Focusing on the crucial Tunisian campaign of 1942-1943, this account highlights the Allied blockade of Axis forces using limited air and naval resources. It showcases significant air battles that paved the way for future operations in Europe, marking the first major U.S. victory against the Axis. The book offers a comprehensive analysis of the campaign, often overlooked by historians, and reassesses the impact of Allied airpower and Italy's role, filling a vital gap in World War II history.
Focusing on the Allied campaign for Europe's liberation, this history provides a comprehensive overview from the Normandy invasion to Germany's surrender. It emphasizes a collaborative inter-Allied effort, integrating strategies and tactics across land, sea, and air forces, while highlighting logistical challenges. The narrative also delves into German morale and includes the often-overlooked contributions of Canadian forces, offering a balanced perspective that goes beyond the typical single-army or battle-focused accounts.
A collection of prisoner of war and concentration camp survivor stories from some of the toughest World War II camps in Europe and the Pacific, this book details the daring escapes and highlights the fundamental aspects of human nature that made such heroic efforts possible. Levine takes a comprehensive approach, including evasion efforts by those fleeing before the enemy who never reached formal prisoner of war camps, as well as escapes from ghettoes and labor camps.Levine pays particular attention to dramatic escapes by small boat. Many are not widely known, although some were made over vast distances or in fantastically difficult conditions from enemy-occupied areas. Accounts include attempts at freedom from both German and Japanese prisoner of war camps, stories that reveal much about the conditions prisoners endured. Some of these escapes are far more amazing than the famed Great Escape from Stalag Luft III. German and Austrian prisoners also recount their amazing flights from India to Tibet and Burma. This study challenges some ideas about behavior in extreme situations and casts interesting light on human nature.
Focusing on the Korean War, this study examines its significance as a pivotal event in the Cold War era, highlighting its status as the only major power conflict following World War II. The author presents compelling evidence to argue that the Korean War played a more critical role in shaping global dynamics than the Vietnam War, shedding light on its often-overlooked impact on international relations during a tense historical period.
This book is the only full-scale account of the strategic air offensive against Germany published in the last 20 years, and is also the only one that treats the British and the Americans with parity. Much of what Levine writes about British operations will be unfamiliar to American readers. Levine gets past a simple account of "what we did to them" and describes the target systems and German countermeasures in detail, providing exact yet dramatic accounts of the great bomber operations--the Ruhr dams, Ploesti, Regensburg, and Schweinfurt. The book is broad-gauged, touching many matters--from the development of bombing doctrine before the war to the technical development of the Luftwaffe and the RAF.
- Examines a critical but often overlooked aspect of the campaign for North Africa - Reevaluates the development of Allied airpower This is an exciting account of a little known, yet vital part of World War II: the Allied effort to blockade Axis forces in North Africa with a relatively small number of planes and submarines. Erwin Rommel's desert campaign relied on sea and air supply lines across the Mediterranean, and the Afrika Korps would be crippled if its flow of fuel, parts, and tanks was cut off. Ultimately successful, the Allies' attempts to sever Rommel's supply lines produced some of the war's fiercest air battles and one of only two successful submarine campaigns ever fought.
Focusing on race relations in the Western world, this book critically examines the persistent issues of racism and ethnic chauvinism throughout history. The author highlights the dangers of "colorthink," an unhealthy fixation on race, and its detrimental effects on contemporary race relations. By rejecting comforting narratives for both racists and those who overly criticize Western history, the book offers a challenging perspective on the complexities of racial dynamics today.
This collection of original essays by the nation's leading political theorists examines the origins of modernity, and considers the question of tolerance as a product of early modern religious skepticism. Rather than approaching the problem with a purely historical lens, the authors actively demonstrate the significance of these issues to contemporary debates in political philosophy and public policy. The contributors to Early Modern Skepticism raise and address questions of the utmost significance: Is religious faith necessary for ethical behavior? Is skepticism a fruitful ground from which to argue for toleration? This book will be of interest to historians, philosophers, religious scholars, and political theorists -- anyone concerned about the tensions between private beliefs and public behavior.
