Bücher der Reihe World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension

Provides a comprehensive account of one of the most complex, and conflicted, arenas of the Second World War. Drawing on a range of sources, this book synthesizes political, military, social, economic, diplomatic, and cultural history.

Looks at how American soldiers, sailors, and Marines considered race, ethnicity, and identity in the planning and execution of the wartime occupation of Okinawa, during and immediately after the Battle of Okinawa, 1945-1946.

Analyzes Anglo-American and Italian literary, cinematic and military representations of World War II Italy in order to trace, critique and move beyond the gendered paradigm of redemption that has conditioned understandings of the Allied-Italian encounter.

The illuminating intellectual biography of one of the most controversial Italian figures of the twentieth century.

In this compelling book, G. Kurt Piehler and Sidney Pash bring together a collection of essays offering a fresh examination of American participation in the Second World War, including a long overdue reconsideration of such seminal topics as the forces le

As an Associated Press (AP) correspondent during World War-II, the author fought restrictions that prohibited him from scooping stories from a rival wire service. This title highlights the role of the Associated Press and the war correspondent as important links between the military and the American home front.

Offers a fresh examination of American participation in the Second World War

Presents a first person account of two of the heroes of World War II and of the love that they shared across the years and miles.

James Maurice Gavin left for war in April 1943 as a colonel commanding the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division. At war's end, this soldier had become one of our greatest generals. This book includes James Gavin's letters home to his daughter Barbara providing a portrait of the American experience in World War II.

A Pulitzer Prizewinning combat correspondent recounts his personal experience of covering World War II on the front lines. Legendary reporter Don Whitehead covered almost every important Allied invasion and campaign in Europefrom North Africa to landings in Sicily, Salerno, Anzio, and Normandy, and to the drive into Germany. His dispatches, published in Beachhead Don, are treasures of wartime journalism. From September 1942, as a freshly minted Associated Press journalist in New York, to the spring of 1943 as Allied tanks closed in on the Germans in Tunisia, he also kept a diary of his experiences as a rookie combat reporter. The diary stops in 1943, and it has remained unpublished until now. Later, Whitehead started work on a memoir of his extraordinary life in combat that would remain unfinished. In this book, John B. Romeiser has woven both the North African diary and Whitehead's memoir of the subsequent landings in Sicily into a vivid, unvarnished, and completely riveting story of eight months during some of the most brutal combat of the war. Here, Whitehead captures the fierce fighting in the African desert and Sicilian mountains, as well as rare insights into the daily grind of reporting from a war zone, where tedium alternated with terror. These writings by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner offer a unique and up-close view of the Second World Waras well as a reminder of the risks journalist take to bring us the first draft of history. ';No one bore witness better than Don Whitehead... this volume, deftly combining his diary and a previously unpublished memoir, brings Whitehead and his reporting back to life, and twenty-first-century readers are the richer for it.' from the foreword by Rick Atkinson

This fascinating book tells the remarkable story of an ordinary American woman's heroism in the French Resistance.

This fascinating book tells the remarkable story of an ordinary American woman's heroism in the French Resistance.

As an Army lieutenant, the author served in Tokyo as an intelligence officer. He translated thousands of letters, interviews, and other documents by Japanese citizens of all kinds, and came to know, as few Americans could, the hearts and minds of a defeated people as they moved slowly to democracy. This is a chronicle of his experience in Japan.

How did Japan and the United States end up at war on December 7, 1941? What American decisions might have provoked the Japanese decision to attack Pearl Harbor? In this classic study of the run up to World War II, Utley examines the ways domestic politics shaped America's response to Japanese moves in the Pacific.

"A marvelous story... will be consulted as long as World War II and the Spanish Civil War are studied... Cane is a very good writer." Frank F. Mathias, author of The GI Generation: A Memoir

Offers a portrait of home front Ohio, and how a young boy, his sister, and his mother waited out their war, scanning newspapers and magazines for news of Dad and devouring letters full of humor and expressions of love for and pride in his family and dreams of a good life after the war.

A historian examines why Hungary allied with the Nazis, and the devastating consequences for the country. The full story of Hungary's participation in World War II is part of a fascinating tale of rise and fall, of hopes dashed and dreams in tatters. Using previously untapped sources and interviews she conducted for this book, Deborah S. Cornelius provides a clear account of Hungary's attempt to regain the glory of the Hungarian Kingdom by joining forces with Nazi Germanya decision that today seems doomed to fail from the start. For scholars and history buffs alike, Hungary in World War II is a riveting read. After the First World War, the new country of Hungary lost more than 70 percent of its territory and saw its population reduced by nearly the same percentage. But in the early years of World War II, Hungary enjoyed boom timesand the dream of restoring the Hungarian Kingdom began to rise again. As the war engulfed Europe, Hungary was drawn into an alliance with Nazi Germany. When the Germans appeared to give Hungary much of its pre-World War I territory, Hungarians began to delude themselves into believing they had won their long-sought objective. Instead, the final year of the world war brought widespread destruction and a genocidal war against Hungarian Jews. Caught between two warring behemoths, the country became a battleground for German and Soviet forcesand in the wake of the war, Hungary suffered further devastation under Soviet occupation and forty-five years of communist rule. This is the story of a tumultuous time and a little-known chapter in the sweeping history of World War II.

In this concise, clearly written book, Thomas and Michael Christofferson provide a balanced introduction to every aspect of the French experience during World War II.

Over the course of five years, the Reserve Officers Association of the United States - the nation's oldest such professional military organization - invited its members to write about their experiences in World War II. This title deals with this topic.

One of the legendary reporters of World War II, the author covered important Allied invasion and campaign in Europe-from landings in Sicily, Salerno, and Anzio on the Italian front to Normandy, where he went ashore with the First Army Division. This book collects his dispatches that are classics of war journalism.