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Action Likely in Pacific - Secret Agent Kilsoo Haan, Pearl Harbor and the Creation of North Korea (Hardcover): John Koster Action Likely in Pacific - Secret Agent Kilsoo Haan, Pearl Harbor and the Creation of North Korea (Hardcover)
John Koster
R620 R551 Discovery Miles 5 510 Save R69 (11%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

A story of espionage that could have changed the course of history and saved thousands of American and British lives - and millions of Asian lives. 'On the night of 3 December 1941, I could not fall asleep,' Kilsoo Haan remembered. 'I went to the Chop Suey House, the Chinese Lantern, and ordered a bowl of Chinese soup. Next to my table, a Japanese was trying to sell a Chinese a second-hand automobile. After the Japanese left, the Chinese said to me, "You like to buy cheap automobile?" After a pause he said, "This Japanese is selling four automobiles owned by the Japanese Embassy workers because they are going to Japan pretty soon... Oh so cheap."' Four days later the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Before the Second World War, Korean-American Kilsoo Haan repeatedly warned the United States about the Japanese attack and accurately supplied every conceivable detail as relayed to him by Korean agents: midget submarines as well as aircraft at Pearl Harbor, then giant submarine aircraft carriers on the high seas that almost bombed San Diego with plague germs until Tojo cancelled the air strike, and a joint Chinese-Japanese attack - Operation Ichi-Go - against the American and Chinese Nationalist forces, which drove through Chiang Kai-shek's much larger army. When US political bungling helped to create a Communist North Korea, Haan continued to supply information about Soviet nuclear tests in Siberia, the development of Soviet guided missiles, and the North Korean invasion of the Republic of Korea, which led to thousands of American and British casualties. He was ignored. The story of American influence in Korea and dealings with Japan provides a little-known new perspective on the Pacific War and remains a factor today in international politics. Author John Koster explains the tragic and bloody entangled histories of Japan, China and Korea that form the backdrop to this extraordinary story.

The Women of the Arrow Cross Party - Invisible Hungarian Perpetrators in the Second World War (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Andrea... The Women of the Arrow Cross Party - Invisible Hungarian Perpetrators in the Second World War (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Andrea Peto
R1,767 Discovery Miles 17 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book analyses the actions, background, connections and the eventual trials of Hungarian female perpetrators in the Second World War through the concept of invisibility. It examines why and how far-right women in general and among them several Second World War perpetrators were made invisible by their fellow Arrow Cross Party members in the 1930s and during the war (1939-1945), and later by the Hungarian people's tribunals responsible for the purge of those guilty of war crimes (1945-1949). It argues that because of their 'invisibilization' the legacy of these women could remain alive throughout the years of state socialism and that, furthermore, this legacy has actively contributed to the recent insurgence of far-right politics in Hungary. This book therefore analyses how the invisibility of Second World War perpetrators is connected to twenty-first century memory politics and the present-day resurgence of far-right movements.

Filming the End of the Holocaust - Allied Documentaries, Nuremberg and the Liberation of the Concentration Camps (Hardcover):... Filming the End of the Holocaust - Allied Documentaries, Nuremberg and the Liberation of the Concentration Camps (Hardcover)
John J. Michalczyk
R4,581 Discovery Miles 45 810 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Filming the End of the Holocaust considers how the US Government commissioned the US Signal Corps and other filmmakers to document the horrors of the concentration camps during the April-May 1945 liberation. The evidence of the Nazis' genocidal actions amassed in these films, some of them made by Hollywood luminaries such as John Ford and Billy Wilder, would go on to have a major impact at the Nuremberg Trials; they helped to indict Nazi officials as the judges witnessed scenes of torture, human experimentation and extermination of Jews and non-Jews in the gas chambers and crematoria. These films, some produced by the Soviets, were integral to the war crime trials that followed the Holocaust and the Second World War, and this book provides a thorough, close analysis of the footage in these films and their historical significance. Using research carried out at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, the US National Archives and the film collection at the National Center for Jewish Film at Brandeis University, this book explores the rationale for filming the atrocities and their use in the subsequent trials of Nazi officials in greater detail than anything previously published. Including an extensive bibliography and filmography, Filming the End of the Holocaust is an important text for scholars and students of the Holocaust and its aftermath.

