
Operation Chastise: The RAF's Most Brilliant Attack of World War II
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The attack on Nazi Germany’s dams on May 17, 1943, was one of the most remarkable feats in...

The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present
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Why do democracies keep lurching from success to failure? The current financial crisis is just the...
Letters and Photographs from the Battle Country: The World War I Memoir of Margaret Hall
Margaret Hall and Margaret R. Higonnet
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In August 1918 a Massachusetts-born woman named Margaret Hall boarded a transport ship in New York...

Reporting War: How Foreign Correspondents Risked Capture, Torture, and Death to Cover World War II
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Luminary journalists Ed Murrow, Martha Gellhorn, Walter Cronkite, and Clare Hollingworth were among...

The Making of a Paratrooper: Airborne Training and Combat in World War II
Kurt Gabel, William C. Mitchell and Theodore A. Wilson
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The memoir of paratrooper Kurt Gabel-a German Jew who emigrated to the US in 1938, joined the 513th...

Valor, Guts, and Luck: A B-17 Tailgunner's Survival Story During World War II
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During the Second World War, a b-17 tailgunner had a one-in-four chance of survival during his...

The Enemy on Display: The Second World War in Eastern European Museums
Zuzanna Bogumil and Joanna Wawrzyniak
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Eastern European Museums represent traumatic events of World War II, such as the Siege of Leningrad,...
The Coming Storm: Test and First Class Cricketers Killed in World War II
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The outbreak of the Second World War came towards the closing stages of the 1939 cricket season....