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"War comes to Alaska tells thestory of the Dutch Harbor Attack from both the American and Japanese pointsof view. Kept secret for morale and securityreasons, the Japanese attack and ultimate invasion of Aleutians was off limits to the American press. Government leaders feared the outbreak of panic if Americans realized how close the Japanese were to the West Coast of the Lower 48 states. But Rourke ...

Il fondo conserva documentazione riguardante l’attività di ricerca svolta da Giorgio Rossi dal 1944, dapprima a Roma, per conto della Delegazione per l'assistenza degli emigranti ebrei (DELASEM) e dell'Organizzazione sionistica italiana, e poi, dalla metà del 1945, per conto dell’ufficio deportati della Comunità israelitica di Venezia. La documentazione consiste sia di richieste per ritrovare i dispersi ...

Trials of the Diaspora is a ground-breaking book that reveals the full history of anti-Semitism in England. Anthony Julius focuses on four distinct versions of English anti-Semitism. He begins with the medieval persecution of Jews, which included defamation, expropriation, and murder, and which culminated in 1290 when King Edward I expelled all the Jews from England. Turning to literary anti-Semitism, ...

Voor Theo van Roij was de oorlog in 1945 nog niet voorbij. Van 1948 tot 1950 was hij als dienstplichtig soldaat in Nederlands-Indië. Zijn dagboek geeft een onthutsend beeld van het leven daar.0Van februari 1948 tot mei 1950 hield de Limburger Theo van Roij, een katholiek opgevoede jongeman, een dagboek bij van het soldatenleven in Nederlands-Indië. Vol optimisme vertrokken, met de serieuze bedoeling ...

This is an innovative account of how the concept of comradeship shaped the actions, emotions and ideas of ordinary German soldiers across the two world wars and during the Holocaust. Using individual soldiers' diaries, personal letters and memoirs, Kuhne reveals the ways in which soldiers' longing for community, and the practice of male bonding and togetherness, sustained the Third Reich's pursuit ...

"Sport and the Home Front contributes in significant and original ways to our understanding of the social and cultural history of the Second World War. It explores the complex and contested treatment of sport in government policy, media representations and the everyday lives of wartime citizens. Acknowledged as a core component of British culture, sport was also frequently criticised, marginalised ...

"This fascinating story explores African-American efforts-- at war, at home, and in postwar community politics-- to achieve full citizenship in mid-twentieth-century America. Drawing on oral testimony, unpublished correspondence, archival records, memoirs, and diaries, Robert F. Jefferson explores the curious contradiction of war-effort idealism and entrenched discrimination through the experiences ...

The People's War lifts the Stalinist veil of secrecy to probe an almost untold side of World War II: the experiences of the Soviet people themselves. Going beyond dry and faceless military accounts of the eastern front of the "Great Patriotic War" and the Soviet state's one-dimensional "heroic People," this volume explores how ordinary citizens responded to the war, Stalinist leadership, and Nazi invasion. ...