A Traitor's Guard - Quisling's bodyguard, the German occupation of Norway and Norwegian collaboration in the Second... A Traitor's Guard - Quisling's bodyguard, the German occupation of Norway and Norwegian collaboration in the Second World War (Hardcover)
Hugh Page Taylor
R2,041 Discovery Miles 20 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Theatre and War 1933-1945 - Performance in Extremis (Paperback): Michael Balfour Theatre and War 1933-1945 - Performance in Extremis (Paperback)
Michael Balfour
R879 Discovery Miles 8 790 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

On an April evening in 1934, on the River Arno in Florence, an air squadron, an infantry, a cavalry brigade, fifty trucks, four field and machine gun batteries, ten field radio stations, and six photoelectric units presented a piece of theatre. The mass spectacle, 18 BL involved over two thousand amateur actors and was performed before an audience of twenty thousand. 18 BL is one of eleven extraordinary essays collected together for the first time. The essays have been selected and edited from a wide range of publications dating from the 1940s to the 1990s. The authors are academics, cultural historians, and theatre practitioners - some with direct experience of the harsh conditions of Europe during the war. Each author critically assesses the function of theatre in times of world crisis, exploring themes of Fascist aesthetic propaganda in Italy and Germany, of theatre re-education programmes in the Gulags of Russia, of cultural "sustenance" for the troops at the front and interned German refugees in the UK, or cabaret shows as a currency for survival in Jewish concentration camps.

Organising Business for War - Corporatist Economic Organisation during the Second World War (Hardcover): Wyn Grant, Jan... Organising Business for War - Corporatist Economic Organisation during the Second World War (Hardcover)
Wyn Grant, Jan Nekkers, Frans Van Waarden
R4,583 Discovery Miles 45 830 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume presents a study of the Second World War as a period of crisis which brought about significant changes in the relationship between business and the state. The requirements of the war economy increased the power of the state but also showed the limits of such power. The comparative approach of this volume permits the exploration of such questions as the extent to which corporatist forms of cooperation between business and the state were created in wartime conditions; the effectiveness of the control exerted by such institutions; how far conditions of crisis affected the forms of economic organisation that emerged; and the long-term consequences of the emergence of new forms of economic organisation.

The Three-Year Swim Club - The Untold Story of Maui's Sugar Ditch Kids and Their Quest for Olympic Glory (Large print,... The Three-Year Swim Club - The Untold Story of Maui's Sugar Ditch Kids and Their Quest for Olympic Glory (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition)
Julie Checkoway
R1,271 R1,133 Discovery Miles 11 330 Save R138 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
World War II at the Movies - Volume I (Hardcover): Virginia Lyman Lucas World War II at the Movies - Volume I (Hardcover)
Virginia Lyman Lucas
R696 R629 Discovery Miles 6 290 Save R67 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Medicine Ethics and the Third Reich - Historical and Contemporary Issues (Paperback): John J. Michalczyk Medicine Ethics and the Third Reich - Historical and Contemporary Issues (Paperback)
John J. Michalczyk
R593 Discovery Miles 5 930 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Medical experimentation on human subjects during the Third Reich raises deep moral and ethical questions. This volume features prominent voices in the filed of bioethics reflecting on a wide rang of topics and issues. Amid all contemporary discussions of ethical in science, many ethicists, historians, Holocaust specialists and medical professionals strongly feel that we should understand the past in order to make more enlightened ethical decisions.

Immigrant Soldier - The Story of a Ritchie Boy (Hardcover, Second Anniversary ed.): Kathryn Lang-Slattery Immigrant Soldier - The Story of a Ritchie Boy (Hardcover, Second Anniversary ed.)
Kathryn Lang-Slattery
R733 Discovery Miles 7 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Safekeepers - A Memoir of the Arts of the End of World War II (Hardcover, Reprint 2015): Walter I. Farmer The Safekeepers - A Memoir of the Arts of the End of World War II (Hardcover, Reprint 2015)
Walter I. Farmer; Edited by Klaus Goldmann; Introduction by Margaret Farmer Planton
R3,550 Discovery Miles 35 500 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The former US Army captain Walter I. Farmer was stationed with the American Forces in Germany after WW II. In 1945, he worked hard to protect important European and German cultural heritage artifacts, such as paintings and sculptures, from being transported to the United States. Together with other officers of the U.S. Army, who took on this task, Farmer wrote the "Wiesbadener Manifest" which resulted in the artifacts remaining in Germany and they can still be seen in German museums today. In 1996, Farmer was awarded the "Bundesverdienstkreuz" for his outstanding work. Besides being a personal account, this autobiography presents an important document of present-day history. It is completed by an extensive list of documents and archive material.

