World War II Books

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11. Disability and/in Prose

    Edited by Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Marian E. Lupo

    Through a series of critical essays this book concerns itself with the relationships and possibilities in and between "prose" and "disability". The critical and/or personal essays in this book all try to explore this potent inbetween space – a place full of possibilities. These prose pieces reflect...

    Published February 19th 2009 by Routledge
12. War Crimes Tribunals and Transitional Justice

    The Tokyo Trial and the Nuremburg Legacy

    By Madoka Futamura

    Series: Contemporary Security Studies

    Advocates of the ‘Nuremberg legacy’ emphasize the positive impact of the individualization of responsibility and the establishment of an historical record through judicial procedures for ‘war crimes’. This legacy has been cited in the context of the establishment and operation of the UN ad hoc...

    Published November 14th 2008 by Routledge
13. The Western European and Mediterranean Theaters in World War II

    An Annotated Bibliography of English-Language Sources

    By Donal Sexton

    Series: Routledge Research Guides to American Military Studies

    The Western European and Mediterranean Theaters in World War II is a concise, comprehensive guide for students, teachers, and history buffs of the Second World War. With an emphasis on the American forces in these theaters, each entry is accompanied by a brief annotation that will allow researchers...

    Published August 19th 2008 by Routledge
14. International Business and National War Interests

    Unilever between Reich and empire, 1939-45

    By Ben Wubs

    Series: Routledge International Studies in Business History

    This book deals with the activities of the Anglo-Dutch multinational during the war. Given the various threats faced by Unilever during the Nazi period, Ben Wubs argues that it was not self evident that the company would survive the war. Based on research into company sources which were hitherto...

    Published June 10th 2008 by Routledge
15. Clerical Fascism in Interwar Europe

    Edited by Matthew Feldman, Marius Turda, Tudor Georgescu

    Series: Totalitarianism Movements and Political Religions

    This edited volume arose from an international workshop convened in 2006 by Feldman and Turda with Tudor Georgescu, supported by Routledge, and the universities of Oxford, Brookes, Northampton and CEU (Budapest). As the field of fascist studies continues to integrate more fully into pan-European...

    Published May 23rd 2008 by Routledge
16. Nineteenth-Century Worlds

    Global formations past and present

    Edited by Keith Hanley, Greg Kucich

    This volume assembles a wide range of studies that together provide—through their interdisciplinary range, international scope, and historical emphases—an original scholarly exploration of one of the most important topics in recent nineteenth-century studies: the emergence in the nineteenth century...

    Published April 23rd 2008 by Routledge
17. The Independent State of Croatia 1941-45

    Edited by Sabrina P. Ramet

    Series: Totalitarianism Movements and Political Religions

    This special issue provides important new scholarship from a variety of perspectives on the structure, ideology and political history of the central fascist group in interwar and Second World War Yugoslavia, the Croatian Ustasha. It is the first volume in English to closely explore the Ustasha’s...

    Published December 19th 2007 by Routledge
18. Japanese-American Civilian Prisoner Exchanges and Detention Camps, 1941-45

    By Bruce Elleman

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

    The important and previously undocumented event in the history of the Second World War: the negotiation of 'prisoner' exchanges between the United States and Japan during 1941 to 1943, is examined here by Bruce Elleman.Approximately 7000 American citizens had been arrested by the Japanese...

    Published November 30th 2007 by Routledge
19. The Normandy Campaign 1944

    Sixty Years On

    Edited by John Buckley

    Series: Military History and Policy

    With essays from leading names in military history, this new book re-examines the crucial issues and debates of the D-Day campaign. It tackles a range of core topics, placing them in their current historiographical context, to present new and sometimes revisionist interpretations of key issues...

    Published June 18th 2007 by Routledge
20. Naval Blockades and Seapower

    Strategies and Counter-Strategies, 1805-2005

    Edited by Bruce Allen Elleman, Sarah C.M. Paine

    This new collection of scholarly, readable, and up-to-date essays covers the most significant naval blockades of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Here the reader can find Napoleon’s Continental Blockade of England, the Anglo-American War of 1812, the Crimean War, the...

    Published March 12th 2007 by Routledge