The Book Company: New Products - World War II

Postnational Memory, Peace and War (Making Pasts Beyond Borders)

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 01:28:04 +0000

This book examines the phenomenon of modern memory as a reaction to total war, an aspiration to truth-seeking provoked by the independent forces of modern war and collective violence which is transnational, or postnational, in character.

Price: $233.99

German Reunification (Unfinished Business)

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 22:50:37 +0000

In 1945, German families with more than 100 hectares (247 acres) of land were forced from their homes by the Soviet authorities now in control of that area. These families were brutally evicted from their property and had their land expropriated. In the next 45 years the GDR government would co..

Price: $233.99

The Cobra Movement in Postwar Europe (Reanimating Art)

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 21:05:04 +0000

This book examines the art of Cobra, a network of poets and artists from Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam (1948–51). Although the name stood for the organizers’ home cities, the Cobra artists hailed from countries in Europe, Africa, and the United States.

Price: $249.99

Art, Cybernetics and Pedagogy in Post-War Britain (Roy Ascott's Groundcourse)

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 20:25:04 +0000

This study about the British artist Roy Ascott, one of the first cybernetic artists, with a career spanning seven decades to date. The book focuses on his early career, exploring the evolution of his early interests in communication in the context of the rich overlaps between art, science and e..

Price: $233.99

Archaeologies of Hitler's Arctic War (Heritage of the Second World War German Military Presence in Finnish Lapland)

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 20:21:52 +0000

This book discusses the archaeology and heritage of the German military presence in Finnish Lapland during the Second World War. The scholarship herein provides fresh perspectives to discussions on heritage perception and ownership, indigenous rights, community empowerment, relational ontologie..

Price: $233.99

Global Great Depression and the Coming of World War II

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 17:56:14 +0000

This book demonstrates the ways in which the economic crisis of the late 1920s and early 1930s helped to cause and shape World War II. John Moser points to the essential uniformity in the way in which the world's industrialized and industrializing nations responded to the challenge of the Depressi..

Price: $249.99

Conceptualizing Mass Violence (Representations, Recollections, and Reinterpretations)

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 17:13:06 +0000

Conceptualizing Mass Violence draws attention to the conspicuous inability to inhibit mass violence in myriads forms and considers the plausible reasons for doing so. Focusing on a postcolonial perspective, the volume seeks to popularize and institutionalize the study of mass violence ..

Price: $233.99

The Age of the Dictators (A Study of the European Dictatorships, 1918-53)

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 16:15:18 +0000

This comprehensive yet succinct history of twentieth century European Dictators stresses both the similairities and differences in each regime.

Written for undergraduate students studying modern European History, this book profiles each dictator and sets them within the context of their ..

Price: $233.99

D-Day: 6th June 1944 (The Allied Invasion of Normandy)

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 23:03:57 +0000

The 80th Anniversary of D-Day falls on June 6, 2024.

In the early hours of that morning, three divisions of paratrooper and glider forces descended on Normandy. Already assembling offshore was the largest seaborne invasion fleet in the history of the world, ready to unleash over 130,..

Price: $34.99

Battle of Britain: 80th Anniversary (1940 - 2020)

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 23:03:44 +0000

This highly illustrated book is packed with great stories of aerial combat and being shot down; of the classic fighters that they flew and fought in and against; of making and losing friends and colleagues; of a strained social life in the midst of battle; and, most of all, of standing steadfas..
Price: $32.95