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Douglas Natelson, the author of Nanostructures and Nanotechnology, takes on the controversy of nanoscience.
Historian Michael Goebel gives a compelling narrative of the spread of a global anti-imperialism from the vantage point of Paris between the two World Wars. Anti-Imperial Metropolis is part of the Global...
Introduction to Part I by Michael Geyer and Adam Tooze The First World War had been won by global economic force. The global superiority of the victorious powers, foremost the USA and Great Britain, was...
Introduction A Soldier’s Story In the evening of June 16 , 1940 , a reconnaissance regiment of the ninth German tank division appeared at the eastern gates of the French city La Charité-sur-Loire....
Introduction For midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, the social highlight of their second year is the Ring Dance. It is an event replete with tradition and symbolism during which...
In the introduction to Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front, Jeff Rutherford examines the German war effort in the campaign against the Soviet Union.
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...
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...
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.
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.
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.
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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