Krieg

Manny Lawton was a twenty-three-year-old Army captain on April 8, 1942, when orders came to surrender to the Japanese forces invading the Philippine Islands. The next day, he and his fellow American and Filipino prisoners set out on the infamous Bataan Death March--a forced six-day, sixty-mile trek under a broiling tropical sun during which approximately eleven thousand men died or were bayoneted, clubbed, or shot to death by the Japanese. Yet terrible as the Death March was, for Manny Lawton and his comrades it was only the beginning. When the war ended in August 1945, it is estimated that some 57 percent of the American troops who had surrendered on Bataan had perished.But this is not a chronicle of despair. It is, instead, the story of how men can suffer even the most desperate conditions and, in their will to retain their humanity, triumph over appalling adversity. An epic of quiet heroism, Some Survived is a harrowing, poignant, and inspiring tale that lifts the heart.

The book is the first biography of Raphael Lemkin to draw on a comprehensive body of research into Lemkin as a person and his background and will be of interest to both non-specialists and academics.

Covering July through September 1942, this volume supplements and corrects data found in Volumes 6 and 7 of the WORLD WAR II SEA WAR series. As in Volumes 18-21, Volume 22 provides expanded data on Japanese ships, corrects old data entries. and adds new information in the General background sections to help form the context of the war, especially how the world leaders made decisions. This volume also adds new data on the Royal Indian Navy, German U-boats, and the Royal New Zealand Navy. Data on the following events has also been expanded:Japanese Fleet reorganization and the Japanese movements into New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.Greatly expanded information on the Battle of Savo Island.Operation PEDESTAL, the British re-supply of Malta.NEW information on Axis convoys between Italy and Libya and between Greece and Libya.The US preparations to secure its position in the Solomon Islands and on New Guinea Island.The US attacks on the Japanese troops on Attu and Kiska Islands.The Japanese planning for and the cancellation of a second attack in the Bay of Bengal.The British and Canadian attack on the port city of Dieppe, France.

Autor: Jürgen Möller, Festeinband, ca, 328 Seiten, ca. 262 Fotos und Abbildungen sowie 2 KartenBuchreihe: Kriegsende in Mitteldeutschland 1945 | Bd.17. - Erscheint im Herbst 2024ÜBER DAS BUCH:Der Band 17 der Buchreihe "Das Kriegsende in Mittedeutschland 1945" ist der vorletzte Band zur Darstellung der Besetzung der südlichen Teile Mit-teldeutschlands durch die amerikanischen Streitkräfte im April/Mai 1945. Nach dem Saaleübergang des VIII. und XII. US Corps der 3rd US Army zwi-schen Jena und Hof nähern sich Mitte April 1945 die Kämpfe in Südostthüringen und Westsachsen dem Ende. Lediglich entlang der westlichen Erzgebirgsrandes leisten sich Verbände der Deutschen Wehrmacht weiter verein-zelte Gefechte mit den überlegenen amerikanischen Panzerkräften. Mit diesen Kampfhandlungen bis zum Erreichen der Zwickauer Mulde und Weißen Elster von Zwickau bis zur deutsch-tschechischen Grenze bei Asch (AS) beschäftigt sich dieser Band, bevor der Band 18 das Ende des 2. Weltkriegs im Erzgebirge und die Kapitulation der Deutschen Wehrmacht im deutsch-tschechischen Grenzgebiet thematisiert.

Autor: Jürgen Möller, Festeinband, 316 Seiten mit 202 Abbildungen und 6 KartenBuchreihe: Kriegsende in Mitteldeutschland 1945 | Bd.16 ÜBER DAS BUCH:Der Band 16 der Buchreihe "Das Kriegsende in Mittedeutschland 1945" ist die Fortsetzung des Bandes 15 "Der Kampf um die Thüringer Waffenschmiede April 1945" und behandelt den Vormarsch der 26th und 90th US Infantry Division des XII. US Corps der 3rd US Army von der Linie Ilmenau - Neustadt am Rennsteig - Schleusingen - Hildburghausen durch das Thüringer Schiefergebirge und das nördliche Oberfranken bis zur Saale-Linie von südlich Saalfeld bis zum oberfränkischen Hof. Dabei erfolgt eine ausführlich Betrachtung der Einnahme der thüringischen Städte Eisfeld und Sonneberg, der Befreiung des KZ-Außenlagers "Laura" im Oertelsbruch bei Lehesten und der Sicherung der Saale-Talsperren. Ergänzend dazu erfolgt die Schilderung der Kampfhandlungen im Südab-schnitt des XII. US Corps einschließlich der Einnahme der oberfränkischen Städte Coburg, Kronach, Kulmbach und Bayreuth durch die 11th US Armored Division und 71st US Infantry Division.

