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  • Civilian Bombing and Civil Defence in the Spanish Civil War

    Bombs Along the Mediterranean

    by David A. Messenger ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book explores the impact of the bombing of civilians during the Spanish Civil War. The Civil War has long been recognized as bringing together the political, social and other elements key to understanding the 1930s in Europe and later, the Second World War. It was a conflict involving fascism, communism, anarchism and other movements of the day, and led to a dictatorship that kept Spain ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Neutral Countries as Clandestine Battlegrounds, 1939–1968

    Between Two Fires

    by Denis Smyth, Christopher Andrew, Egemen Bezci, Vasilis Dimitriadis, Alexandra Luce, Paul M. McGarr, David A. Messenger, Eunan O’Halpin, Neville Wylie, Marco Wyss0, André Gerolymatos2, Professor James Horncastle4, Professor Katerina Lagos5 ...
    During the Second World War and the subsequent Cold War, foreign agents conducted intelligence-gathering, sabotage, and subversive operations inside neutral countries aimed at damaging their opponents' interests. The essays contained in this collection analyze the risks of espionage operations on neutral soil as well as the dangers such covert activities posed for the governments of neutral states ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • War and Public Memory

    Case Studies in Twentieth-Century Europe

    by David A. Messenger ...
    Series series War, Memory, and Culture
    An introduction to key issues in the study of war and memory that examines significant conflicts in twentieth-century EuropeIn order to understand the history of twentieth-century Europe, we must first appreciate and accept how different societies and cultures remember their national conflicts. We must also be aware of the ways that those memories evolve over time. In War and Public Memory: Case ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Hunting Nazis in Franco's Spain

    by David A. Messenger ...
    In the waning days and immediate aftermath of World War II, Nazi diplomats and spies based in Spain decided to stay rather than return to a defeated Germany. The decidedly pro-German dictatorship of General Francisco Franco gave them refuge and welcomed other officials and agents from the Third Reich who had escaped and made their way to Iberia. Amid fears of a revival of the Third Reich, Allied ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • A Nazi Past

    Recasting German Identity in Postwar Europe

    Edited by David A. Messenger, Katrin Paehler ...
    Since the end of World War II, historians and psychologists have investigated the factors that motivated Germans to become Nazis before and during the war. While most studies have focused on the high-level figures who were tried at Nuremberg, much less is known about the hundreds of SS members, party functionaries, and intelligence agents who quietly navigated the transition to postwar life and ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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  • Nazi Empire-Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine

    by Wendy Lower ...
    On 16 July 1941, Adolf Hitler convened top Nazi leaders at his headquarters in East Prussia to dictate how they would rule the newly occupied eastern territories. Ukraine, the "jewel" in the Nazi empire, would become a German colony administered by Heinrich Himmler's SS and police, Hermann Goring's economic plunderers, and a host of other satraps. Focusing on the Zhytomyr region and weaving ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War"

    How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World

    by Patrick J. Buchanan ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Were World Wars I and II inevitable? Were they necessary wars? Or were they products of calamitous failures of judgment?In this monumental and provocative history, Patrick Buchanan makes the case that, if not for the blunders of British statesmen—Winston Churchill first among them—the horrors of two world wars and the Holocaust might have been avoided and the British ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Ordinary Men

    Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

    by Christopher R. Browning ...
    “A remarkable—and singularly chilling—glimpse of human behavior. . .This meticulously researched book...represents a major contribution to the literature of the Holocaust."—NewsweekChristopher R. Browning’s shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews—now with a new afterword and additional photographs.Ordinary Men is ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Battle for Spain

    The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939

    by Antony Beevor ...
    The bestselling author of STALINGRAD and BERLIN: THE DOWNFALL on the Spanish Civil War, drawing on masses of newly discovered material from the Spanish, Russian and German archives.The civil war that tore Spain apart between 1936 and 1939 and attracted liberals and socialists from across the world to support the cause against Franco was one of the most hard-fought and bitterest conflicts of the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • The Gestapo

    The Myth and Reality of Hitler's Secret Police

    by Frank McDonough ...
    A new, comprehensive exploration of the Gestapo from a renowned historian of the Third Reich.Drawing on a detailed examination of previously unpublished Gestapo case files this book relates the fascinating, vivid and disturbing accounts of a cross-section of ordinary and extraordinary people who opposed the Nazi regime. It also tells the equally disturbing stories of the involvement of the German ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy

    Ernest Hemingway's Secret Adventures, 1935–1961

    by Nicholas E. Reynolds ...
    **A New York Times–bestseller from an intelligence insider reveals the "fascinating new research" revealing Hemingway's hidden life in espionage ( New York Review of Books).A riveting epic, Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy reveals for the first time Ernest Hemingway's secret adventures in espionage and intelligence.While he was the historian at the CIA Museum, Nicholas Reynolds, former American ... Read more

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  • Hitler 1936-1945

    Nemesis

    by Ian Kershaw ...
    Following the enormous success of HITLER: HUBRIS this book triumphantly completes one of the great modern biographies. No figure in twentieth century history more clearly demands a close biographical understanding than Adolf Hitler; and no period is more important than the Second World War. Beginning with Hitler's startling European successes in the aftermath of the Rhinelland occupation and ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD