborne (Paratrooper) Jump Training at Fort Benning GA, he was assigned to Aviation Battalion 101st Airborne Division, Fort Campbell Kentucky, December 1966. In December of 1967 the 101st Airborne Division was transferred to Viet Nam. Lockshier was a Crewchief / Doorgunner with the 101st Airborne's Black Angels Huey Helicopter Gunships assigned to provide combat support to the 101st Airborne and 5th Special Forces MACVSOG. He returned to the States in December of 1968.

My Year in Vietnam takes Phillip I. Elkins, a.k.a. Señor Felipe, from getting on the plane to Vietnam and the shock of arrival in Vietnam and seeing the cargo hold of the plane being loaded with GIs in caskets. From there he is assigned to his unit, at first in Saigon, where he meets some of the locals and gets involved with them. Then he’s sent up into the Central Highlands with the 1st Cavalry Division as a preventive medicine specialist under a Sergeant Sidell, who hates draftees, which of course, is what Elkins is.

When the name Guadalcanal is mentioned, most picture Marines desperately fighting in the dense jungles and the United States Navy in dramatic surface battles. That story, though true, tells only part of the campaign. Less well known is the role played by the United States Army. While the Marines...

Dans une Virginie ravagée par la guerre de Sécession, la vie quotidienne se fissure, les loyautés se tendent et chaque décision peut faire basculer un destin. Jean de Villiot capture l’électricité d’une époque où les frontières se déplacent et où l’on progresse dans la poussière et l’incertitude, entre rumeurs de batailles et silences des maisons désertées. Plus qu’un simple tableau militaire, c’est un épisode vécu à hauteur d’hommes et de femmes, où le courage, la peur et l’espoir s’entrelacent.

"A war to end all wars"—but its echoes still shape the modern world. From the blood-soaked trenches of the Western Front to the political upheavals that redrew the globe, World War I – Causes and Consequences offers a powerful, cinematic journey through the war that shattered empires, transformed societies, and set the stage for the century to come. This 30-chapter storytelling narrative weaves together the grand strategy of world leaders and the intimate struggles of ordinary people caught in the storm.

La segunda guerra mundial contada por los soldados Estas cartas de soldados alemanes, seleccionadas entre las que se guardan en el Deutsche Dienststelle de Berlín, nos ofrecen el testimonio directo de quienes lucharon en los diversos frentes, de Francia a la Unión Soviética, durante cerca de...

Bestselling historian Professor Frank McDonough tackles the subject in the same way as his brilliantly reviewed and bestselling titles in this series. The penultimate title in the Hitler's Germany series, the book marks the end of the Second World War, and the end of the Nazi regime, offering the listener a sweeping narrative tackling the major characters, significant events of this horrific period of Nazi doctrine formed in their early years of the 1920s, that would evolve into full-blown genocide of a race of people by the end of World War Two.

Hará todo para proteger a su familia, incluso si eso implica ignorar el horror. Berlín, 1930. Cuando el partido nazi se encumbra en el poder, el esposo de Sofie, Jürgen Rhodes, se ve beneficiado por el nuevo gobierno. Aunque ellos no comparten la ideología de Hitler, la nueva posición de Jürgen como científico del programa espacial los rodea de privilegios. Sin embargo, Sofie observa con horror cómo el mismo régimen que los encumbra también destruye la vida de miles de inocentes. Para mantener la seguridad de su familia, ¿será capaz de cerrar los ojos ante el horror?

Based on research in five languages and in archives across the globe, Habsburgs on the Rio Grande fundamentally revises narratives of global history. Far more than a footnote, the Second Mexican Empire was at the center of world-historic great-power struggles—a point of inflection in a contest for supremacy that set the terms of twentieth-century rivalry.

Some of the cruelest deeds of Japan's war in Asia did not occur on the battlefield, but in quiet, antiseptic medical wards in obscure parts of China. Far from front lines and prying eyes, Japanese doctors and their assistants subjected human guinea pigs to gruesome medical experiments in the name of science and Japan's wartime chemical and biological warfare research. Author Hal Gold draws upon a wealth of sources to construct a portrait of the Imperial Japanese Army's most notorious medical unit, giving an overview of its history and detailing its most shocking activities.

The indisputable classic of military history that uncovers the shortcomings of military leadership and explains why generals fail The Crimea, the Boer War, the Somme, Tobruk, Pearl Harbor, the Bay of Pigs: these are just some of the milestones in a century of military incompetence, of costly...

Hitler’s Inner Circle: Monsters and Yes-Men is a gripping and unflinching examination of the personalities who shaped the Third Reich from within. While Hitler remains the focal point of Nazi horror, he did not act alone. This book exposes the men who not only supported him but often rivalled him in ruthlessness, loyalty, and ambition.

Samurai! is the gripping autobiography of Saburō Sakai, one of Japan’s most renowned fighter pilots during World War II. Co-written with Fred Saito and Martin Caidin, the book chronicles Sakai’s rise from a poor rural upbringing to becoming an elite Zero pilot in the Imperial Japanese Navy.

The Vietnam War cast a shadow over the American psyche from the moment it began. In its time it sparked budget deficits, campus protests, and an erosion of US influence around the world. Long after the last helicopter evacuated Saigon, Americans have continued to battle over whether it was ever a winnable war.

One April morning in 1943, a sardine fisherman spotted the corpse of a British soldier floating in the sea off the coast of Spain and set in train a course of events that would change the course of the Second World War. Ben Macintyre, bestselling author of Agent Zigzag, weaves together private documents, memories, letters and diaries, as well as newly released material from the intelligence files of MI5 and Naval Intelligence, to tell for the first time the full story of Operation Mincemeat.

Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and the Congressional Gold Medal, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel offers an unforgettable account of Hitler's horrific reign of terror in Night. This definitive edition features a new translation from the original French by Wiesel's wife and frequent translator, Marion Wiesel.