Product Description: Cat Wilson brings together two strands of historical scholarship: Churchill's work as a historian and the history of WWII in the Far East. Examining Churchill's portrayal of the British Empire's war against Japan, as set down in his memoirs, it ascertains whether he mythologised wartime Anglo-American relations to present a 'special relationship'...read more

How we view ourselves and how we wish to be seen by others cannot be separated from the stories we tell about our past. In this sense all memory is in crisis, torn between conflicting motives of historical reflection, political expediency, and personal or collective imagination. In Crises of Memory and the Second World War, Susan Suleiman conducts a profound exploration of contested terrain, where individual memories converge with public remembrance of traumatic events. Suleiman is one of a handful of scholars who have shaped the interdisciplinary study of memory, with its related concepts of trauma, testimony, forgetting, and forgiveness. In this book she argues that memories of World War II, while nationally specific, transcend national boundaries, due not only to the global nature of the war but also to the increasingly global presence of the Holocaust as a site of collective memory. Among the works she discusses are Jean-Paul Sartre’s essays on the occupation and Resistance in France; Marcel Ophuls’ innovative documentary on Klaus Barbie, tried for crimes against humanity; István Szabó’s film Sunshine, a chronicle of Jewish identity in central Europe; literary memoirs by Jorge Semprun and Elie Wiesel; and experimental writing by child survivors of the Holocaust.

Product Description: A concise, richly illustrated narrative of the war and the effect it had on human life and history In September 1939 Hitler's Nazi Germany invaded Poland, sparking international condemnation and declarations of war on Germany from France and most of the British Empire and Commonwealth...read more

'Analysis of Truman's decision to use nuclear arms against Japan through essays written by military and diplomatic historians'--Provided by publisher.

Product Description: D-Day Japan V-J Day The Atom Bomb: they are only a small part of the poorly recorded, distorted and obliterated history of World War II in Asia and the Pacific. This book will show the unbelievable loss of life and horrors of what would have been D-Day in Japan, which was prevented by the atomic bomb, and V-J Day well before D-Day Japan...read more

Provides a close-up analysis of the dual roles that Winston Churchill played in relation to World War II, both as a statesman who led his country during the turbulent years of the war, and as a premier historian who chronicled the events of the era in six epic volumes of memoirs. Reprint.

Product Description: A companion to World War II in Europe, Africa, and the Americas, this volume reevaluates the most enduring literature on basic aspects of the war in Asia and the Pacific. It also covers themes pertaining to societies at war, culture, the arts, and science and technology as well as international relations and the postwar world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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The noted military historian evaluates works ranging from accounts of individual campaigns to general histories, biographies, and studies of espionage

Product Description: This essay presents reflections by a historian on the meaning of the Pacific war on the fiftieth anniversary of its termination. It opens with a review of the military and political importance of the war and moves on to discuss its apparent lessons...read more

Product Description: First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.