World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension

World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension

Edited by G. Kurt Piehler, Florida State University

As our longstanding World War II series continues to grow, we are interested in scholarship that not only explores the political, military, diplomatic and economic dimensions of the war but also works that analyze social, intellectual and cultural elements and impact. A central focus for us will be on publishing monographs that delve into the human dimension—from the perspective of not only the combatants but also civilians from all regions and nations impacted by the war.

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Forgotten Casualties

Forgotten Casualties

Kevin T Hall

Kevin T Hall

Sheds new light on the mistreatment of downed airmen during World War II and the overall relationship between the air war and state-sponsored violence.Throughout the vast expanse of the Pacific, the...

ISBN: 9781531502867

Shadows of Nagasaki

Shadows of Nagasaki

Chad R. Diehl, Brian Burke-Gaffney, Anna Gasha, Anthony Richard Haynes, Michele M. Mason, Gwyn McClelland, Maika Nakao, Tokusaburō Nagai, Haeseong Park, Franklin Rausch, Nanase Shirokawa, Shinji Takahashi, Anri Yasuda

Edited by Chad R. Diehl

Contributor(s): Brian Burke-Gaffney, Anna Gasha, Anthony Richard Haynes, Michele M. Mason, Gwyn McClelland, Maika Nakao, Tokusaburō Nagai, Haeseong Park, Franklin Rausch, Nanase Shirokawa, Shinji Takahashi and Anri Yasuda

A critical introduction to how the Nagasaki atomic bombing has been remembered, especially in contrast to that of Hiroshima.In the decades following the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945,...

ISBN: 9781531504960

Reporting World War II

Reporting World War II

G. Kurt Piehler, Ingo Trauschweizer, Steven Casey, Kendall Cosley, Douglass Daniel, Alan Delozier, Carolyn Edy, Karen Garner, Larry Greene, Alexander Lovelace, Nathaniel L. Moir, Henry Oinas-Kukkonen, G. Kurt Piehler, James Austin Sandy, Victoria Sotvedt, Ingo Trauschweizer

Edited by G. Kurt Piehler and Ingo Trauschweizer

Contributor(s): Steven Casey, Kendall Cosley, Douglass Daniel, Alan Delozier, Carolyn Edy, Karen Garner, Larry Greene, Alexander Lovelace, Nathaniel L. Moir, Henry Oinas-Kukkonen, G. Kurt Piehler, James Austin Sandy, Victoria Sotvedt and Ingo Trauschweizer

This set of essays offers new insights into the journalistic process and the pressures American front-line reporters experienced covering World War II. Transmitting stories through cable or couriers...

ISBN: 9781531503109

Breaking Point

Rebecca Schwartz Greene, Noah Tsika

Rebecca Schwartz Greene

This book informs the public for the first time about the impact of American psychiatry on soldiers during World War II.Breaking Point is the first in-depth history of American psychiatry in World War...

ISBN: 9781531500269

Against Redemption

Against Redemption

Franco Baldasso

Franco Baldasso

Discloses the richness of ideas and sheds light on the controversy that characterized the transition from fascism to democracy, examining authors, works and memories that were subsequently silenced...

ISBN: 9781531502393

NBC Goes to War

NBC Goes to War

James Cassidy, Michael Sweeney

James Cassidy

Edited by Michael Sweeney

The diary of radio correspondent James Cassidy presents a unique view of World War II as this reporter followed the Allied armies into Nazi Germany.James Joseph Cassidy was one of 362 American journalists...

ISBN: 9780823299324

Uniquely Okinawan

Uniquely Okinawan

Courtney A. Short

Courtney A. Short

Looks at how American soldiers, sailors, and Marines considered race, ethnicity, and identity in the planning and execution of the wartime occupation of Okinawa, during and immediately after the Battle of Okinawa, 1945-1946.

ISBN: 9780823287727

Allied Encounters

Allied Encounters

Marisa Escolar

Marisa Escolar

Analyzes Anglo-American and Italian literary, cinematic and military representations of World War II Italy in order to trace, critique and move beyond the gendered paradigm of redemption that has conditioned understandings of the Allied-Italian encounter.

ISBN: 9780823284498

Hungary in World War II

Hungary in World War II

Deborah S. Cornelius

Deborah S. Cornelius

The story of Hungary's participation in World War II is part of a much larger narrative—one that has never before been fully recounted for a non-Hungarian readership. As told by Deborah Cornelius,...

ISBN: 9780823233441

War Pictures

Kent Puckett

Kent Puckett

In this original and engaging work, author Kent Puckett looks at how British filmmakers imagined, saw, and sought to represent its war during wartime through film. The Second World War posed unique...

ISBN: 9780823276509

Red Tail Captured, Red Tail Free

Red Tail Captured, Red Tail Free

Alexander Jefferson, Lewis H. Carlson

Alexander Jefferson

With Lewis H. Carlson

Red Tail Captured, Red Tail Free is a rare gift detailing the experience of Lt. Col. Alexander Jefferson, who was one of 32 Tuskegee Airmen from the 332nd Fighter Group to be shot down defending a country...

