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With over 250 illustrations including 32 maps and 28 tables, this double sided concertina-style timechart features European Theatre of War on one side and Pacific/South-East Asia on the other. All theatres of war are in context, chronologically presented. Also, campaigns are chronicled, illustrated and mapped. ... Read more

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Today is Friday.The end of an empire
I read this short, correct and unbiased book, here in Brazil.This short book has many photos; all of them black & white photos.It was writen about forty years ago, when many World War II important veterans were alive.This book is very short, but tells one true:no english general could defeat japaneses in 1941 to 19442.This english defeat was the begining of the end of British Empire, in Asia. ... Read more

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A good introduction about bombers in World War II
I read this book, here in Brazil.This book has many photos; all of them black & white photos.This book is also short, concise and easy to read.The failures of this book are small.One of them is to remember the route whom permited England has so many aircrafts, donated by USA.An scale of this route was Brazil.About the real military results of this offensive so expensive in money, lives,etc. for the bomber offensive, this book is also weak.This is a good and concise introduction, not a book for experts. ... Read more

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Gay and Lesbian Literature Since World War II chronicles the multifaceted explosion of gay and lesbian writing that has taken place in the second half of the twentieth century. Encompassing a wide range of subject matter and a balance of gay and lesbian concerns, it includes work by established scholars as well as young theoreticians and archivists who have initiated new areas of investigation. The contributors’examinations of this rich literary period make it easy to view the half-century from 1948 to 1998 as the Queer Renaissance.

Included in Gay and Lesbian Literature Since World War II are critical and social analyses of literary movements, novels, short fiction, periodicals, and poetry as well as a look at the challenges of establishing a repository for lesbian cultural history. Specific chapters in this groundbreaking work trace the development of gay poetry in America after World War II; examine how AIDS is represented in the first four Latino novels to deal with the subject matter; and chronicle the birth of lesbian-feminist publishing in the 1970s--showing how it created a flourishing gay literature in the 1980s and 1990s. Other chapters:

• outline the history of The Ladder from its initial publication in 1956 as the official vehicle of the Daughters of Bilitis to its final issue as a privately published literary magazine in 1972
• examine Baldwin’s 1962 novel Another Country and discuss the complicated critical history of this work and its relation to Baldwin’s literary reputation--racial, sexual, and political factors are taken into account
• chart how Other Voices, Other Rooms, by Truman Capote, and The House of Breath, by William Goyen, reveal contradictory genderings of male homosexuality--suggesting an absence of a unified model of mid-twentieth-century male homosexuality
• argue that the 1976 novel Lover, by Bertha Harris, can be considered an exemplary novel within discussions of both postmodern fiction and lesbian theory. (The author calls for Harris to be added to the group of writers such as Wittig, Anzaldúa, Lorde, and Winterson, who are discussed within the context of a postmodern lesbian narrative.)
• examine the short fiction of Canadian lesbian novelist Jane Rule in an effort to shed light on lesbian creative practice in the homophobic climate of postwar North America
• argue for an understanding of Dale Peck’s novel Martin and John as an attempt to link two apparently different processes of import to contemporary male subjects through examination of the novel alongside selected passages from Nietzsche and Freud
• focus on the pragmatic issues of developing and maintaining accessible research venues from which to cultivate the study of racial and cultural diversity in lesbian lives
• Document the history of the Lesbian Herstory Archives, one of the first lesbian-specific collections in the world, from its birth in the early 1970s to the present.

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The Art of War: The Posters of WWII is a Raintree title. ... Read more

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Massive History of a Legendary B-24 Unit!
The 376th Bombardment Group - 'The Liberandos' - can claim many WWII honors including Oldest USAAF Bomb Group Operating Overseas, Only BG to be Formed Overseas, First BG to Operate in the MTO, First BG to Bomb Targets on the European Continent, Lead Formation on the Low-Level August 1943 Ploesti Mission, First BG to be Based on the European Continent, etc. The life and times of this outstanding unit are winningly told in this book by author James Walker and the 376th H.B.G. Veterans Association.

The 376th BG, created out of the Halpro Project/1st BG (Prov.) in October 1942, was assigned successively to the 9th, 12th and 15th Air Forces. It flew 451 missions, lost 169 aircraft and was awarded three Distinguished Unit Citations.

The 376th is most identified with the ill-fated Ploesti mission. The Liberandos, commanded by Group CO K. K. Compton, led the five-group strike. Due in part to poor mission planning and a navigational mistake on Compton's part, the strike was not as successful as hoped for. Since Walker had access to many of the Liberandos who flew the Ploesti mission, his account is quite complete and also helps correct several myths that have grown up over the strike.

Using the membership and resources of the 376th Veterans group, Walker crafted this massive, 613-page tribute to the Liberandos which covers every aspect of the Group's activities - combat ops, camp life, group personalities, etc. The Group comes to life thanks to the many first-person reminiscences included. Over 670 photographs, maps and charts can be found in the book as well as color side-views of Liberando B-24s, color illustrations of the Group's insignia and dynamite cover artwork.

If the book has a failing, it's in the fact that Walker did not compare Group claims of enemy aircraft shot down, ships sunks, etc. against German loss records. (And, to cut him some slack, he may not have been aware of or had access to such records).

Aside from that caveat, THE LIBERANDOS is quite an accomplishment and quite an accomplished work. In all likelihood, Walker's book will stand as THE definitive work on this exceptional Air Force unit.

*****
Published in 1994 and long out of print, the book is being reprinted by the 376th HBG Association. Check out their website for details. ... Read more

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This book uses a range of newspaper articles written during the Second World War to look at events on the home front in Britain. Topics include women's work, the Blitz, rationing, the home guard and propaganda. Each newspaper article is accompanied by text which sets it in historical context, as well as an evaluation box which will discuss the article in terms of its usefulness as a piece of historical evidence. ... Read more

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The events in Eastern Europe and Ukraine during World War II are generally little known and often misunderstood, even though it was here that the war lasted the longest and caused devastation on an unprecedented scale. Millions either lost their lives or became slave labourers. In some areas, underground resistance to Nazi and later Soviet rule did not subside until the early 1950s. This book will interest those concerned with the history of Ukraine during World War II, as well as the controversy over the presence of alleged war criminals in Canada and the United States.

Contributors include Orest Subtelny, Bohdan Krawchenko, Peter J. Potichnyj, and many others. Augmenting the articles is a 9-page transcript from a press conference discussing Canadian war-crimes investigations, photographs, extensive documentary materials, a chronology of events, and a detailed bibliography.

Ukraine during World War II is a comprehensive guide to one of the most complex aspects of modern East European history. ... Read more

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This lively black and white series aims to make history into an interesting read. Each title is the chatty personal diary of a teenager, set against the background of a specific historical time. The books include details of daily life, relations with family and friends, jokes and humorous events, doubts, hopes and dreams. The storyline of each book employs interesting historical facts designed to give an understanding of the period in line with the National Curriculum; the diary format supports the National Literacy Strategy. To add variety to the mixture there are extras: a recipe, shopping list, sketched map or the sort of ephemera, lists and notes that young people might add to their own private diaries. The black and white illustrations make characters and events come alive and add historical detail. History Diaries build on the success of accessible, humorous history in this format, but takes the genre in a new and appealing direction. ... Read more

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Discusses what life was like in Europe during World War II and describes the devastation resulting from that conflict. ... Read more

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Terribly racist
This is an unsupportable, one-sided view of Japanese-Americans as the enemy of the United States during WWII and even today. I had to read this for a term paper and it is really difficult to get through because it is so unfair and prejudiced against all Japanese-American people. Do not support this racist propaganda.

