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The Allies Strike Back, 1941-1943 by James Holland
Category: Military | Series: The\War in the West Ser.
By June 1941, Germany's war machine looked to be unstoppable. The Nazi blitzkrieg had taken Poland, France, and Holland with shocking speed. The Luftwaffe had bombed London, while German U-boats wrought havoc on Allied shipping on the Atlantic. And yet, as James Holland shows at the start of The Allies ...Show more
The Humanitarians: Child War Refugees and Australian Humanitarianism in a Transnational World, 1919-1975 by Joy Damousi
Category: History | Series: Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare Ser.
Spanning six decades from the formation of the Save the Children Fund in 1919 to humanitarian interventions during the Vietnam War, The Humanitarians maps the national and international humanitarian efforts undertaken by Australians on behalf of child refugees. In this longitudinal study, Joy Damousi ex ...Show more
The War in the West - The Rise of Germany, 1939-1941 by James Holland
Category: Military | Series: The\War in the West Ser.
The Second World War is one of the most significant conflicts in history, but for seven decades our understanding of the war has remained mostly fixed, framed by the accounts of participants and an early generation of historians. James Holland, one of the leading young historians of World War II, has sp ...Show more
Wellington in the Great War by Christopher W. A. Owen
Category: Military | Series: Your Towns and Cities in the Great War Ser.
How the experience of war impacted on the town, from the initial enthusiasm for sorting out the German Kaiser in time for Christmas 1914, to the gradual realization of the enormity of human sacrifice the families of Wellington were committed to as the war stretched out over the next four years. A record ...Show more