ISBN: 9780823274383

The Diary of Prisoner 17326

The Diary of Prisoner 17326

John K. Stutterheim, Mark Parillo

John K. Stutterheim

In this moving memoir a young man comes of age in an age of violence, brutality, and war. Recounting his experiences during the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies, this account brings to life...

ISBN: 9780823231515

The Church of Greece under Axis Occupation

The Church of Greece under Axis Occupation

Panteleymon Anastasakis

Panteleymon Anastasakis

This study examines the response of the Greek clergy to the experience of enemy occupation during World War II. In particular, it evaluates how these men reacted to Axis brutality, the nationwide famine, the Holocaust, and the growth of national resistance movements during the period.

ISBN: 9780823261994

A Pact with Vichy

A Pact with Vichy

Emanuel Rota

Emanuel Rota

The illuminating intellectual biography of one of the most controversial Italian figures of the twentieth century.

ISBN: 9780823267293

An American Heroine in the French Resistance

An American Heroine in the French Resistance

Judy Barrett Litoff

Edited by Judy Barrett Litoff

This fascinating book tells the remarkable story of an ordinary American woman’s heroism in the French Resistance. Virginia Roush fell in love with Philippe d’Albert-Lake during a visit to France...

ISBN: 9780823225828

Combat Reporter

Combat Reporter

Don Whitehead, John B. Romeiser, Rick Atkinson, Benjamin Franklin

Don Whitehead

Edited by John B. Romeiser

Afterword by Benjamin Franklin

“No one bore witness better than Don Whitehead . . . this volume, deftly combining his diary and a previously unpublished memoir, brings Whitehead and his reporting back to life, and 21st-century...

ISBN: 9780823226757

Letters to Lee

James V. Edmundson, Celia Edmundson

James V. Edmundson

Edited by Celia Edmundson

In his 36 years of military service, Lt. General James V. Edmundson had extensive experience in combat operations and command at every level in the Air Force. He had over 10,000 hours of pilot time...

ISBN: 9780823230969

France during World War II

France during World War II

Thomas R. Christofferson, Michael S. Christofferson

Thomas R. Christofferson and Michael S. Christofferson

In this concise, clearly written book, Thomas and Michael Christofferson provide a balanced introduction to every aspect of the French experience during World War II.Synthesizing a wide range of scholarship,...

ISBN: 9780823225637

Beyond Hostile Islands

Beyond Hostile Islands

Daniel McKay, Patrick Porter

Daniel McKay

Offers a fascinating window into how the fraught politics of apology in the East Asian region have been figured in anglophone literary fiction.The Pacific War, 1941-1945, was fought across the world’s...

ISBN: 9781531505165

Chasing Ghosts

Louise DeSalvo

Louise DeSalvo

“Chasing Ghosts” describes how the daughter of a World War II veteran comes to understand her emotionally wounded father through his stories about his childhood, naval service in the late 1930s, and wartime experiences, and through the research she undertakes to understand her father’s life in the context of history.

ISBN: 9780823268849

The United States and the Second World War

The United States and the Second World War

G. Kurt Piehler, Sidney Pash

Edited by G. Kurt Piehler and Sidney Pash

In this compelling book, G. Kurt Piehler and Sidney Pash bring together a collection of essays offering a fresh examination of American participation in the Second World War, including a long overdue...

ISBN: 9780823252039

Jack Toffey's War

Jack Toffey's War

John J. Toffey, IV, John J. Toffey IV

John J. Toffey, IV and John J. Toffey IV

“I see this book as the story my father never got to tell,” John Toffey writes. And what a remarkable story it is that Lt. Col. Jack Toffey never got to tell.In this moving account of a young man’s...

ISBN: 9780823229796

The General and His Daughter

The General and His Daughter

Barbara Gavin Fauntleroy, Starlyn Jorgensen, Gayle Wurst

Barbara Gavin Fauntleroy

Edited by Gayle Wurst

James Maurice Gavin left for war in April 1943 as a colonel commanding the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division—America’s first airborne division and the first to fight...

ISBN: 9780823226870

Voices of My Comrades

Voices of My Comrades

Carol Adele Kelly, Ted Stevens, Daniel K. Inouye

Edited by Carol Adele Kelly

Over the course of five years, the Reserve Officers Association of the United States—the nation’s oldest such professional military organization—invited its members to write about their experiences...

ISBN: 9780823228232

Latvia in World War II

Latvia in World War II

Valdis O. Lumans

Valdis O. Lumans

Valdis Lumans provides an authoritative, balanced, and comprehensive account of one of the most complex, and conflicted, arenas of the Second World War. Struggling against both Germany and the Soviet...

ISBN: 9780823226276