Resources

Details of relevant resources, including books, book reviews and exhibitions will be posted here on a regular basis.

Book Reviews

Joshua D. Zimmerman. The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939-1945. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 469 pp. $128.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-01426-8.
Reviewed by Jadwiga Biskupska (Sam Houston State University). Published on H-Poland (November, 2018).

Dennis Deletant. British Clandestine Activities in Romania during the Second World War. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 257 pp. $100.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-137-57451-0.
Reviewed by Ștefan Cristian Ionescu (Uppsala University). Published on H-Romania (October, 2018).

Ada Gobetti. Partisan Diary: A Woman’s Life in the Italian Resistance. Translated and edited by Jomarie Alano. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. 358 pp. $38.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-938054-1.
Reviewed by Allison Belzer (Georgia Southern University, Armstrong Campus). Published on H-War (October, 2018).

Daniel Kupfert Heller. Jabotinsky’s Children: Polish Jews and the Rise of Right-Wing Zionism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. 352 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-691-17475-4.
Reviewed by Sean Martin (Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland). Published on H-Judaic (September, 2018).

Max Bergholz. Violence as a Generative Force: Identity, Nationalism, and Memory in a Balkan Community. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016. 464 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-0492-5.
Edin Hajdarpasic. Whose Bosnia? Nationalism and Political Imagination in the Balkans, 1840-1914. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015. xii + 271 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8014-5371-7.
Reviewed by John Paul Newman (National University of Ireland). Published on H-Genocide (August, 2018).

Gerben Zaagsma. Jewish Volunteers, the International Brigades and the Spanish Civil War. War, Culture and Society Series. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. 264 pp. $114.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4725-0549-1.
Reviewed by Joe Banin (University of Wisconsin-Madison). Published on H-War (August, 2018).

Alexander Victor Prusin. Serbia under the Swastika: A World War II Occupation. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017. 232 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-04106-8.
Reviewed by Luke Gramith (University of West Virginia). Published on H-War (June, 2018).

Kevin E. Simpson. Soccer under the Swastika: Stories of Survival and Resistance during the Holocaust. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2016. 368 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4422-6162-4.
Reviewed by Daniel Logemann (FSU Jena, Historisches Institut, Europäisches Kolleg Jena). Published on H-Poland (June, 2018).

Stephan Lehnstedt. Occupation in the East: The Daily Lives of German Occupiers in Warsaw and Minsk, 1939-1944. New York: Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2016. 306 pp. $130.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78533-323-1.
Reviewed by Matthew Schwonek (ACSC). Published on H-War (May, 2018).

Ferenc Laczó. Hungarian Jews in the Age of Genocide: An Intellectual History, 1929–1948. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2016. xii + 240 pp. $143.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-90-04-32464-0.
Reviewed by Brian Horowitz (Tulane University). Published on H-Nationalism (April, 2018).

Jochen Böhler, Robert Gerwarth, eds. The Waffen-SS: A European History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. xviii + 372 pp. Illustrations. $100.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-879055-6.
Reviewed by Jeff Rutherford (Wheeling Jesuit University). Published on H-German (March, 2018).

Theresa Kaminski. Angels of the Underground: The American Women Who Resisted the Japanese in the Philippines in World War II. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. xv + 497 pp. $27.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-992824-8.
Reviewed by Ryan Wadle (Air University). Published on H-War (March, 2018).

Sandra Ott. Living with the Enemy: German Occupation, Collaboration and Justice in the Western Pyrenees, 1940-1948. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 374 pp. $29.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-316-63087-7.
Reviewed by John Weigel (Carnegie Mellon University). Published on H-War (March, 2018).

Martin Sugarman. Under the Heel of Bushido: Last Voices of Jewish POWs of the Japanese in the Second World War. London: Vallentine Mitchell Publishers, 2014. xxiv + 666 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-85303-877-1.
Reviewed by Joseph Fonseca (University of Calgary). Published on H-War (March, 2018).

Gerald Steinacher. Humanitarians at War: The Red Cross in the Shadow of the Holocaust. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. 352 pp. $32.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-870493-5.
Reviewed by Kimberly A. Lowe (Lesley University). Published on H-Diplo (October, 2017).

