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A collection of prisoner of war and concentration camp survivor stories from some of the toughest World War II camps in Europe and the Pacific, this book details the daring escapes and highlights the fundamental aspects of human nature that made such heroic efforts possible.

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This work provides a detailed history of the Western armies in the liberation of Europe. From the D-Day landings to the German surrender, it aims to explain why events panned out the way they did.

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He gives no comfort to either racists or more fashionable contemporaries obsessed with the supposedly unique evils of the Western past.

Racial issues, and misconceptions about race and race relations, are among the most divisive and confusing features of contemporary society.

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Here is a history of the development of military missiles and space travel from World War II to the American visits to the Moon in 1969-1972. It stresses the relationship between the early stages of space exploration and the arms race, and that a dual path led to space flight.

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Nineteen ninety-five is a year of celebration and remembrance of the Axis collapse that signaled the end of the Second World War. Particularly important, then, is this new historical study o the Pacific phase of World War War II that coers not just the military, but also the political side of the war.

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Traces the development of the Soviet Union and the Communist movement from 1917 to the Nazi invasion of the USSR in June 1941. The author argues that the Cold War had its origins in the development of a totalitarian Communist regime in the former Russian Empire under the impact of World War I.

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This text offers a full-scale account of the strategic air offensive against Germany from 1940 to 1945, treating the British and the Americans with parity. Levine stresses the impact of bombing on the war, and generally endorses the strategic air campaign as worthwhile and effective.

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This book puts American policy in Southeast Asia and the traumatic events of the second Indochina War into the larger perspective of the Cold War.

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An account of a part of World War II, the Allied effort to blockade Axis forces in North Africa with a relatively small number of planes and submarines included some of the war's most spectacular air battles and opened the way to the attack on Fortress Europe from the South.