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Bew. van: Neem het over. - Leiden : Sijthoff, 1975. 238 p. : foto's. ; 22 cm.

The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) was an international relief agency representing 44 nations, but largely dominated by the United States. Founded in 1943, it became part of the United Nations (UN) in 1945, and it largely shut down operations in 1947. Its purpose was to "plan, co-ordinate, administer or arrange for the administration of measures for the relief of victims ...

This history of the German Marine Police (Wasserschutzpolizei) details the role that they played in the Second World War. They were deployed in almost all German-occupied countries, but were mainly used for conflicts with "partisans," especially in the region of Belarus and the Ukraine. Includes bibliographical references (pages 623-631) and index. 664 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Consists of 40 photographs taken at the American Military Tribunal in Dachau in November and December 1945 (also known as the Dachau war crimes trials). The photographs are from the first trial, the United States vs. Martin Gottfried Weiss et. al., in which forty defendants were charged in crimes related to the operation of the Dachau concentration camp. Weiss was the commandant of Dachau from 194 ...

Major Beale examines the role operations Deny Flight and Deliberate Force played in achieving a peaceful settlement to ethnic conflict in Bosnia-Herzegovina in the early 1990s. To help the reader understand the role Deny Flight and Deliberate Force played in getting a peace agreement signed, the author explains the political and historical context of the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. While Deny Flight ...

Comité d'histoire de la 2e Guerre Mondiale. 795 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

The U.S.-led intervention in Somalia that began in December 1992 is the most significant instance to date of "peacemaking" by the international community. The heady promise of Operation Restore Hope and the subsequent disappointments have had a resounding impact on the policies of Western governments and the UN as they have tried to cope with humanitarian emergencies in Rwanda, Bosnia, and elsewhere. ...

Selected files of the Executive Office, Office of Country Mission Affairs, and European Mission Affairs: Agreements to establish various country missions, postwar relief plans, reports, polices and analysis on displaced persons, health and medical requirements, field and intelligence reports and statistics on country field missions, European mission affairs, and miscellaneous correspondence.

Describes the military effort by which the Allies regained the continent of Europe in World War II. Maps on lining papers. 368 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Saul Sorrin (1919-1995) was recruited to work for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA). Sorrin initially worked as a supply officer based at the Neu Freimann camp outside of Munich before becoming area director of the Munich region in 1946. He oversaw the closing of the Neu Freimann camp when UNRRA transferred its operation to the International Refugee Organization (IRO) ...