World War II – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 5

Joshua B. Freeman
Working-Class New York

A "lucid, detailed, and imaginative analysis" (The Nation) of the model city that working-class New Yorkers created after World War II--and its tragic demiseMore than any other city in America, …

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Stephen Harding
G.I. G-Men

The explosive, untold true story of the band of patriotic FBI agents who went undercover to hunt down U.S. traitors on foreign soil during World War II and later investigated war criminals in the lead-up …

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Kelli Y Nakamura
Legacies of Incarceration

Legacies of Incarceration provides a holistic view of the incarceration experience of Hawaiʻi's Japanese by exploring the factors that shaped the circumstances of confinement on each island before, during…

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Francis Pike
Empires at War

From the author of Hirohito's War comes the second edition of his magisterial modern history of Asia, Empires at War. With 13 new and 2 updated chapters, Francis Pike brings the reader up to 2020, coverin…

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Mike Croissant
Bombing Hitler's Hometown

"One of WWII's final untold stories, this visceral account of the white-knuckled bombing mission American airmen carried out on Hitler's hometown of Linz, Austria is now told for the first time throu…

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Robert P. Wettemann
Rhino Tanks and Sticky Bombs Volume 79

Seamlessly blending social, military, intellectual, and technological history, Rhino Tanks and Sticky Bombs weaves an engaging narrative about the roots of American ingenuity during WWII--and makes a comp…

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John Spritzler
The People as Enemy

Challenges the standard story of World War II as the "good war."

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Chunmei Du
Everyday Occupation

'In this rich history of everyday encounters between US soldiers and Chinese civilians, Chunmei Du explores their entangled relations from the end of World War II to the founding of the People's Republic …

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Ka F Wong
Enmity and Empathy

The experiences of Japanese Americans and their allies fighting discrimination in wartime Minnesota demonstrate how diverse groups stood together amidst the turmoil--a legacy relevant in today's divisive …

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Chunmei Du
Everyday Occupation

'In this rich history of everyday encounters between US soldiers and Chinese civilians, Chunmei Du explores their entangled relations from the end of World War II to the founding of the People's Republic …

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Greg Lewis
The Nazi Ghost Train

The dramatic true story of the heroic rescue of Allied resistance fighters from a Nazi prison train after a devastating betrayal.In the final hours before the liberation of Brussels in 1944, the Germans l…

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Peter N. Stearns, Steven Mintz
The American Child

Historical perspective shows that concerns about the "kids these days" are as old as civilization itself. Today's young people are healthier than in the past and less likely to drink, smoke, or …

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Douglass K. Daniel
Kill-Do not Release

"Fighter-Writer" reports from major battles in the Pacific highlight what America's Marines endured in World War IIDouglass K. Daniel presents a fascinating trove of previously classified materi…

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Colin Kidd
Twilight of the Dons

The rise to power and eventual fall from grace of the Oxbridge intellectualAfter World War II, the academics of Oxford and Cambridge---the dons---formed an unusual kind of university-based, establishment-…

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From Calcutta with Love

Sometimes the most painful aspect of life is when one's contributions are forgotten.Such may be the case with service by Americans in the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II. From Calcutta with Love…

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Caroline Alexander
Skies of Thunder

'Riveting' - The New York TimesTHE LITTLE-KNOWN STORY OF THE ALLIES' FIGHT IN WWII'S CHAOTIC AND LETHAL CHINA BURMA-INDIA THEATER. In April 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army captured Burma, closing the onl…

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John Neumeier - Nijinsky

Nijinsky – Das Leben des Tanzgenies, choreografiert von John Neumeier Er war wohl der größte Balletttänzer aller Zeiten, aller Stile: Vaclav Nijinsky; und er war auch ein tragischer Charakter, denn sein…

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Matthew Lippman
Amy Mallard and Racial Justice

This book is the first to document the story of Amy Mallard, who sought justice through the legal system for the 1948 lynching of her husband in Georgia and later became an advocate for civil rights at th…

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Anthony Kaldellis
Phantom Byzantium

How the West appropriated aspects of the eastern Roman empire while portraying it as inferior.Unveiling the ideological foundations of Byzantine studies, Phantom Byzantium is a pioneering survey of wester…

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Debra Michals
She's the Boss

In the years after World War II, as women were being pushed from wartime jobs for returning soldiers, government and business leaders---and women themselves---saw small business ownership as a viable econ…

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