Hunter Bivens. Epic and Exile: Novels of the German Popular Front, 1933-1945. FlashPoints Series. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2015. 344 pp. $45.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8101-3148-4.
Reviewed by Axel Fair-Schulz (SUNY-Potsdam). Published on H-Socialisms (September, 2017).

Hugo Service. Germans to Poles: Communism, Nationalism and Ethnic Cleansing after the Second World War. New Studies in European History Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. ix + 378 pp. $102.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-67148-5; $39.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-107-59548-4.
Reviewed by Agnes Laba (Bergische-University of Wuppertal). Published on H-Poland (August, 2017).

Raz Segal. Genocide in the Carpathians: War, Social Breakdown, and Mass Violence, 1914–1945. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016. 232 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8047-9666-8.
Reviewed by Hana Kubátová (Charles University). Published on H-Nationalism (July, 2017).

Robert Gildea, Combatientes en la sombra. La historia definitiva de la Resistencia francesa. Barcelona: Taurus, 2016, 648 pp. pp.164-168.
Reviewed by Diego Gaspar (Universidad de Alcalá de Henares). Published in Historiografías, revista de historia y teoría, 13 (enero-junio, 2017).

Tudor Georgescu. The Eugenic Fortress: The Transylvanian Saxon Experiment in Interwar Romania. CEU Press Studies in the History of Medicine Series. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2016. 240 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-963-386-139-4.
Reviewed by Sacha Davis (University of Newcastle). Published on H-Nationalism (June, 2017).

André Gerolymatos. An International Civil War: Greece, 1943-1949. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. 432 pp. $25.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-300-18060-2.
Reviewed by Robert Niebuhr (Barrett, The Honors College, Arizona State University). Published on H-War (June, 2017).

Mark Moyar. Oppose Any Foe: The Rise of America’s Special Operations Forces. Basic Books, 2017. pgs. $28.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-465-05393-3.
Reviewed by Robert Farley (University of Kentucky). Published on H-Diplo (June, 2017).

Igor Štiks. Nations and Citizens in Yugoslavia and the Post-Yugoslav States: One Hundred Years of Citizenship. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015. 240 pp. $108.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4742-2152-8.
Reviewed by Siniša Malešević (University College Dublin). Published on H-Nationalism (June, 2017).

Emanuele Sica. Mussolini’s Army in the French Riviera: Italy’s Occupation of France. History of Military Occupation Series. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2016. 312 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-03985-0.
Reviewed by Robert Weldon Whalen (Queens University of Charlotte). Published on H-War (May, 2017).

Adam Rayski. The Choice of the Jews under Vichy: Between Submission and Resistance. Notre Dame: University Of Notre Dame Press, 2015. 408 pp. $25.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-268-04061-1.
Reviewed by Laurien F. Vastenhout (University of Sheffield). Published on H-Judaic (April, 2017).

Otto Schrag, Peter Schrag. When Europe Was a Prison Camp: Father and Son Memoirs, 1940-1941. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015. Illustrations, map. 328 pp. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-01769-7.
Reviewed by Sebastian Huebel (University of British Columbia). Published on H-War (April, 2017).

Lily Sergueiew. I Worked Alone: Diary of a Double Agent in World War II Europe. Edited by Mary Kathryn Barbier. Jefferson: McFarland & Company, 2014. 320 pp. $39.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7864-9613-6.
Reviewed by Stacy Hushion (University of Toronto). Published on H-War (January, 2017).

Alexandra Richie. Warsaw 1944: Hitler, Himmler, and the Warsaw Uprising. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013. Illustrations. 738 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-374-28655-2.
Reviewed by Jonathan Beall (University of North Georgia). Published on H-War (December, 2016).
Reviewed by Jadwiga Biskupska (Sam Houston State University). Published on H-Poland (March, 2017).

Mark Celinscak. Distance from the Belsen Heap: Allied Forces and the Liberation of a Nazi Concentration Camp. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. 328 pp. $32.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-4426-1570-0; $75.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4426-4762-6.
Reviewed by Melissa Young (University of Alabama). Published on H-War (September, 2016).

Manuel Bragança, Peter Tame. The Long Aftermath: Cultural Legacies of Europe at War 1936–2016. New York: Berghahn Books, 2016. XVI, 388 S. $120.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78238-153-2.
Reviewed by Siobhan Kattago. Published on H-Soz-u-Kult (August, 2016).

