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  • Germany’s Western Front: 1915

    Translations from the German Official History of the Great War

    Edited by John Maker, Mark Osborne Humphries ...
    The first English-language translation of Der Weltkrieg, the German official history of the First World War.Originally produced between 1925 and 1944 using classified archival records that were destroyed in the aftermath of the Second World War, Der Weltkrieg is the untold story of Germany’s experience on the Western front, in the words of its official historians, making it vital to the study of ... Read more

    $40.39 USD

  • Germany’s Western Front: 1914

    Translations from the German Official History of the Great War, Part 1

    Edited by John Maker, Mark Osborne Humphries ...
    The first English-language translation of Der Weltkrieg, the German official history of the First World War.Originally produced between 1925 and 1944 using classified archival records that were destroyed in the aftermath of the Second World War, Der Weltkrieg is the inside story of Germany’s experience on the Western front. Recorded in the words of its official historians, this account is vital to ... Read more

    $41.09 USD

  • The YMCA at War

    Collaboration and Conflict during the World Wars

    by Jeffrey C. Copeland, Yan Xu, Joel R. Bius, Ugo Pavan Dalla Torre, Larry A. Grant, John J. Maker, John Moremon, Kristin Mulready-Stone, Erika Cornelius Smith0, Kenneth A. Steuer1, Edward C. Woodfin2 ...
    The Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) is best known for its athletic and youth programs, a heritage that draws on its origins in 1844 to provide wholesome recreation to urban youth away from the moral decay of industrialized urban living. Before long, that uplift mission found a place in the American Civil War, and soon the Y had spread all over the world by the early twentieth century, and ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

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  • The Way of the Samurai

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  • June 6, 1944

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  • The Second World Wars

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