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Harvey dissects the long, complicated, and fascinating relationship between America and Japan through a dual biography of the shogun Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Emperor Hirohito and the rival systems they represented.

Overlook, 2006; 480 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hb

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Collaboration and Resistance gathers for the first time more than 650 archival documents, illustrating the extreme challenges faced by French writers and intellectuals during the dark years of the Nazi occupation.

Consortium, 2009; 446 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w & col; hb

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Tells the story of Operation Overlord, the largest and most meticulously planned seaborne invasion in the history of warfare. As dawn broke on 6 June, thousands of Allied soldiers hit the Normandy beaches and stormed the German defences.

Capella, 2004; 144 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; pb

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In 1925, Germany's leading chemical companies banded together in the cartel IG Farben to protect their business from international competion. Jeffreys shines a light on the cartel's Faustian pact with the Third Reich -the military-industrial complex.

Bloomsbury, 2008; 406 pp.; EN; index; hb

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From the summer of 1942 until the end of 1943, Ernest Hemingway actively patrolled the Gulf Stream and the waters off Cuba in his wooden fishing boat Pilar looking for German submarines, under the auspices of the US Navy's antisubmarine programme. Terry Mort's incisive portrait combines biography, military history, and literary commentary, and suggests that the quixotic aspects of Hemingway's patrols would inspire such masterpieces as The Old Man and the Sea.

Scribner, 2009; 254 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hb

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Centraal op deze 3 DVD's staan de jaren 1942-45, de periode dat Nederlands-Indie bezet werd door Japan. Uniek kleurenmateriaal uit 1941 brengt het vooroorlogse Indie in beeld. Authentiek Japans filmmateriaal
laat de geraffineerde Japanse porpaganda en het dagelijks leven van de Indonesische bevolking zien. Indrukwekkende beelden van geallieerde camerateams tonen het leven in de burgerinterneringskampen direct na de Japanse capitulatie.

In 1938 Hitler had been in power for more than 5 years, had abrogated most of the constraints placed on German militarism by the Treaty of Versailles. It was in this climate that a coup was born, led by Lieutenant-Colonel Hans Oster, military leaders a.o.

Pimlico, 2004; 232 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; pb

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Propaganda is as much a weapon as tanks and guns, and it was deployed by German forces at the ferocious Battle of Cassino in May 1944 in hopes of impelling members of the multinational Allied forces to desert their comrades. This book is a catalogue of propaganda leaflets, reproduced here in colour in the original size, collected during the battle, documenting the Nazi's skillful but ultimately unsuccessful campaign to win the battle.

Mark Batty Publ., 2005; 64 pp.; EN; ills. b/w & col; hb

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Reaping the Whirlwind uses the authentic voices of the German and Japanese people caught up in WWII. Drawing on a wide range of archive sources, this is an account of the thoughts and feelings of those for whom the enemy was the Allies.

David and Charles, 2007; 288 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hb

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Hitler's Secret Plot to Seize the Vatican and Kidnap Pope Pius XII
Furious over Mussolini's overthrow in 1943 and worried about the Vatican reaction to the deportation of Rome's Jews to German death camps, Adolf Hitler sent SS general Karl Wolff to Rome with a wild plan to kidnap the pope.

Da Capo, 2007; 285 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hb

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From the early blitzkriegs through Eastern Europe and the Low Countries to the days of reckoning in shattered Berlin, Veranov covers all the Wehrmacht's major battles and campaigns of WWII.

Magpie, 2010; 624 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; pb

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The July 20, 1944 plot to kill Hitler has received much historical attention from historians. As a rare firsthand memoir by a participant, this narrative gives a personal account of the events and the conspirators' motives. Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager and his brother Georg were persuaded to join the plot co-hatched by col. Henning von Tresckow.

Knopf, 2009; 211 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hb

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