At the Battle of Stalingrad in January 1943, the German Wehrmacht looked hopeless.
Hitler’s Army: Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reich (1991)
Soviet Baby Boomers: An Oral History of Russia’s Cold War Generation by Donald Raleigh (2013)
Recalling his formative years as an American baby boomer and the influence the Cold War and the Soviet Union had on his worldview, Donald Raleigh asks what life was like for people his age in the Soviet Union? What were their concerns about the future? How did they spend their time and what did Cold War ideological battles mean for their daily lives?
Handbook of African American Texas
Do you love Texas history? The Texas State Historical Association, which makes Texas history readily accessible through its Digital Gateway to Texas History, now offers a huge, new, terrific series of readings in the Handbook of African American Texas.
The Hadamar Trial: Inadequacies of Postwar Justice
The Hadamar War Crimes Case, formally known as United States of America v. Alfons Klein et al., commenced in early October of 1945 and figured as the first postwar mass atrocity trial prosecuted in the American-occupied zone of Germany.
Stirring the Hornet’s Nest: How the USS Hornet CV-8 Paved the Way to Victory at Midway
When the United States entered World War II in 1942, the Japanese fleet, led by Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, dominated the Pacific.
Episode 24: European Imperialism in the Middle East (part 2)
Episode 23: European Imperialism in the Middle East (part 1)
Mark Metzler on Post-War Japan
In the fifteen years after World War II, Japan made an astounding transition from wartime devastation to the boom known as the “Era of High-Speed Growth.” Japan’s High-Speed Growth system was an epoch-making innovation, that opened the current Asian age of world industrialization.
A Ferro e Fuoco: La Guerra Civile Europea, 1914-1945 by Enzo Traverso (2008)
The period from 1914-1945 has sometimes been called a "European Civil War," but that concept has rarely been put to a systematic examination. Fortunately, Italian historian Enzo Traverso's recent work A Ferro e Fuoco, which can be loosely translated as Put to the Sword, offers some intriguing proposals for understanding the period as a continental civil war.
42 (2013)
The new film 42 tells the story of Jackie Robinson’s heroic effort to integrate Major League Baseball.