Cet ouvrage explore un dossier politico-scientifique aujourd¿hui encore méconnu, celui du dépôt des munitions produites durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale par la Suisse et immergées, la paix revenue, par les autorités dans les lacs helvétiques. À une époque où les enjeux écologiques sont primordiaux pour notre avenir collectif planétaire, il s¿agit à la fois de comprendre les motivations et raisons de ce choix qui nous parait désormais antiécologique et les enjeux actuels de gestion ou non de ces déchets militaires. Fondé sur une approche interdisciplinaire, ce livre rend compte, dans une double perspective d¿historien des sciences et des sciences de la société, à la fois des décisions publiques ayant conduites à l¿immersion, des modalités techniques mises en ¿uvre pour y parvenir, des conditions de production de l¿oubli sociétal de ce méfait environnemental, du contexte de la redécouverte de ses dépôts et enfin des débats publics engagés autour d¿un risque jugé scientifiquement encore incertain. Sans préjuger des solutions techniques potentielles si les craintes d¿un risque potentiel ou avéré pour la santé humaine des riverains et pour les écosystèmes lacustres se confirmaient, ce livre rassemble pour le lecteur passionné¿par les questions environnementales toutes les informations et connaissances aujourd¿hui en notre possession pour ¿uvrer activement à l¿engagement durable citoyen.

« Outre les rapprochements novateurs entre les films de Minnelli et Demy, ce livre démontre admirablement qüil est non seulement possible mais important de fonder les approches esthétiques traditionnelles sur une analyse rigoureuse ancrée dans les gender studies. »(Phil Powrie, professeur émérite d¿études cinématographiques, University of Surrey, Royaume Uni)Au-delà de leurs univers oniriques souvent qualifiés d¿enchantés, les films musicaux et les mélodrames de Vincente Minnelli et de Jacques Demy témoignent des mutations socio-culturelles d¿après-guerre.Ces productions du cinéaste de la Nouvelle Vague et du grand représentant de l¿âge d¿or hollywoodien sont emblématiques d¿un style camp apprécié à la fois des publics populaires, des tenant·e·s du cinéma d¿auteur·trice et des sous-cultures queer.A partir d¿une analyse des masculinités articulée aux dimensions de sexualité, de classe et de race, le livre examine les représentations de genre entre la France et les États-Unis, à l¿heure où la Guerre froide, la société de consommation, la décolonisation, mais aussi les mouvements féministes globalisés transforment profondément les identités individuelles et collectives.L¿autrice explore comment les films de ces deux cinéastes, reconnus internationalement mais jamais rapprochés, façonnent des modèles de masculinités alternatives fondées sur des valeurs empathiques et inclusives.

A striking and engrossing account of one of the most devastating religious wars to ever befall Europe: the great Catholic-Protestant clash which saw at least 40 percent of the population of Germany killed.The work's written style makes this book not a dry history but a dramatic and attention-holding story, starting with an account of the origin of the conflict, and how these differences spiraled out of control into what became the possible one of Europe's most devastating wars of all time.The study also reveals how divisions within the Protestant forces--between Calvinists and Lutherans--allowed the Catholic forces to gain the upper hand, and how foreign powers-both Protestant and Catholic-sent invading armies to support their allied religious factions. By the end of the war, armies from Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, Spain, and France had tramped across Germany."Outrages of unspeakable atrocity were committed everywhere. Human beings were driven naked into the streets, their flesh pierced with needles, or cut to the bone with saws. Others were scalded with boiling water or hunted with fierce dogs. The horrors of a town taken by storm were repeated every day in the open country. Even apart from its excesses, the war itself was terrible enough."When Augsburg was besieged by the imperialists, after their victory at Nördlingen, it contained an industrious population of 70,000 souls. After a siege of seven months, 10,000 living beings, wan and haggard with famine, remained to open the gates to the conquerors . . ."The losses of the civil population were almost incredible. In a certain district of Thuringia which was probably better off than the greater part of Germany, there were, before the war cloud burst, 1,717 houses standing in nineteen villages. In 1649, only 627 houses were left. And even of the houses which remained many were untenanted. The 1,717 houses had been inhabited by 1,773 families. Only 316 families could be found to occupy the 627 houses."This new edition has been completely reformatted, reset, indexed, and contains fifteen new illustrations.

Frank Knox served as Secretary of the Navy during some of the most eventful years in U.S. naval history, his tenure coinciding with a number of dramas such as the innovative 1940 bases-for-destroyers initiative (which he conceptualized prior to entering the administration), the undeclared naval war in the Atlantic against Germany¿s U-boats in 1941, the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, the subsequent naval war in the Pacific, and naval landings in North Africa and Italy. Knox¿s most important contribution to the war effort was his leadership in building a 1,000-ship fleet, without which the much-heralded landings and battles might never have been possible. In this comprehensive biography, Christopher D. O¿Sullivan offers a portrait of the Roughrider in FDR¿s cabinet.

