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"Holocaust Remembrance Between the National and the Transnational"
provides a key study of the remembrance of the Jewish Catastrophe
and the Nazi-era past in the world arena. It uses a range of
primary documentation from the restitution conferences, speeches
and presentations made at the Stockholm International Forum of 2000
(SIF 2000), a global event and an attempt to mark a defining moment
in the inter-cultural construction of the political and
institutional memory of the Holocaust in the USA, Europe and
Israel. Containing oral history interviews with British delegates
to the conference and contemporary press reports, this book
explores the inter-relationships between global and national
Holocaust remembrances.The causes, consequences and 'cosmopolitan'
intellectual context for understanding the SIF 2000 are discussed
in great detail. Larissa Allwork examines this seminal moment in
efforts to globally promote the important, if ever controversial,
topics of Holocaust remembrance, worldwide Genocide prevention and
the commemoration of the Nazi past. Providing a balanced assessment
of the Stockholm Project, this book is an important study for those
interested in the remembrance of the Holocaust and the Third Reich,
as well as the recent global direction in memory studies.""
Escape from Corregidor is the harrowing account of Edgar Whitcomb,
a B-17 navigator who arrives in World War II Philippines just
before its invasion by the Japanese. Whitcomb evades the enemy on
Bataan by fleeing to Corregidor Island in a small boat. He is
captured but later manages to escape at night in an hours-long swim
to safety. Captured once again weeks later, Whitcomb is imprisoned,
tortured and starved, before being transferred to China and
eventual freedom.
This is the remarkable story of one of the Second World War's most
unusual animal heroes - a 14-stone St Bernard dog who became global
mascot for the Royal Norwegian Forces and a symbol of freedom and
inspiration for Allied troops throughout Europe. From a happy and
carefree puppyhood spent as a family pet in the Norwegian fishing
town of Honningsvag, the gentle giant Bamse followed his master at
the outbreak of the war to become a registered crew member of the
mine-sweeper Thorodd. Often donning his own steel helmet as he took
his place in the Thorodd's bow gun turret, Bamse cut an impressive
figure and made a huge contribution to the morale of the crew, and
he gallantly saved the lives of two of them. After Norway fell to
the Germans in 1940, the Thorodd operated from Dundee and Montrose,
where Bamse became a well-known and much-loved figure, shepherding
the Thorodd's crew-members back to the boat at pub closing time,
travelling on the local buses, breaking up fights and even taking
part in football matches. Mourned both by locals and Norwegians
when he died in 1944, Bamse's memory has been kept alive both in
Norway, where he is still regarded as a national hero, and in
Montrose, where a larger-than-life statue of him was unveiled in
2006 by HRH Prince Andrew. Written from extensive source material
and eyewitness accounts, Sea Dog Bamse is a fitting tribute to the
extraordinary life of an extraordinary dog.
In A World At War, 1911-1949, leading and emerging scholars of the
cultural history of the two world wars begin to break down the
traditional barriers between the historiographies of the two
conflicts, identifying commonalities as well as casting new light
on each as part of a broader mission, in honour of Professor John
Horne, to expand the boundaries of academic exploration of warfare
in the 20th century. Utilizing techniques and approaches developed
by cultural historians of the First World War, this volume
showcases and explores four crucial themes relating to the
socio-cultural attributes and representation of war that cut across
both the First and Second World Wars: cultural mobilization, the
nature and depiction of combat, the experience of civilians under
fire, and the different meanings of victory and defeat.
Contributors are: Annette Becker, Robert Dale, Alex Dowdall, Robert
Gerwarth, John Horne, Tomas Irish, Heather Jones, Alan Kramer,
Edward Madigan, Anthony McElligott, Michael S. Neiberg, John Paul
Newman, Catriona Pennell, Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses, Daniel Todman,
and Jay Winter. See inside the book.
Despite the wealth of historical literature on the Second World
War, the subject of religion and churches in occupied Europe has
been undervalued - until now. This critical European history is
unique in delivering a rich and detailed analysis of churches and
religion during the Second World War, looking at the Christian
religions of occupied Europe: Catholicism, Lutheranism, Calvinism,
and Orthodoxy. The authors engage with key themes such as relations
between religious institutions and the occupying forces; religion
as a key factor in national identity and resistance; theological
answers to the Fascist and National Socialist ideologies,
especially in terms of the persecution of the Jews; Christians as
bystanders or protectors in the Holocaust; and religious life
during the war. Churches and Religion in the Second World War will
be of great value to students and scholars of European history, the
Second World War and religion and theology.
During World War II, this guide to identifying warplanes was given
by Richfield Oil distributors and dealers to their customers with
the proviso: "In making this book available to the public, the
Richfield Oil Corporation of New York has revealed no information
which would be of aid to the enemies of our country. All items
included in the contents have been compiled from established,
trustworthy sources and constitute general information designed to
aid the layman in identifying friendly and hostile aircraft."
Facsimile Reprint]
French Intellectuals at a Crossroads examines a broad array of
interrelated subjects: the effect of World War I on France's
intellectual community, the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the rise
of international communism, calls for pacifism, the creation of an
"Intellectuals' International of the Mind," the debate over the
myth of the disengaged intellectual, the apolitical group of
"intellectuels non-conformistes," and, finally, the challenges of
surrealism. Together, these developments reflected the diversity of
intellectual commitment in France in the uncertain and troubled
1920s and 1930s. The interwar period also witnessed France's
relative decline, as expressed in a move from a mood of immense
relief coupled with a feeling of debilitating fatigue to an
inward-looking, pessimistic, and defeatist outlook that presaged
World War II and national collapse.
Stephen Bungay' s magisterial history is acclaimed as the account
of the Battle of Britain. Unrivalled for its synthesis of all
previous historical accounts, for the quality of its strategic
analysis and its truly compulsive narrative, this is a book
ultimately distinguished by its conclusions - that it was the
British in the Battle who displayed all the virtues of efficiency,
organisation and even ruthlessness we habitually attribute to the
Germans, and they who fell short in their amateurism,
ill-preparedness, poor engineering and even in their old-fashioned
notions of gallantry. An engrossing read for the military scholar
and the general reader alike, this is a classic of military history
that looks beyond the mythology, to explore all the tragedy and
comedy; the brutality and compassion of war.
The string of military defeats during 1942 marked the end of
British hegemony in Southeast Asia, finally destroying the myth of
British imperial invincibility. The Japanese attack on Burma led to
a hurried and often poorly organized evacuation of Indian and
European civilians from the country. The evacuation was a public
humiliation for the British and marked the end of their role in
Burma."The Evacuation of Civilians from Burma" investigates the
social and political background to the evacuation, and the
consequences of its failure. Utilizing unpublished letters,
diaries, memoirs and official reports, Michael Leigh provides the
first comprehensive account of the evacuation, analyzing its source
in the structures of colonial society, fractured race relations and
in the turbulent politics of colonial Burma.
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