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Disobeying Hitler
'A chilling look at Nazi Germany in collapse' Globe and Mail 'Excellent' Evening Standard | 'Fascinating' Ben Macintyre Raze Paris to the ground. Burn the bridges. Destroy all industry. These were just a few of the insane orders issued by Hitler in the closing months of the Second World War, as the Allies made their unstoppable advance on Germany. Had it not been for the determination and bravery of a few Germans – officers and ordinary civilians – who disobeyed Hiter, Europe might have been a scorched ruin. Many paid with their lives. Might Rommel have opened the Western Front to the Allies on 20 July 1944 had he not been shot at a few days earlier? Did Albert Speer single-handedly prevent the destruction of bridges, factories and towns? Did a Prussian general save Paris? In this compelling book, distinguished historian Randall Hansen explores the extraordinary phenomenon of disobedience-as-resistance and its effect on both the war and its aftermath. A gripping account of German resistance to Hitler’s tyranny in the last year of World War Two, in its 80th anniversary year.
Unmaking the West
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Royal Heirs
Illuminates the role played by the heirs to the throne in the survival of monarchy in nineteenth-century Europe.
Northern European Overture to War, 1939-1941
While the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 was a pivotal moment in European history and precipitated the outbreak of the Second World War western historiography has largely neglected Northern Europe. Two questions dominated the course of events, the Anglo-German contest for control of the access to the Atlantic Ocean and the Soviet-German contest for control of their former territories as a precursor to the future Total War they expected to wage against each other. This anthology of 23 essays considers both these issues collectively and provides a new international perspective on the region’s transition from the relative peace of the interwar era to the all out war following the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. Contributors are Azar Gat, Michael Epkenhans, Andrew Lambert, Tom Kristiansen, Rolf Hobson, Gunnar Åselius, Jörg Hillmann, Werner Rahn, Sławomir Dębski, Ole Kristian Grimnes, Česlovas Laurinavičius, Alfred Erich Senn, Lars Ericson Wolke, Karl Erik Haug, Boris Vadimovich Sokolov, Toomas Hiio, Magnus Ilmjärv, Palle Roslyng-Jensen ,Hans Christian Bjerg, Valters Ščerbinskis, Michael H. Clemmesen, and Marcus Faulkner.
Hitler's War in the East, 1941-1945
Provides a guide to the extensive literature on the war in the East, including largely unknown Soviet writing on the subject. Sections on policy and strategy, the military campaign, the ideologically motivated war of annihilation in the East, the occupation, and coming to terms with the results of the war offer a wealth of bibliographic citations, and include introductions detailing history of the period and related issues. For military historians, and for scholars who approach this period in history from a socio-economic or cultural perspective. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Geschichtsbilder
Aus dem Vorwort: Wer mit Michael Salewski arbeitete, erlebte ein seltenes Verstandnis fur das Exzentrische und die Bereitschaft, in der Universitat den Freiraum zu verteidigen, der notig ist, damit das Unkonventionelle und nicht Stromlinienformige wachsen kann. Schuler, Freunde und Kollegen der verschiedensten Couleur haben diese Liberalitat erlebt und wollen sie mit dieser Festschrift ehren. Mit Beitragen von Hans Eberhard Mayer, Robert Bohn, Helmut Grieser, Wolf D. Gruner, Erich Hoffmann, Klaus Hildebrand, Klaus Schwabe, Josef Schroder, Heiner Timmermann, Carl August Luckerath, Thomas Riis, Gerhard Fouquet, Olaf Morke, Josef Wiesehofer, Thomas Stamm-Kuhlmann, Lars U. Scholl, Jens Hohensee, Frank-Lothar Kroll, Heinrich Walle, Ernst Opgenoorth, Sonke Neitzel, William F. Sheldon, Julius H. Schoeps, Birgit Aschmann, Hans Hattenhauer, Bernd Sosemann, Imanuel Geiss, Peter Kruger, Bernd Kasten, Guntram Schulze-Wegener, Michael Epkenhans, Otmar Franz, Joachim H. Knoll, Bea Lundt, Heinrich Dormeier, Jurgen Elvert, Christian Ostersehlte, Gotz Bergander, Thomas E. Fischer, Rudolf Jaworski, Ilona Stolken-Fitschen. (Franz Steiner 2003)
The Liberation of Paris
Prize-winning and bestselling historian Jean Edward Smith tells the “rousing” (Jay Winik, author of 1944) story of the liberation of Paris during World War II—a triumph achieved only through the remarkable efforts of Americans, French, and Germans, racing to save the city from destruction. Following their breakout from Normandy in late June 1944, the Allies swept across northern France in pursuit of the German army. The Allies intended to bypass Paris and cross the Rhine into Germany, ending the war before winter set in. But as they advanced, local forces in Paris began their own liberation, defying the occupying German troops. Charles de Gaulle, the leading figure of the Free French g...
Hitler's Home Front
This is a groundbreaking new study of an overlooked area of Second World War History.
The War for England's Shores
The War for England's Shores examines the Kriegsmarine's S-Boat offensive along the English Channel and the North Sea from 1940 to 1945, together with British and, later, Allied responses to nullify that threat. Very fast, and armed with torpedoes and mines, S-Boats posed a serious threat to the convoys that were forced to run close along the British coast on a daily basis. Despite the significance of this campaign and the real threat to the whole British war economy, it has been, until now, strangely overlooked by historians. Indeed, the book highlights issues around the maritime identity of those states and navies that see themselves in oceanic terms, at the expense of engagement with, and...
A World at Total War
This volume presents the results of a conference on the history of total war.