Als Kind einer jüdischen Mutter und eines nichtjüdischen Vaters durchlebten Marione Ingram und ihre Familie Diskriminierung und Ausgrenzung bis hin zur existenziellen Bedrohung durch die Gestapo. Während des »Feuersturms« im Sommer 1943 irrt die achtjährige Marione an der Hand ihrer Mutter durch die brennenden Straßen Hamburgs, weil ihnen kein Einlass in den schützenden Bunker ihres Hauses gewährt wird. Ironie des Schicksals: nur deshalb überleben sie, denn der Bunker wird in derselben Nacht zur Feuerfalle. Mit dem großen Evakuierungsstrom nach der »Operation Gomorrha« gelingt ihnen die Flucht aus der Stadt, später werden sie von einem kommunistischen Ehepaar versteckt. Mit 17 fasst Marione schließlich den Entschluss, in die USA auszuwandern ... In eindrucksvoller Dichte erzählt die Autorin in ihrem auch von der internationalen Presse hochgelobten Buch (Originaltitel »Hands of War«) von einer Kindheit und Jugend, die geprägt war von dem beklemmenden Gefühl der Unsicherheit und Bedrohung. Das lange vergriffene Buch erscheint in überarbeiteter Übersetzung.Eine Veröffentlichung des Instituts für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden.Mit freundlicher Unterstützung des Bertini-Preis e.V.

Second World War code-breaking turned on its head - the aces were German and the British were too weak for words

Mit dem Fokus Vernichtungsdenken fragt das neue Heft der Zeitschrift für Genozidforschung zum einen nach ideologischen Rahmungen, aber auch planerischen und strategisch-bürokratischen Aspekten genozidaler Vernichtungsprozesse, zum anderen nach den Möglichkeiten der kognitiven, reflexiv-narrativen Bewältigung der Erfahrung kollektiver Gewalt. Damit steht das Wissen um die Möglichkeit der Vernichtung im Zentrum des Interesses und somit die Frage, wie dieses Wissen den Status seiner Potentialität erlangen konnte, wie also Vernichtung in durchaus sehr unterschiedlichen Kontexten und Weltregionen gedacht werden konnte. Vernichtungsdenken betont somit die weltanschauliche Rahmung jeglicher genozidalerPolitik und politischer Massengewalt.Beiträge:Andreas Eckl: »Schier unverständliches Verhalten«. Der Krieg der OvaHerero 1904: Ein reiner Verteidigungs- und RückzugskriegJoana Krizanits: Organized Mass Killing in Forest near Sopron of Hungarian Jews deported to »Südostwall« forced labor camps, 1944/45Thomas Loer: Annullierte Reziprozität. Überlegungen zu einem zentralen Aspekt der nationalsozialistischen Vernichtungspraxis ausgehend von der Analyse einer Photographie aus Auschwitz.Joachim Savelsberg: Diaries and Bearing Witness of the Armenian Genocide: Micro-foundations of a Circle of Genocide KnowledgeLasse Wichert: »Der Große Austausch«. Vernichtungsängste und Vernichtungswünsche in (neu-)rechter Ideologie- und Literaturproduktion.

A German boy and his family find themselves as wards of the US military during WWII. This unique book documents the family's journey to a US Army garrison in Bavaria, a voyage by ship to New York City, and life on an Army Air Force Base as undocumented aliens.

This book explores how the eponymous and original Lingua Franca was recognized as a potential linguistic template for future military and colonial pidgins. The author traces the career trajectory of General Louis Faidherbe, a member of the French colonizing force in Algiers in the early 1830s and a recognized linguist, who rose up through the ranks in various African colonies and was the founder of regiments in West Africa, including the Senegal-based tirailleurs. Their artificially constructed military pidgin, Français Tirailleur, was a language modelled on the reduced grammar and lexicon of Lingua Franca. This book demonstrates the direct link between the two languages, as well as connections with other colonial pidgins in Asia that also derived to some extent from Lingua Franca. It will be of interest to students and scholars of language contact and language history, pidgins and creoles, and military and colonial history.

