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  • War, Genocide and Cultural Memory

    The Waffen-SS, 1933 to Today

    by Claus Bundgård Christensen, Niels Bo Poulsen, Peter Scharff Smith ...
    This book presents the most comprehensive study of the Waffen-SS until this date. Based on archival studies done in more than 20 archives in 13 different countries over a period of 5 years the book covers the entire history of the Waffen-SS and follows the post-war fate of the SS-veterans as well. The evolution of the Waffen-SS is analysed with special emphasis on the role of Nazi ideology, war ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Prisons, Punishment, and the Family

    Towards a New Sociology of Punishment?

    Edited by Rachel Condry, Peter Scharff Smith ...
    Every year millions of families are affected by the imprisonment of a family member. Children of imprisoned parents alone can be counted in millions in the USA and in Europe. It is a bewildering fact that while we have had prisons for centuries, and the deprivation of liberty has been a central pillar in the Western mode of punishment since the early nineteenth century, we have only relatively ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Solitary Confinement

    Effects, Practices, and Pathways toward Reform

    Edited by Jules Lobel, Peter Scharff Smith ...
    The use of solitary confinement in prisons became common with the rise of the modern penitentiary during the first half of the nineteenth century and his since remained a feature of many prison systems all over the world. Solitary confinement is used for a panoply of different reasons although research tells us that these practices have widespread negative health effects. Besides the death penalty ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

  • Scandinavian Penal History, Culture and Prison Practice

    Embraced By the Welfare State?

    Edited by Peter Scharff Smith, Thomas Ugelvik ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book draws on historical and cross-disciplinary studies to critically examine penal practices in Scandinavia. The Nordic countries are often hailed by international observers as ‘model societies’, with egalitarian welfare policies, low rates of poverty, humane social policies and human rights oriented internal agendas. This book, however, paints a much more nuanced picture of the welfare ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

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  • The End

    The Defiance and Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1944-1945

    by Ian Kershaw ...
    From the preeminent Hitler biographer, a fascinating and original exploration of how the Third Reich was willing and able to fight to the bitter end of World War II.Countless books have been written about why Nazi Germany lost World War II, yet remarkably little attention has been paid to the equally vital question of how and why it was able to hold out as long as it did. The Third Reich did not ... Read more

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  • Heinrich Himmler: A Life

    A Life

    by Peter Longerich ...
    As head of the SS, chief of police, 'Reichskommissar for the Consolidation of Germanness', and Reich Interior Minister, Heinrich Himmler enjoyed a position of almost unparalleled power and responsibility in Nazi Germany. Perhaps more than any other single Nazi leader aside from Hitler, his name has become a byword for the terror, persecution, and destruction that characterized the Third Reich. His ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Hitler: Downfall

    1939-1945

    by Volker Ullrich ...
    Translated by Jefferson Chase ...
    A riveting account of the dictator’s final years, when he got the war he wanted but led his nation, the world, and himself to catastrophe—from the author of Hitler: Ascent“Skillfully conceived and utterly engrossing.” —The New York Times Book ReviewIn the summer of 1939, Hitler was at the zenith of his power. Having consolidated political control in Germany, he was at the helm of a newly restored ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Third Reich at War

    1939-1945

    by Richard J. Evans ...
    Series Book 3 - The Third Reich Trilogy
    **An absorbing, revelatory, and definitive account of one of the greatest tragedies in human history, by the author of The Coming of the Third Reich, The Third Reich in Power, and Hitler's People“This is history in the grand style, the kind of large-scale narrative that few historians dare to write these days. It is difficult to imagine how it could be improved upon, let alone surpassed.” —The ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The German War

    A Nation Under Arms, 1939-1945

    by Nicholas Stargardt ...
    A groundbreaking history of what drove the Germans to fight -- and keep fighting -- for a lost cause in World War IIIn The German War, acclaimed historian Nicholas Stargardt draws on an extraordinary range of firsthand testimony -- personal diaries, court records, and military correspondence -- to explore how the German people experienced the Second World War.When war broke out in September 1939, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Kiev 1941

    Hitler's Battle for Supremacy in the East

    by David Stahel ...
    In just four weeks in the summer of 1941 the German Wehrmacht wrought unprecedented destruction on four Soviet armies, conquering central Ukraine and killing or capturing three quarters of a million men. This was the Battle of Kiev - one of the largest and most decisive battles of World War II and, for Hitler and Stalin, a battle of crucial importance. In this 2011 book, David Stahel charts the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East

    by David Stahel ...
    Series series Cambridge Military Histories
    Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, began the largest and most costly campaign in military history. Its failure was a key turning point of the Second World War. The operation was planned as a Blitzkrieg to win Germany its Lebensraum in the east, and the summer of 1941 is well-known for the German army's unprecedented victories and advances. Yet the German Blitzkrieg ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • Eight Days in May

    The Final Collapse of the Third Reich

    by Volker Ullrich ...
    Translated by Jefferson Chase ...
    **"[G]ripping, immaculately researched . . . In Mr. Ullrich’s account, the murderous behavior of the Reich’s last-ditch loyalists was not a reaction born of rage or of stubbornness in the face of defeat—common enough in war—but of something that had long ago tipped over into the pathological." —Andrew Stuttaford, Wall Street JournalThe best-selling author of Hitler: Ascent and Hitler: Downfall ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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