David Drake. Paris at War: 1939-1944. Cambridge: Belknap Press, 2015. 592 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-50481-3.
Reviewed by Kelly Palmer (University of Colorado Denver). Published on H-War (August, 2016).

Isaac Lipschits. Undeliverable: A Letter of Reminiscence. Translated by Jeannette K. Ringold. London: Gainsborough House Press, 2015. 84 pp. $11.50 (paper), ISBN 978-1-909719-08-8.
Reviewed by Jessica V. Roitman (Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV)). Published on H-Low-Countries (August, 2016).

Richard Overy, ed. The Oxford Illustrated History of World War II. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Illustrations, maps. x + 492 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-960582-8.
Reviewed by Christopher Blaker (Oakland University). Published on H-War (July, 2016).

Peter N. Carroll. From Guernica to Human Rights: Essays on the Spanish Civil War. Kent: Kent State University Press, 2015. 216 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-60635-238-0.
Reviewed by Brian R. Price (Hawaii Pacific University). Published on H-War (June, 2016).

Anna Cichopek-Gajraj. Beyond Violence: Jewish Survivors in Poland and Slovakia, 1944-48. New Studies in European History Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 297 pp. $110.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-03666-6.
Reviewed by Tomasz Frydel (University of Toronto). Published on H-Poland (June, 2016).

David P. Colley. Seeing the War: The Stories behind the Famous Photographs from World War II. Lebanon: ForeEdge, 2015. Illustrations. 192 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-61168-726-2.
Reviewed by Mark Bernhardt (Jackson State University). Published on H-War (May, 2016).

Hedda Kalshoven, ed. Between Two Homelands: Letters across the Borders of Nazi Germany. Translated by Hester Velmans and Peter Fritzsche. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2014. xxxiv + 253 pp. $25.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-252-07985-6; $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-03830-3.
Reviewed by W. Mikkel Dack (University of Calgary). Published on H-German (May, 2016).

Peter F. Dembowski. Memoirs Red and White: Poland, the War, and After. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2015. 216 pp. $25.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-268-02620-2.
Reviewed by Matthew Schwonek (Air University, Air Command and Staff College). Published on H-War (April, 2016).

Cecile Esther Kuznitz. YIVO and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture: Scholarship for the Yiddish Nation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 324 pp. $110.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-01420-6.
Reviewed by Katherine Lebow (Central European University). Published on H-Poland (April, 2016).

Ştefan Cristian Ionescu. Jewish Resistance to ‘Romanianization’, 1940–44. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. xv + 270 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-137-48458-1.
Reviewed by Cosmin Sebastian Cercel (University of Nottingham). Published on H-Nationalism (April, 2016).

Jerome W. Sheridan. American Airman in the Belgian Resistance: Gerald E. Sorensen and the Transatlantic Alliance. Jefferson: McFarland, 2014. 260 pp. $35.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7864-9497-2.
Reviewed by Lisa Beckenbaugh (Benedictine College). Published on H-War (March, 2016).

Eric T. Jennings. Free French Africa in World War II: The African Resistance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 315 pp. $27.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-107-69697-6.
Reviewed by Sarah Zimmerman (Western Washington University). Published on H-Diplo (February, 2016).

Claudio Pavone. A Civil War: A History of the Italian Resistance. Ed. Stanislao Pugliese. Trans. Peter Levy and David Broder. New York: Verso, 2013. Pp. xxiv, 744. ISBN 978–1–84467–750–4.
Reviewed by Richard Hammond (Joint Services Command and Staff College). Published on Michigan War Studies Review (February 2016).

Jelena Batinić. Women and Yugoslav Partisans: A History of World War II Resistance. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. x + 287 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-09107-8.
Reviewed by Robin Lech (Air University, Air Command and Staff College). Published on H-War (January, 2016).

Michael Neiberg. Potsdam: The End of World War II and the Remaking of Europe. New York: Basic Books, 2015. 336 pp. $29.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-465-07525-6.
Reviewed by Ryan Wadle (Air University eSchool). Published on H-War (December, 2015).

Heda Margolius Kovaly. Under A Cruel Star: A Life in Prague 1941-1968. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1997. 192 pp. $15.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8419-1377-6.
Reviewed by Andrea Orzoff (Stanford University). Published on HABSBURG (June, 1998).