As a WWII tour director for thirty-five years, David Harper has repeatedly heard the same questions from an extremely varied American and British audience: ¿Why did the Germans vote for Hitler? Did they know about the concentration camps? What did German soldiers and members of the SS feel about the extermination camps and the war crimes they were committing? How do today¿s Germans view Hitler and the Third Reich? What is the country doing at present to address those dark pages of its history and to remember the victims of Hitler¿s regime? Do the right-wing demonstrations in Germany portend a resurgence of Nazi ideology today?¿ All these questions and many more are addressed in Exposing the Reich. The book seeks to promote an understanding of how the devastation and tragedy of the war and the concurrent genocide could happen. It studies the lethal blend of inciting hatred, ongoing indoctrination, justification for drastic action, and the complete control of all media. How many people know, for instance, that Hitler was writing an opera when he lived in Vienna or how he developed his antisemitic outlook while living there? Few know about the early political and ideological influences on Hitler¿s worldview, such as those instigated by his little-known mentor, Eckart. Who has ever heard about Hitler¿s ¿second book,¿ in which he revealed his major foreign policy plans, a manuscript that remained secret? How many realize that Hitler¿s regime planned on replacing Christianity with its own ¿religion¿ and substituting Mein Kampf for the Bible? Why did Hitler name his regime the ¿Third¿ Reich, and why did he choose the swastika as its logo? Why did the fine arts enjoy such an honored status during the Reich? What were the lesser-known original purposes of the concentration camp system established in Germany just weeks after Hitler seized power? Who realizes that, just prior to Hitler seizing power, the Jewish population in Germany was a mere 0.7%?These, and countless more insights regarding the Third Reich, are revealed in Exposing the Reich. From young students to well-informed history buffs, readers will gain a wealth of new insights into Hitler and his regime of terror.

Set in a small Appalachian town, The Caretaker by award-winning author Ron Rash is a breathtaking love story and a searing examination of the acts we seek to justify in the name of duty, family, honour, and love

The scale and organisation of the Roman army was unprecedented in the ancient Western world. This book tells the story of everyday aspects of the army in the heyday of the Roman Empire ¿ from life in a tent to the food soldiers consumed ¿ and explains its hierarchy, roles, equipment and place in a vast multi-ethnic society divided between citizens and subjects. Through this social evolution, the army gradually transformed the state it was established to protect. Innovations in military training and technology, including medicine, allowed common Roman soldiers to be as well-equipped as their generals and to have realistic prospects of surviving the 25 years of military service. This book dispels preconceived notions about the Roman army ¿ for example, that forts were exclusively the domain of male soldiers ¿ and addresses the violence committed by soldiers towards women, conquered subjects and enslaved peoples. The risks of becoming a soldier are also explored, especially the consequences for convicted soldiers (decimation, crucifixion or becoming amphitheatre entertainment). Most importantly, readers will discover a vivid picture of what life was really like in the Roman army, including how soldiers signed up and were trained; what life was like in tents, forts, and on the battlefield; and soldiers¿ dress, diets, health and relationships.

William the Silent and the Dutch Revolt examines the first stages of the Dutch struggle against Spanish rule during late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It is a key resource for scholars and students of early modern European history, as well as those interested in the history of revolts.

This book offers insights into the building of trust in Muslim communities through community engagement in a climate of counter-terrorism.

This book proposes a novel theoretical framework of 'interactive arming', in order to explain armament dynamics in contemporary Asia.

The aim of this book is to reconstruct the radical and transnational tradition of war volunteering connected to Giuseppe Garibaldi's legacy in Southern Europe between 1861 and 1945. The capacity of war volunteering to endure and persist over time has rarely been investigated in historiography.

Pacific Fortress, A History of the Seacoast Defenses of Hawaii is a revealing historical account of the U.S. Army's coastal defenses of Oahu. This work provides a thorough account of both the seacoast and anti-aircraft branches of the Coast Artillery Corps in this important American Pacific base. It presents a detailed chronicle of the building and operation of the defenses from shortly after the territory's occupation in 1907 through the tense pre-war period and the devastating Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 to the impressive wartime enhancements. At its culmination in 1945, Oahu boasted the strongest coast defenses of any American harbor. Compiling research from the National Archives and many primary sources this work describes in great detail the defensive plans as well as the fortifications built between 1904 and 1945. Consequently, it is simultaneously a "unit" history (the Coast Defense units stationed in the islands), a weapon /technical history (the artillery in the fixed gun batteries) and a combat history. The text is supported with thorough referenced endnotes, a bibliography, and eleven appendices listing all fortification sites. This 450-page, hardcover book is heavily illustrated with over 460 maps, plans, and period photographs, this work is the most comprehensive coverage of these defenses ever offered in print. The author, Glen M. Williford, has contributed an important addition to the body of knowledge on these historical defenses. It is a worthy companion to the earlier publication, Pacific Rampart, A History of Corregidor and the Harbor Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays by the same author and publishing team. Readers of both military and Hawaiian history will find this coverage fascinating.

This is a facsimile reprint of the 1886 edition. After its initial 3-month service, the 4th OVI mustered in for three years' service at Camp Dennison near Cincinnati, Ohio in June of 1861. It served in many minor and major battles, including Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, The Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg.