World War II Books

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1. War, Peace and International Relations: An Introduction to Strategic History, 2nd Edition

   By Colin S. Gray

   This new edition of Colin Gray's textbook explores the theory and practice of war and peace in modern historical context. War, Peace and International Relations serves as an excellent introduction to the international history of the past two hundred years, showing how those ...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-59487-5 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. Geopolitics and Strategic History 1871-2050

   By Geoffrey Sloan

   A new explanation of the course of international politics from the rebirth of the German Empire to the rise of China. This volume contributes to empirically based geopolitical theory and uses that theory to improve our understanding of the major events in the international strategic...

   June 2011 | 978-0-7146-5348-8 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. Post-War Repatriation to Defeated Japan

   By Beatrice Trefalt

   The repatriation of more than six million Japanese from overseas territories in the period between 1945 and the mid-1950shaad a major impact on Japanese culture and politics. The book explores the tensions of identity that emerged during the years of re-integration and shows how tightly post-war...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-55248-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, 1941-45: A Documentary Reader

   By Alexander Hill

   This book consists of extracts from key documents, along with commentary and further reading, on the ‘Great Patriotic War’ of the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany, 1941-45. Despite the historical significance of the war, few Soviet documents have been published in English. This work provides...

   August 2010 | 978-0-415-60424-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

5. Crimes of State Past and Present: Government-Sponsored Atrocities and International Legal Responses

   Edited by David Crowe

   War Crimes and acts of genocide are as old as history itself, but particularly during the 20th century. Yet what are war crimes and acts of genocide? And why did it take the world so long to define these crimes and develop legal institutions to bring to justice individuals and nations responsible...

   July 2010 | 978-0-415-57788-5 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   The Guy Liddell Diaries, Volume I: 1939-1942: MI5's Director of Counter-Espionage in World War II

   By Nigel West

   This is the first volume of Nigel West's acclaimed presentation of these fascinating diaries from the heart of Britain's Second World War intelligence operations. 'No intelligence buff can be without this volume and anyone interested in British twentieth century history needs it too...

   September 2009 | 978-0-415-54798-7 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   The Guy Liddell Diaries Vol.II: 1942-1945: MI5's Director of Counter-Espionage in World War II

   Edited by Nigel West

   WALLFLOWERS is the codename given to one of the Security Service’s most treasured possessions, the daily journal dictated from August 1939 to June 1945 by MI5’s Director of Counter-Espionage, Guy Liddell, to his secretary, Margo Huggins. The document was considered so highly classified that it was...

   September 2009 | 978-0-415-55011-6 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Churchill's Man of Mystery: Desmond Morton and the World of Intelligence

   By Gill Bennett

   The mysterious life and career of Desmond Morton, Intelligence officer and personal adviser to Winston Churchill during the Second World War, is exposed for the first time in this study based on full access to official records. After distinguished service as artillery officer and aide-de-camp to...

   April 2009 | 978-0-415-48168-7 | Paperback (Routledge)

9. Disability and/in Prose

   Edited by Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Marian E. Lupo

   Through a series of critical essays this book concerns itself with the relationships and possibilities in and between "prose" and "disability". The critical and/or personal essays in this book all try to explore this potent inbetween space – a place full of possibilities. These prose pieces reflect...

   February 2009 | 978-0-415-49152-5 | Paperback (Routledge)

10. War Crimes Tribunals and Transitional Justice: The Tokyo Trial and the Nuremburg Legacy

    By Madoka Futamura

    Advocates of the ‘Nuremberg legacy’ emphasize the positive impact of the individualization of responsibility and the establishment of an historical record through judicial procedures for ‘war crimes’. This legacy has been cited in the context of the establishment and operation of the UN ad hoc...

    2008 | 978-0-415-49514-1 | Paperback (Routledge)