A Transnational Approach to Resistance in Europe, 1936-48
The Escape Line: How the Ordinary Heroes of Dutch-Paris Resisted the Nazi Occupation of Western Europe Megan Koreman Oxford University Press Published: 07 May 2018 (Hardcover) 424 Pages | 75 b/w images; 9 maps ISBN: 9780190662271 The only full-length accounts of the Dutch-Paris Escape Line. Koreman is the only historian who has been granted access…
Organizers: Henning Borggräfe, Christian Höschler, Isabel Panek, Department of Research and Education at the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen. Venue: Bad Arolsen Date: 8-9 October 2018 Deadline for Papers: 1 April 2018 In the autumn of 1948, search bureaus of various European states accepted an invitation from the recently established International Tracing Service…
The International Journal of Military History and Historiography will commemorate the seventieth anniversary of the start of the Second World War with a special issue dedicated to the wartime experiences of women. The literature of the Second World War has shifted from a narrow focus on political, military and diplomatic interpretations of the origins and…
Sunday-Thursday, June 3-7, 2018, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem The Moshe Mirilashvili Center for Research on the Holocaust in the Soviet Union of the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem and the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum are pleased to invite applications for…
Dear colleagues, I’m happy to announce that my research on the Soviet Guerrilla’s Intelligence was published by the Hebrew University Publishing House (Magnes Press) and Yad Vashem. The book is based on my extensive archival research (13 archives) in the Former Soviet Union and Germany and contains a completely unique information about the Soviet Partisans…
Second World War Research Group Annual Conference, 14-15 June 2018. Strand Campus, King’s College, London. Keynotes: Prof. Nicholas Stargardt (Oxford) and Dr. Daniel Todman (Queen Mary) For the major Allied powers, the Second World War has long been seen as a ‘good’ war. This has led to a mythologised version of the conflict developing in…
Extended deadline to 30th November 2017 Special Issue: “Close encounters in irregular and asymmetric warfare” Close Encounters in War Journal is a new independent and peer-reviewed journal aimed at studying war as a human experience, through interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches ranging from the Humanities to the Social Sciences. The launch issue (n. 0) of Close…
Close Encounters in War Journal is a new independent and peer-reviewed journal aimed at studying war as a human experience, through interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches ranging from the Humanities to the Social Sciences. The launch issue (n. 0) of Close Encounters in War Journal will be a Special Issue dedicated specifically to irregular warfare and…
February 24, 2018 – Salle Marc Bloch, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris, France) Second World War historiography has largely focused, after 1945, on national particularisms and on regional and national perspectives. These studies highlight the history or the microhistory of a society in a small or large geographical area, confronted with the disruption of a war,…
Four programmes, presented by Monty Halls, will be shown during September and October 2017 at 8pm on Channel 4.