New Books in Military History
Interviews with Scholars of Military History about their New Books
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- Interviews with Scholars of Military History about their New Books
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- š¬š§ English
- last modified
- 2025-01-04 15:30
- last episode published
- 2025-01-04 09:00
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- 4.53 days
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2025-01-04 |
Marc Gallicchio, "Unconditional: The Japanese Surrender in World War II" (Oxford UP, 2020) Signed on September 2, 1945 aboard the American battleship USSĀ MissouriĀ in Tokyo Bay by Japanese and Allied leaders, the instrument of surrender formally ended the war in the Pacific and brought to a close one of the most cataclysmic engagements in his... |
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| 2025-01-04 | In a narrative-redefining approach,Ā Engaging the Evil Empire: Washington, Moscow, and the Beginning of the End of the Cold WarĀ (Cornell UP, 2020) dramatically alters how we look at the beginning of the end of the Cold War. Tracking key events in US-Sov... |
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| 2025-01-03 |
Polly Zavadivker, "A Nation of Refugees: Russia's Jews in World War I" (Oxford UP, 2024) When the Great War began, the Russian Empire was home to more than five million Jews, the most densely settled Jewish population anywhere in the world. Thirty years later, only remnants of this civilization remained. The years of war from 1914 to 1918 ... |
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| 2025-01-02 |
Doris L. Bergen, "Between God and Hitler: Military Chaplains in Nazi Germany" (Cambridge UP, 2023) During the Second World War, approximately 1000 Christian chaplains accompanied Wehrmacht forces wherever they went, from Poland to France, Greece, North Africa, and the Soviet Union. Chaplains were witnesses to atrocity and by their presence helped no... |
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| 2025-01-02 | Photography emerged in the 1840s in the United States, and it became a visual medium that documents the harsh realities of enslavement. Similarly, the photography culture grew during the Civil War, and it became an important material that archived this... |
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| 2024-12-31 |
Hugh Wilford, "The CIA: An Imperial History" (Basic Books, 2024) As World War II ended, the United States stood as the dominant power on the world stage. In 1947, to support its new global status, it created the CIA to analyze foreign intelligence. But within a few years, the Agency was engaged in other operations: ... |
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| 2024-12-30 | A masterful narrative history of the dangerous lives of pirates during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, revealing their unique impact on colonialism and empire. The pirates that exist in our imagination are not just any pirates. Violent sea-ra... |
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| 2024-12-28 | Central Asia in World War Two: The Impact and Legacy of Fighting for the Soviet UnionĀ (Bloomsbury, 2024)Ā is the first book to tackle the subject of minorities fighting for the Soviet Union under Stalin in the Second World War. Based on meticulous archi... |
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| 2024-12-28 | We think we know all there is to know about Britain's Second World War. We don't. This radical re-interpretation of British history and British Conservatism between 1939 and 1945 reveals the bold, at times utopian, plans British Conservatives drew up f... |
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| 2024-12-22 |
Amy Helen Bell, "Under Cover of Darkness: Murders in Blackout London" (Yale UP, 2024) Fear was the unacknowledged spectre haunting the streets of London during the Second World War; fear not only of death from the German bombers circling above, but of violence at the hands of fellow Londoners in the streets below. Mass displacement, the... |
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