World War II
37,412 Followers
Recent papers in World War II
Горан Давидовић, Милош Тимотијевић, Затамњена прошлост : историја равногораца чачанског краја. Књ. 3, Агонија и слом : ратне 1944. и 1945. године (Чачак : Међуопштински историјски архив ; Краљево : Народни музеј, 2004 (Чачак : Графика... more
Kriege und moderne militärische Konflikte bergen das wirkmächtige Potential den Verlauf der Geschichte in einer derart gestauchten chronologischen Abfolge der Geschehnisse zu verändern, die es für Gesellschaften schwer macht, sie in ihrer... more
This paper investigates which events of World War II (WWII) the US investors (at that time) considered as turning points (structural breaks) of the war. The empirical study employs daily Dow Jones industrial average stock index and... more
As historians are becoming more aware of the diversity of the Australian prisoner of war experience during the Second World War, increasing numbers of Indigenous Australians' stories are being identified. Through the combined hard work of... more
This article is published by invitation in a special symposium issue of the John Marshall Law Review entitled “International Law in the 21st Century: The Law and Politics of the International Criminal Court.” The article compares the... more
Book review of: "Sengo Nihon no Fuko no Kiroku, GHQ Kameraman Boria ga Totta Nihon no Fukei" (Records of the Reconstruction of Postwar Japan, Japanese Scenes Taken by The GHQ Cameraman Boria). Photographs by Dimitri Boria, Compiled by... more
"Still, something essentially sympathetic about Lucas persists, and his fate is heavy with pathos. Once he had been selected for a command he never should have held, he had no choice but to carry out his orders as he understood them, even... more
Claude Eatherly, pilota e metereologo, era un ragazzo texano di 27 anni quando ordinò lo sgancio della prima bomba atomica della storia, Little Boy, che colpì Hiroshima il 6 agosto 1945. Nonostante la giovane età, non era certo un... more
The name Mildred Fish-Harnack is commemorated in American academic circles. On the other hand, the German resistance group known as "Rote Kapelle" is hardly known, due to the convictions of its protagonists Harro Schulze-Boysen and Arvid... more
This text attempts to present a general view of the architecture of occupied Warsaw between 1939 and 1944. Based on both existing publications and new primary source material from the collections of the Polish Architecture Department at... more
Traumatic experiences of war often play a dominant role in establishing a group identity, not least in modern nation states (Mosse 1990). As in so many other nations, the Second World War is a central part of the collective memory of... more
This study analyzes controversies and public attitudes concerning the Bandera faction of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-B), the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) and Stepan Bandera in Ukraine. The research question is: Which... more
The purpose of this report is to compile historical information regarding World War II aircraft losses in the Lake Victoria region of New South Wales. Lake Victoria was utilised as a training area for No. 2 Operational Training Unit... more
is is the first study to show how the Royal Navy’s ideas about the meaning and application of seapower shaped its policies in the interwar period. Drawing on a wide range of unpublished sources, the author challenges the accepted view... more
This study examines the role of political factors in attitudes toward World War II in contemporary Ukraine. The question under examination is which factors determine public views of the principal warring sides and their leaders in... more
On August 6, 1945, the world changed when the United States dropped the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city Hiroshima. Three days later a second bomb was dropped on another Japanese city, Nagasaki. The decision to drop the atomic bomb... more
A day-by-day account, full of details and information.
The most unusual part of Byron’s European travels in 1809–10 was probably his visit to Albania, where he roughed it for a bit and then lived and travelled luxuriously as the guest of Ali Pasha. He wrote about his Albanian travels in his... more
«Τα αίτια του Β΄ Παγκοσμίου Πολέμου είχαν σχέση με την αποτυχία των όρων ειρήνης του 1919-1920» (E.M. Burns). Να εντοπίσετε και να σχολιάσετε τις συνέπειες του Α΄ Παγκοσμίου Πολέμου και τους όρους των συνθηκών ειρήνης που συνδέονται με... more
Consumer subsidies have been playing an increasing role in Pakistan since Independence. Largely as left-over economic controls of World War II, a number of sophisticated instruments! have been applied with different objectives at... more
No início da guerra, o calibre das armas antitanque variava de 37 mm a 45 mm e atirava um projétil de aproximadamente um quilo. A princípio, essas armas pareciam adequadas, mas muito rapidamente, com a evolução da proteção blindada nos... more
The Fosse Ardeatine massacre was a mass execution carried out in Rome on March 24, 1944 by Nazi German occupation troops during the Second World War as a reprisal for a partisan attack conducted on the previous day in central Rome. The... more
This study examines the initial social construction of Holocaust commemoration in the Yishuv (the pre-state Jewish community of Palestine). It presents and analyzes proposals that were put forward in Palestine and abroad to commemorate... more
We use the analogy of ecological succession as our conceptual framework. We apply this analogy to the history of foreign banks in Bulgaria and argue that the current predominance of foreign banks is unlikely to be permanent, even without... more
The story of the children of Pahiatua (Pahiatua Children), where was a temporary camp for Polish orphans after soldiers, including members those form the Anders’ Army, is well known in New Zealand. Polish citizens, mainly from the Eastern... more
This article uses the findings of a detailed and unpublished survey, carried out in York in 1947 and 1948, to examine the support networks, social lives and economic conditions of older people in a period when considerable sociological... more
In the aftermath of World War II, the world's economies exhibited very different rates of economic recovery. We provide evidence that those countries that caught up the most with the U.S. in the postwar period are those that also saw an... more
Презентация к докладу прочитанному к 90-летю Русской Зарубежной Церкви в Архиерейском Синоде РПЦЗ в Нью-Йорке. Дек. 2010 г. Текст диакона Андрея Псарев, художественное оформление Д.В. Тихомирова. См. на текст доклада на этом же сайте.
Allied victories in North Africa during 1942 and 1943, created a dilemma for British and American signals intelligence (SIGINT) collectors. As German and Italian forces withdrew from the African continent, the Allies lost the ability to... more
On August 15, 1945, President Harry S. Truman announced on television that Japan had surrendered. This decision was prompted by the catastrophic events of August 6 and 9, 1945, in which the United States of America dropped atomic bombs on... more
Chemical warfare agents (CWAs) have been disposed of in various fashions over the past decades. Significant amounts (∼11,000 tonnes) have been dumped in the Baltic Sea east of the island Bornholm following the disarmament of Germany after... more
We would like to thank Sue Dynarski and participants at the NBER Higher Education Seminar for comments. We are grateful to Michelle Reininger and Michelle Bales for research assistance. Two anonymous referees have provided thoughtful... more