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Hiroshima (Nagasaki) and the politics of commemoration In 1962 a young Jewish American psychiatrist by the name of Robert Lifton visited the Hiroshima Peace Museum. Lifton described his visit to the museum in a letter to his friend David Riesman as follows: “I had seen many such pictures before … but somehow seeing these pictures in Hiroshima was entirely different […]
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Introduction The battle of Moscow involved 2.5 million men on both sides of the eastern front, making it one of the largest and, without question, one of the most important battles of the Second World War. According to Andrew Roberts, Hitler’s offensive towards the Soviet capital was nothing less than decisive: ‘It is no exaggeration to state that the […]
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James C. Kaufman, co-editor of The Psychology of Creative Writing, takes us behind the scenes of his writing process, and explains how creativity takes centre stage in his work.
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If you enjoyed Diana Lary's post last Wednesday, read on for a longer excerpt from her book China's Civil War about how WWII shaped Chinese society.
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Timothy Parsons, an editor of Africa and World War II, discusses the legacy of the sub-Saharan Africans whose role in the Second World War is rarely acknowledged. View a clip from a forthcoming documentary about Kenyan veterans of World War II and download an excerpt from Judith Byfield's preface at the end of the post.
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In this excerpt from Eric T. Jennings' Free French Africa in World War II, rediscover the story of French Equatorial Africa and Cameroon's roles in the Second World War.
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Musical instrument conservation is perhaps the most complex field of art conservation because it not only involves the specialized techniques of wood, metal, textiles, paper, leather, and painting conservation, but also deals with a diverse array of instrument types, including brass and woodwinds, bowed and plucked stringed instruments, stringed keyboard instruments, organs, percussion instruments, automatic […]
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We live today in a world that grew out of World War II. When I worked for fourteen years on a history of that war, a question that often puzzled me was that of the aims of the leaders of the major participants. What sort of world were they aiming for? One of the issues […]
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