Thorough! Lots of quotes, photos, & original documents
This powerful book by Lillian Baker is an expansion of her material from "The Concentration Camp Conspiracy: A Second Pearl Harbor" (AFHA Publications) for which she received an award in the scholastic category from the Conference of California Historical Societies for "distinguished contributions to California history." While containing many original documents and photos, the book is also highly readable. Actually, it is hard to put down.
The Foreword is written by Prof. Kiyoaki Murata of Yachiyo International University in Tokyo and author of "An Enemy Among Friends." Murata previously served as Editor-in-Chief and Executive Director of the "Japan Times," the English newspaper with the largest circulation here in Tokyo. Murata supports Baker's work and notes that he himself was in the relocation camps as an "enemy alien" of university age until he decided to leave the camps in 1943 to attend university in Chicago, where he graduated and then returned to Japan after the war.
In the pages of Ms Baker's book you will see the details of the wartime groups, both anti-American and pro-American, and find exactly how their history has been hijacked by small-but-strident groups with an agenda - and the agenda is not concerned with getting the historical facts straight. You will see statements from many Japanese-Americans who resent the falsification of their history by "anti-racist activists" (a nisei who was in the Kootenay Valley camp in Canada calls them "reverse racist activists"). You will be shocked at the distortions, including falsified photos, that have been used to rewrite this history. The book details revisionism extending from the ACLU (whose wartime president supported relocation and denounced the anti-American "Fair Play Committee") to such revisionist docu-drama distortions as "The Color of Honor" and the booklet "They Work for Victory," which looks at a fine military unit (the 442nd Regimental Combat Team) and exaggerates its accomplishments almost beyond belief.
You'll also be surprised to learn how many in the camps were Japanese nationals choosing to reside in the camps while expressing loyalty to Japan, and how many of the others were dual nationals (mostly children of the Japanese nationals) who could not choose because of their age.
The reparations committee was a stacked deck, loaded with types similar to Congressman Norman Mineta, an outspoken proponent of reparations and apology. You'll find that Mineta has constantly lied about his "war-time experiences." You'll also find that Sen. Daniel K. Inouye covered up and withheld from the Presidential Commission, the Congress and the Courts information about MAGIC (see below) that proved the military necessity for E.O.9066 (the Executive Order by President Roosevelt establishing the exclusion zone on the West Coast).
On the other hand, you'll find that Sen. Hayakawa denounced the committee, calling it a "wolf-pack of young Japanese-Americans who weren't even born during WWII." Also, Dr. Ken Masugi, son of alien evacuees, stated that the committee's report "Personal Justice Denied" consists of (1) moral posturing, (2) intellectual dishonesty, and (3) political opportunism. Prof. Murata denounces the committee's report as a "falsification of history."
Naturally, Lillian Baker was a lightening rod for the anger and personal vituperation of the reverse racist activists, who would like nothing more than to suppress her documentation of that period. Unable to counter the evidence she has presented, they revert to the lowest form of attack, casting aspersions on her person and character. Their charges of her "anti-Japanese racism" are belied by the fact that she served as the South Bay chair for the successful campaign of Senator S.I. Hayakawa.
After reading this book, you will also want to have a look at "MAGIC: The untold story of US Intelligence and the evacuation of Japanese residents from the West Coast during WWII," by David D. Lowman, former Special Assistant to the Director of the NSA, and Prof. Murata's book "An Enemy Among Friends."

Nothing but distortions and unsupported assertions
This is yet another diatribe by self-proclaimed 'historian' Lillian Baker, who led what was virtually a one-woman crusade against Americans of Japanese ancestry for years until her recent death. She wrote a few bookson the subject and none of them, including this one, follow the standardsof academic research. She fails to provide sufficient evidence to back upher claims and she willfully distorts what really happened--primarilybecause history has proven that she was wrong in her assertions thatAmericans of Japanese ancestry were all disloyal during World War II andwere threats to national security and deserved to be hauled away and lockedup in American concentration camps. Bitter and hate-filled to the endbecause she mistakenly blamed Americans of Japanese ancestry for the deathof her husband in the Pacific Theatre during WWII (she, like many others,did not differentiate between Japanese nationals and Americans of Japaneseancestry), Baker's legacy is certainly the opposite of what she had hopedfor.Her racism and hate againstJapanese Americans did for more to unify them in their struggle for redress and reparations than it did to hamperthe movement. Therefore, don't waste your time on this 'book.' If you wantto REALLY learn about what happened, there are other fine works on thissubject. ... Read more

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equally important as the atomic bomb
If your university has this monograph hidden away in its library, you might want to check it out. Written by physicists, and directed towards a reader with a strong science background, though not necessarily in physics, it tells a compelling story about the development of a crucial technology. Of course, the general public has been aware since the end of World War 2 about the vital role played by radar in the Battle of Britain, where the British had a decisive advantage in this field.

The book argues persuasively that radar ranked perhaps equally with the atomic bomb as the most important weapons developed by the Allies during the war.

In detail, it explains the British effort and then the sequel, so to speak. When the US entered the war, the British gave them all their radar technology. The MIT Radar lab became the American centre, analogous to Los Alamos for the Manhattan Project. We see how the Americans were able to bring their ingenuity and resources to bear. By shrinking the size and mass of the radar transmitters and detectors. Which let them be placed on ships and planes. And for artillery and ships' guns to be aimed using radar.

When the book came out in 1987, the author was able to interview some of those scientists and engineers, British and American, who took part in the war effort and were still alive.
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