my Odyssey thru Hell (Hardcover): Hans Gruber my Odyssey thru Hell (Hardcover)
Hans Gruber
R652 Discovery Miles 6 520 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939 - The Baltic Case (Hardcover, New): I. L. Vizulis The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939 - The Baltic Case (Hardcover, New)
I. L. Vizulis
R2,764 Discovery Miles 27 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume analyzes the effects of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939 on the Baltic States and Eastern Europe. This Nazi-Soviet non-aggression treaty catapulted into worldwide consciousness this summer as a 370-mile human Freedom chain denied its legitimacy. Stretching across Baltic nation-states, the chain's human links proclaimed the password Freedom. Secret protocols contained in this Treaty led to fifty years of Soviet occupation. In the atmosphere of glasnost and peristroika, Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians now demand restoration of their human and national rights and decolonization. While the news media focuses upon these events, this volume details the historical causes of the Treaty, its contemporary consequences, and its present day challenge.

With the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia put aside their ideological difference and practiced expedient politics. Eastern Europe and the Baltic States were partitioned into German and Russian spheres of influence. This fifty year old pact continues to effect the Baltic States. It focuses our attention sharply on the consequences of secret deals made without regard to national and human rights. On the frontline of Soviet defense, the Baltic challenge to the Soviet Union has worldwide implications. After decades of denying their existence, the Soviet Union in August, 1989, finally admitted that the secret protocols of 1939 were an historical fact. However, they continued to deny that the protocols had any bearing on the incorporation of the Baltic States into the Soviet Union. As of this writing, it seems evident that notwithstanding the era of glasnost, the Soviet government still lacks the determination to state the truth: that the incorporation of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania was an act of aggression, carried out against the will of sovereign peoples.

Medicine and Medical Ethics in Nazi Germany - Origins, Practices, Legacies (Paperback): Francis R. Nicosia, Jonathan Huener Medicine and Medical Ethics in Nazi Germany - Origins, Practices, Legacies (Paperback)
Francis R. Nicosia, Jonathan Huener
R765 Discovery Miles 7 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"Brief and synthetic as the essays are, they will . . . be of most use to students or to those new to the field. However, they provide engaging reading for those with more in-depth knowledge too." . Journal of Modern History "Educators and students owe a debt of gratitude . . . all of the articles in this anthology are readily accessible to the non-specialist without compromising the cutting-edge scholarship that informs them." . ISIS "This in an engrossing book . . . morally challenging to all physicians." . Journal of the American Medical Association ." . . extraordinarily valuable essays combine perspectives from history, sociology, demography, and anthropology." . Choice ." . . excellent orientation for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as physicians and the general public . . . All in all, this is a stimulating set of essays that deserves a wide readership." . H-German The participation of German physicians in medical experiments on innocent people and mass murder is one of the most disturbing aspects of the Nazi era and the Holocaust. Six distinguished historians working in this field are addressing the critical issues raised by these murderous experiments, such as the place of the Holocaust in the larger context of eugenic and racial research, the motivation and roles of the German medical establishment, and the impact and legacy of the eugenics movements and Nazi medical practice on physicians and medicine since World War II. Francis R. Nicosia is professor of History at Saint Michael's College in Vermont where he teaches courses on modern German and European history and the Holocaust. Jonathan Huener is assistant professor of History at the University of Vermont where he teaches courses on the Holocaust, German history, and Polish history."

General Chennault's Replacement Crews (Hardcover): Bruce S. Bud Sholl, Bruce S Sholl General Chennault's Replacement Crews (Hardcover)
Bruce S. Bud Sholl, Bruce S Sholl
R860 Discovery Miles 8 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Enemy Within - Hucksters, Racketeers, Deserters, and Civilians During the Second World War (Hardcover): Donald Thomas The Enemy Within - Hucksters, Racketeers, Deserters, and Civilians During the Second World War (Hardcover)
Donald Thomas
R1,789 Discovery Miles 17 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

View the Table of Contents. Read the Preface.

