Routledge Studies in Second World War History
About the Book Series
The Second World War remains today the most seismic political event of the past hundred years, an unimaginable unpheaval that impacted upon every country on earth and is fully ingrained in the consciousness of the world's citizens. Traditional narratives of the conflict are entrenched to such a degree that new research takes on an ever important role in helping us make sense of World War II. Aiming to bring to light the results of new archival research and exploring notions of memory, propaganda, genocide, empire and culture, Routledge Studies in Second World War History sheds new light on the causes, events and legacy of global war.
Shoah and Torah
1st Edition
By David Patterson
May 31, 2023
Shoah and Torah systematically takes up the task of reading the Shoah through the lens of the Torah and the Torah through the lens of the Shoah.The investigation rests upon (1) the metaphysical standing that the Nazis ascribed to the Torah, (2) the obliteration of the Torah in the extermination of ...
Sweden, Japan, and the Long Second World War: 1931-1945
1st Edition
By Pascal Lottaz, Ingemar Ottosson
May 31, 2023
We thank Ekman & Co AB and Gadelius Holding Ltd for their kind and generous support, making this research available online for free. Lottaz and Ottosson explore the intricate relationship between neutral Sweden and Imperial Japan during the latter’s 15 years of warfare in Asia and in the ...
The Novel Das Boot, Political Responsibility, and Germany’s Nazi Past
1st Edition
By Dean J. Guarnaschelli
May 31, 2023
This study investigates the relationship between Lothar-Günther Buchheim (1918-2007), his bestselling 1973 novel Das Boot (The Boat), and West Germany’s Vergangenheitsbewältigung. As a war reporter during the Battle of the Atlantic, Buchheim benefitted from distinct privileges, yet he was never in ...
Tourism and Memory: Visitor Experiences of the Nazi and GDR Past
1st Edition
By Doreen Pastor
May 31, 2023
This book considers tourism to memorial sites from a visitor’s point of view, challenging established theories in tourism and memory studies by critically appraising Germany’s often celebrated memory culture. Based on visitor observations and exit interviews, this book examines how domestic and ...
World War II Historical Reenactment in Poland: The Practice of Authenticity
1st Edition
By Kamila Baraniecka-Olszewska
May 31, 2023
This book explores the consequences of the latest political shifts in Central Eastern Europe: the rise of right-wing parties and, among other things, politics becoming more invested in history. These phenomena coincide and overlap with the democratisation of history by turning the past into a hot ...
Mussolini’s Army against Greece: October 1940–April 1941
1st Edition
By Richard Carrier
September 26, 2022
This book analyses why the Italian army failed to defeat its Greek opponent between October 1940 and April 1941. It thoroughly examines the multiple forms of ineffectiveness that plagued the political leadership as well as the military organisation. Mussolini’s aggression of Greece ranks among the ...
The Jews of Denmark in the Holocaust: Life and Death in Theresienstadt Ghetto
1st Edition
By Silvia Tarabini Fracapane
August 01, 2022
Based on never previously explored personal accounts and archival documentation, this book examines life and death in the Theresienstadt ghetto, seen through the eyes of the Jewish victims from Denmark. "How was it in Theresienstadt?" Thus asked Johan Grün rhetorically when he, in July 1945, ...
Child Survivors of the Holocaust in Greece: Memory, Testimony and Subjectivity
1st Edition
By Pothiti Hantzaroula
May 30, 2022
A historical investigation of children’s memory of the Holocaust in Greece illustrates that age, generation and geographical background shaped postwar Jewish identities. The examination of children’s narratives deposited in the era of digital archives enables an understanding of the age-specific ...
Staging the Third Reich: Essays in Cultural and Intellectual History
1st Edition
By Anson Rabinbach, Stefanos Geroulanos, Dagmar Herzog
April 29, 2022
A widely celebrated intellectual historian of twentieth-century Europe, Anson Rabinbach is one of the most important scholars of National Socialism working over the last forty years. This volume collects, for the first time, his pathbreaking work on Nazi culture, antifascism, and the after-effects ...
War Through Italian Eyes: Fighting for Mussolini, 1940-1943
1st Edition
By Alexander Henry
December 24, 2021
There is a popular notion that the Italian armed forces of the Second World War were an inferior fighting force. Despite the vast numbers taken prisoner, detailed studies of the experiences of these soldiers remain relatively uncommon and the value of this group to furthering our understanding of ...
Food in Wartime Britain: Testimonies from the Kitchen Front (1939–1945)
1st Edition
By Natacha Chevalier
December 13, 2021
Based on deep analysis of Mass Observation wartime diaries, Food in Wartime Britain explores the food experience of the British middle classes in their own words throughout the course of the Second World War. It reveals that, while the food practices of the population were modified by rationing and...
The Polish Wild West: Forced Migration and Cultural Appropriation in the Polish-German Borderlands, 1945-1948
1st Edition
By Beata Halicka
December 13, 2021
The incorporation of German territories east of the Oder and Western Neisse rivers into Poland in 1945 was linked with the difficult process of an almost total exchange of population and involved the taking over of a region in which the Second World War had effected an enormous level of ...