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Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
386 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Waged for a just cause and culminating in total victory, World War II was America's "good war." Yet for millions of GIs overseas, the war did not end with Germany's and Japan's surrenders. The Good Occupation chronicles America's transition from wartime combatant to postwar occupier, by exploring the intimate thoughts and feelings of the ordinary servicemen and women who participated--often reluctantly--in the difficult project of rebuilding nations...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In war-torn Asia and stricken Europe, men and women, still young but veterans of harsh experience, must reinvent their lives and expectations, and learn, from their past, to dream again. Some will fulfill their destinies, others will falter. At the center of the story, a brave and brilliant soldier find that survival and worldly achievement are not enough. His counterpart, a young girl living in occupied Japan and tending her dying brother, falls...
6) Judenstaat
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
On April 4, 1948, the sovereign state of Judenstaat was created in the territory of Saxony bordering Germany, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. Forty years later, Jewish historian Judit Klemmer is making a documentary film outlining the direction that Judenstaat has taken as a country on the world stage, from the Nazi atrocities of World War II to their liberation by Soviet troops. She is haunted by memories of her dead husband, who was shot by a sniper...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xii, 608 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces the history of the Marshall Plan and the efforts to reconstruct western Europe as a bulwark against communist authoritarianism during a two-year period that saw the collapse of postwar U.S.-Soviet relations and the beginning of the Cold War.
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
522 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A chronicle of Germany's transformation during a pivotal year describes the devastation from the war's final battles, the death marches and acts of vengeance suffered by ordinary citizens, and the first postwar year's burgeoning social, economic, and political cultures.
Author
Series
Apollo editions volume A31
Pub. Date
[1961]
Physical Desc
xxii, 331 pages : map, plans ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
xxxvii, 438 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
British historian Taylor (The Berlin Wall) surveys the occupation policies of the Allied victors, showing a variegated picture: brutal in the Soviet zone, relatively humane in the American, British, and French sectors, but everywhere a landscape of hunger, cold, and--in German eyes--humiliation. Taylor also examines how the efforts to bring to account millions of ex-Nazi Party members were erratic, corrupt, and ineffective.
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