"This fascinating account, told in relentless detail, deserves a wide readership."--"Choice"

International Acclaim: "Thomas has written a quite enchanting book, magnificently researched, and cleverly and wittily presented. . . . I cannot recommend this book highly enough. Quite outstanding."
--"The Irish Times"

"[This] book is mesmerizing and is an unputdownable and brilliantly researched page-turner. An important and riveting study in social history."
--"The Sunday Times"

"Donald Thomas has chronicled one of the last untold stories of the war, and he does so with scholarship as well as humor."
--"The Spectator"

"Beautifully written, utterly compelling: almost without fault in every respect."
--"The Literary Review"

While the Second World War produced numerous acts of self-sacrifice, it also made many people rich. The criminal activities of the British underworld that extended from the civilian population right through to the armed forces constitute one of the great untold stories of the war. The Blitz of 1940 may have made a nation of heroes, but in the shadows the shelter gangs and looters prowled.

Acclaimed author Donald Thomas draws on extensive archival material for these tales of profiteering. He retells how between 1940 and 1941 a Liverpool ship repairer cheated the government of the modern equivalent of $30 million, while $120 million a month was looted from relief supplies at the port of Trieste. Professional gangs raided British government offices for ration books, and underground presses counterfeited gasoline and clothing coupons by the tens of thousands. Illegal food supplies threatened the nation'shealth--a consignment of black market sausages in Hackney contained tuberculous meat, while the industrial alcohol, or "hooch," served to pilots in London's West End clubs could produce blindness and brain damage.

The Enemy Within also recounts colossal theft within the army. Vehicles would arrive at front line railheads stripped of tools, spare parts, and removable components, and whole consignments of cigarettes and razor blades disappeared.

In addition to these stories, The Enemy Within includes revealing photos of known law-breakers, victims, and illegal transactions. The facts Thomas uncovers are often so preposterous that in a novel they would seem unbelievable. These are the extraordinary and often absurd stories of less-than-heroic Britons.

American Military History Volume 2 - The United States Army in a Global Era, 1917-2010 (Hardcover): Richard W. Stewart American Military History Volume 2 - The United States Army in a Global Era, 1917-2010 (Hardcover)
Richard W. Stewart
R2,362 Discovery Miles 23 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
General Chennault's Secret Weapon - The B-24 in China (Hardcover, New): A. B Feuer General Chennault's Secret Weapon - The B-24 in China (Hardcover, New)
A. B Feuer
R2,783 Discovery Miles 27 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book records the World War II experiences of Captain Elmer E. Haynes, who flew low-altitude night radar strikes against Japanese shipping in the South China Sea, and daylight raids against various enemy land based installations in eastern and central China. Haynes flew secretly developed B-24 Liberator bombers that were equipped with radar which had been integrated with the Norden bombsight for night missions. These B-24's operated with the 14th Air Force--General Chennault's Flying Tigers. The bombing attacks were so accurate and successful that, in a little over a year, Haynes and his fellow pilots had sunk approximately a million tons of Japanese shipping. Due to the Top Secret classification of this equipment, the story of the radar B-24's, operating with the Flying Tigers, has never before been told.

The war in the Pacific was definitely brought to a quicker end by the devastating destruction caused by the sinking of such a tremendous number of Japanese merchant and naval vessels in the South China Sea. In its three years of operation, the 14th Air Force was credited with sinking two and a half million tons of enemy shipping. The radar-equipped B-24's were also used on reconnaissance missions--locating Japanese convoys for U.S. naval ships and submarines. Military historians, and anyone interested in World War II, will find this story highly informative, since it discloses never before published facts about the development of radar systems by the United States. This same radar technique was used by B-17's during the saturation night bombing raids over Germany.

Mayoral Collaboration under Nazi Occupation in Belgium, the Netherlands and France, 1938-46 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Nico... Mayoral Collaboration under Nazi Occupation in Belgium, the Netherlands and France, 1938-46 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Nico Wouters
R4,298 Discovery Miles 42 980 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book explores the role of mayors in navigating the realities of living and governing under Nazi occupation. In Western Europe under Nazi occupation, mayors of villages and cities were forced into strategic cooperation with the occupier. Mayors had to provide good governance, mediate between occupier and populations, maintain personal legitimacy, and build local consensus. However, as national systems underwent authoritarian reform and collaborationists infiltrated administrations, local governments were gradually turned into instruments of Nazi control and repression. Nico Wouters uses rich new archival data to compare the realities of local government in three countries. Looking at topics such as food supply, public order and safety, forced labour, the repression of resistance, the persecution of the Jews and post-war purges, this book redefines our knowledge of collaboration, resistance and accommodation during Nazi occupation.

The British Empire and its Italian Prisoners of War, 1940-1947 (Hardcover): B. Moore, K. Fedorowich The British Empire and its Italian Prisoners of War, 1940-1947 (Hardcover)
B. Moore, K. Fedorowich
R2,632 Discovery Miles 26 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

During the Second World War, British and Imperial forces captured more than half a million Italian soldiers, sailors and airmen. Although a symbol of military success, these prisoners created a multitude of problems for the authorities throughout the war. This book looks at how the British addressed these problems and turned liabilities into assets by using the Italians as a labor force, a source of military intelligence and as a political warfare tool before their final repatriation in 1946-47.

Fashion Under the Occupation (Hardcover, English): Miriam Kochan Fashion Under the Occupation (Hardcover, English)
Miriam Kochan; Dominique Veillon
R4,234 Discovery Miles 42 340 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Before the outbreak of WWII, French fashion represented the very pinnacle of style, and French women the epitome of chic. At home and abroad, couturiers' wealthy clients eagerly awaited the latest collections, and design houses throughout the world looked to Paris for inspiration. Unparalleled for glamour and elegance, all things French were noted and emulated - and especially French fashion.One morning in September 1939, into this idyllic world of haute couture and Cafe society came the shattering experience of war, followed by the German Occupation. French women, determined not to give way to the inevitable austerities, sought innovation: hats made from blotting paper or newspapers - the latter signalling political allegiances - and blouses made out of parachute silk, often obtained through dubious means. Not only did life go on, but creativity flourished - culottes, which enabled stylish bicycle journeys, became the vogue, and couturiers capitalized on deprivation with wit - dubbing designs 'Coal' and 'Black Coffee', or naming an entire collection after Metro stops.Fashion under the Occupation provides the only in-depth history of these blackest years in French history, long overlooked by fashion history because of the impoverished industry and deprivations that affected design. Widely acknowledged as the authoritative work on fashion during this period, it is available in English for the first time and will be essential reading for anyone interested in fashion, French cultural history, and particularly the German Occupation of France.

Angels Eight - Normandy Air War Diary (Hardcover, Illustrated Ed): David Clark Angels Eight - Normandy Air War Diary (Hardcover, Illustrated Ed)
David Clark
R809 Discovery Miles 8 090 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Book of Klobucko; In Memory of a Martyred Community - Translation of Sefer Klobutsk; Mazkeret Kavod le-Kkehila ha-Kkedosha... The Book of Klobucko; In Memory of a Martyred Community - Translation of Sefer Klobutsk; Mazkeret Kavod le-Kkehila ha-Kkedosha she-Ushmeda (Hardcover)
A Wolff Jasny; Edited by Allan D Mantel
R1,397 R1,188 Discovery Miles 11 880 Save R209 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
German Order of Battle - Panzer, Panzer Grenadier, and Waffen Ss Divisions in WWII (Paperback): Samuel W. Mitcham Jr German Order of Battle - Panzer, Panzer Grenadier, and Waffen Ss Divisions in WWII (Paperback)
Samuel W. Mitcham Jr
R434 Discovery Miles 4 340 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is the definitive book on the organizational and technical aspects of the German ground forces--the infantry, panzer, panzer grenadier, motorized, Waffen-SS, mountain, parachute, Jaeger, light, Luftwaffe field, and flak divisions--that swept across Europe with such ruthless efficiency in 1939 and 1940 and battled Allied forces until the bloody end. It is the most comprehensive and accessible reference work on the German Army during World War II yet published, unmatched in the information it compiles while tracing each German division from inception to destruction.

1945 (Hardcover): William Abbott 1945 (Hardcover)
William Abbott
R770 Discovery Miles 7 700 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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