The Second World War in U.S. History and Memory

The Constructed Mennonite: History, Memory, and the Second World War

✍ Werner, Hans 📂 Fiction 📅 2013 🏛 University of Manitoba Press 🌐 English ⚖ 4 MB

John Werner was a storyteller. A Mennonite immigrant in southern Manitoba, he captivated his audiences with tales of adventure and perseverance. With every telling he constructed and reconstructed the memories of his life.John Werner was a survivor. Born in the Soviet Union just after the Bolshevik

The Constructed Mennonite - History, Memory, and the Second World War

✍ Werner, Hans 📂 Fiction 📅 2013 🏛 Univ. of Manitoba Press 🌐 English ⚖ 3 MB

John Werner was a storyteller. A Mennonite immigrant in southern Manitoba, he captivated his audiences with tales of adventure and perseverance. With every telling he constructed and reconstructed the memories of his life. John Werner was a survivor. Born in the Soviet Union just after the Bolshevi

The Second World War: A Military History

✍ Corrigan, Gordon 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🏛 Atlantic Books 🌐 English ⚖ 2 MB

In this major new history, Gordon Corrigan argues that what we call the Second World War was in fact two separate conflicts: one against Germany (and, for a while, Italy) in Western Europe, Soviet Russia and North Africa; the other against Japan in the Far East and Pacific. Each conflict had dis

The Second World War-A Military History

✍ Corrigan, Gordon 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🏛 Atlantic Books Ltd 🌐 en-US ⚖ 2 MB

In this major new history, Gordon Corrigan argues that what we call the Second World War was in fact two separate conflicts: one against Germany (and, for a while, Italy) in Western Europe, Soviet Russia and North Africa; the other against Japan in the Far East and Pacific. Each conflict had distinc

Myths and Legends of the Second World War

✍ Hayward, James 📂 Fiction 📅 2013 🏛 The History Press 🌐 English ⚖ 146 KB

The Second World War gave rise to a rich crop of legends, many of which persist in the public consciousness today. Some are well known, such as the escape of an undead Hitler to South America, Allied aircraft buzzed by 'Foo Fighters' and UFOs, German parachutists dressed as nuns, and a failed German

Freedom Betrayed: Herbert Hoover's Secret History of the Second World War and Its Aftermath

✍ Herbert Hoover; edited and with an Introduction by George H. Nash 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 Hoover Institution Press 🌐 en-US ⚖ 9 MB

The culmination of an extraordinary literary project that Herbert Hoover launched during World War II, his “magnum opus”—at last published nearly fifty years after its completion—offers a revisionist reexamination of the war and its cold war aftermath and a sweeping indictment of the “lost statesman