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Hitler's Gateway to the Atlantic
Employing new research from both German and French sources, the author examines the role that the French Atlantic ports played for the Kriegsmarine during the Second World War. When the Wehrmacht overran France in May and June of 1940, the German navy's
Imprisoning the Enemy
Offers a vivid examination of Axis prisoners of war during World War II, detailing their experiences, circumstances, and the complexities of their captivity in various theatres from 1940 to 1945. Prisoners of war (POWs) are an important part in the history of the Second World War. Nikolaos Theotokis, in this vividly written book, examines the subject, taking a closer look at the hundreds of thousands of Axis military personnel, including women (mostly German), who were held in POW camps, POW cages, prisons or forced labor camps, after being captured by or surrendering to Allied forces, between 1940 and 1945, in the North African, European and Pacific theaters of operations. Hundreds of cases...
U-Boat Commander Oskar Kusch
To his enlisted men on U-154, Lieutenant Oskar Kusch was the ideal skipper--bright, experienced, successful, caring, tolerably eccentric--and a popular captain who always brought his boat home safely when so many others vanished without a trace. To most of his officers Kusch came across as someone very different--a Nazi-hating intellectual with an artistic bent given to lengthy criticisms of the regime, its leaders and its propaganda, a suspected coward and potential traitor unfit for command. Early in 1944, after his second patrol under Kusch, his executive officer, a reservist with a doctorate in law and member of the Nazi party, denounced him on charges of sedition and cowardice. A hastil...
Dimensionen der Mittäterschaft
Dass zum europäischen Faschismus und Nationalsozialismus, der wohl am meisten durchforschten Epoche der Weltgeschichte, fast 75 Jahre nach dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs bislang noch keine Gesamtdarstellung der europäischen Kollaboration mit dem Dritten Reich vorlag, kann mit Fug und Recht als großes, vielleicht sogar größtes Desiderat zu diesem historischen Problemkomplex angesehen werden. Klaus Kellmann hat sich der sensiblen Aufgabe gestellt, und er beschränkt sich nicht auf die Einzelanalysen aller 24 Staaten, die bis 1944/45 der deutschen Terrorherrschaft unterworfen waren. Im Schlusskapitel "Europäisches Gedächtnis und europäische Identität" bringt er seine Forschungsergebnisse in die Gestaltung des Europa von Morgen ein: Ohne schonungslose Aufarbeitung und Vergewisserung der Kollaboration mit dem Dritten Reich wird es kein gemeinsames europäisches Narrativ und keine gemeinsame europäische Erinnerungskultur geben – jenes große Projekt, mit dem die Geschichtswissenschaft auf dem Alten Kontinent in den nächsten Jahren und Jahrzehnten zentral und entscheidend befasst sein wird.
We March Against England
We March Against England tells the thrilling tale of Operation Sea Lion, Hitler's plan to invade Britain and end its involvement in World War II. In May 1940 Nazi Germany was master of continental Europe, the only European power still standing was Great Britain – and the all-conquering German armed forces stood poised to cross the Channel. Following the destruction of the RAF fighter forces, the sweeping of the Channel of mines, and the wearing down of the Royal Naval defenders, two German army groups were set to storm the beaches of southern England. Despite near-constant British fears from August to October, the invasion never took place after first being postponed to spring 1941 before finally being abandoned entirely. Robert Forcyzk, author of Where the Iron Crosses Grow, looks beyond the traditional British account of Operation Sea Lion, complete with plucky Home Guards and courageous Spitfire pilots, at the real scale of German ambition, plans and capabilities. He examines, in depth, how Operation Sea Lion fitted in with German air-sea actions around the British Isles as he shows exactly what stopped Hitler from invading Britain.
Maritime Strategy and Sea Denial
This book focuses on the theory and practice of maritime strategy and operations by the weaker powers at sea. Illustrated by examples from naval and military history, the book explains and analyzes the strategies of the weaker side at sea in both peacetime and wartime; in defense versus offense; the main prerequisites for disputing control of the sea; and the conceptual framework of disputing control of the sea. It also explains and analyzes in some detail the main methods of disputing sea control – avoiding/seeking decisive encounters, weakening enemy naval forces over time, counter-containment of enemy naval forces, destroying the enemy’s military-economic potential at sea, attacks on ...
Hitler
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE 2020 A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 A revelatory new biography of Adolf Hitler from the acclaimed historian Brendan Simms Adolf Hitler is one of the most studied men in history, and yet the most important things we think we know about him are wrong. As Brendan Simms's major new biography shows, Hitler's main preoccupation was not, as widely believed, the threat of Bolshevism, but that of international capitalism and Anglo-America. These two fears drove both his anti-semitism and his determination to secure the 'living space' necessary to survive in a world dominated by the British Empire and the United States. Drawing on new sources, Bre...
Building Nazi Germany
This richly illustrated book details the wide-ranging construction and urban planning projects launched across Germany after the Nazi Party seized power. Hagen and Ostergren show that it was far more than just an architectural and stylistic enterprise. Instead, it was a series of interrelated programs intended to thoroughly reorganize Germany’s economic, cultural, and political landscapes. The authors trace the specific roles of its component parts—the monumental redevelopment and cleansing of cities; the construction of new civic landscapes for educational, athletic, and leisure pursuits; the improvement of transportation, industrial, and military infrastructures; and the creation of networked landscapes of fear, slave labor, and genocide. Through distinctive examples, the book draws out the ways in which combinations of place, space, and architecture were utilized as a cumulative means of undergirding the regime and its ambitions. The authors consider how these reshaped spaces were actually experienced and perceived by ordinary Germans, and in some cases the world at large, as the regime intentionally built a new Nazi Germany.
The Development of the Hotel and Tourism Industry in the Twentieth Century
This edited collection explores the pivotal role of the hotel industry in building Western Europe’s tourism economy during the 20th century. The book brings together ten contributions focused on the same period, 1900-1970, to offer comparative perspectives from across the region including Italy, Switzerland, France, Spain and Britain. Drawing on historical case studies, chapters illuminate the different factors linking hotels and the broader tourism system including interventions of the public authorities and the State, the importance of private involvement, commercial strategies, the medium-term development of private hotels, hotel entrepreneurship, and the impact of economic crises and wars. By placing differing national approaches taken to the growth of the hotel industry in comparison, the book aims to fill a gap in the historiography of European hospitality and shed light on the wider impact of hotels and tourism on economic development at both a national and regional level. It will be of interest to a range of scholars, including in economic and business history, tourism studies, the history of tourism management, and social history.
Le Glorieux et le Maudit
Après la mort de Radiguet, Jean Cocteau rencontre un jeune provincial surdoué dont les textes et la personnalité le séduisent. Ils vont vivre sept ans ensemble. Lorsque Jean Desbordes le quitte, Cocteau écrira La Voix humaine, déchirante transposition de leur rupture. De son côté, Desbordes poursuit sa carrière de romancier et dramaturge, avant de se détacher du monde culturel et mondain. Il se marie. La guerre éclate. Il s’engage dans la Résistance et deviendra un héros. Arrêté par la Gestapo, il refuse de donner ses compagnons et meurt sous la torture. Un livre militant, sur une figure injustement oubliée de l’histoire littéraire, de l’Histoire tout court. Et un nouveau regard sur Cocteau. Olivier Charneux a publié au Seuil : L’Enfant de la pluie, Être un homme. Chez Stock : Les Dernières Volontés, La Grande Vie, Nous vivons des vies héroïques. Chez Robert Laffont : Les guérir. Chez Grasset : Tant que je serai en vie. Chez Séguier : Le Prix de la joie.
