- Afrika Korps
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
- Age of Extremes
The Short Twentieth Century 1914 - 1991
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
A overview of the history of the years 1914 - 1991.
- Als Feuer vom Himmel fiel
Der Bombenkrieg gegen die Deutschen
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2003
- The American Heritage Picture History of World War II
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1966
- American Power and the New Mandarins
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
Chomsky writes about American power and violence, especially in the context of the Vietnam war, and he focuses especially on the complicity of American intellectuals in supporting and enabling the American imperial project.
- Answers to a Questionnaire on the War
Published in Left, No. 62, November 1941.
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1941
- Armageddon
The Battle for Germany 1944-45
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
An account of the prolonged allied battle for Germany between June 1944 and April 1945.
- An Army of Amateurs
The Story of the SOE Resistance Movement in France
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1961
A first-hand account of the resistance in Nazi-occupied France.
- Atlas of Wordl War II
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
- The Battle of Alamein
Turning Point, World War II
Resource Type: Book
An account of the desert war that began with the Italian invasion of Egypt in September 1940 and ended with the surrender of Axis forces in Tunis in May 1943. "Desert Fox" Erwin Rommel and the English Lieutenant General Bernard "Monty" Montgomery are the pivotal actors in the story.
- Behind Enemy Lines
WWII Allied/Axis Propaganda
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
- A Bend in the Labyrinth - Book Review
Against The Current vol. 160
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Book review of 'The Century’s Midnight: Dissenting European and American Writers in the Era of the Second World War' by Clive Bush.
- The Best of Signal
Hitler's Wartime Picture Magazine
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1984
- Beyond Judgment
Resource Type: Article
- Blood and Belonging
Journey into the New Nationalism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
Essays on nationalism in Serbia, Croatia, Germany, Ukraine, Quebec, Kurdistan, and Northern Ireland.
- Bloody Victory
Canadians and the D-Day Campaign 1944
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
- Catch-22
Resource Type: Book
- Commando
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 5 - January 1981 - Militarism/Militarisme
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
- Desert War in North Africa
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1967
- Did Roosevelt know in advance about the attack on Pearl Harbor yet say nothing?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2001
Examining another popular conspiracy theory.
- Dr Seuss Goes to War
The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
- Dutch resistance
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Dutch resistance to the Nazi occupation during World War II.
- Eichmann in Jerusalem
A report on the banality of evil
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1965
Hannah Arendt's report on the trial of Adolph Eichmann.
- 100 Wörter des Jahrhunderts
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
- El Alamein
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1962
- Endgame 1945
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2009
Human history of the end of the second world war. Tha author uses the personal accounts of witnesses, soldiers and prisoners to bring to life the chaos that followed VE Day in 1945 across Europe.
- Escape From Canada!
The Amazing Untold Story of German POWs in Canada, 1939-1945
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1986
- Failure of a Dream?
Essays in the History of American Socialism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
Examines the reasons for the relative weakness of American socialism.
- February strike (The Netherlands)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A general strike organized during World War II in The Netherlands against the anti-Jewish measures and activities by the Nazis.
- Firing Line
Resource Type: Book
- Die Flucht
Uber die Vertreibing der Deutschen aus dem Osten
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2002
- Jörg Friedrich
Resource Type: Article
Jörg Friedrich is a Berlin-based author of books on history commonly described as an "independent German Historian". Friedrich is best known for his publication Der Brand (2002) in which he portrays the Allied bombing of civilian targets during World War II as systematic and in many ways pointless mass murder.
- From Yalta To VietNam
American Foreign Policy In The Cold War
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1967
- George Orwell: A Life
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1980
A biography of George Orwell.
- German resistance
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The opposition by individuals and groups in Nazi Germany to the regime of Adolf Hitler between 1933 and 1945.
- The Good War, Revisited
The Bombing of Pearl Harbor: What FDR Knew
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Each Pearl Harbor day offers a fresh opportunity for those who correctly believe that Franklin Roosevelt knew of an impending attack by the Japanese and welcomed it as a way of snookering the isolationists and getting America into the war.
- Greek Resistance
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The term for a number of armed and unarmed groups from across the political spectrum that resisted the Axis Occupation of Greece in the period 1941-1944 during the Second World War.
- The Green Trees Beyond
A Memoir
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
R.D. Lawrence, a self-taught biologist whose first years of life coincided with the Spanish civil war, and who later became a noted as well as self-taught Canadian biologist.
- History of the Second World War
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
- History of Second World War - Part 17
Civilians in the Front
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- The History of the German Resistance 1933-1945
Widerstand, Staatsstreich, Attentat
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
A thorough portrayal of the plans, hesitations, frustrations, and failures of the opposition to Hitler.
- Hitler
Resource Type: Book
- Hitler's Propaganda Machine
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
- The Holocaust
The Fate of European Jewry, 1932-1945
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
An comprehensive history of Hitler's war on the Jews of Europe.
- The Holocaust Chronicle
A History in Words and Pictures
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
A chronological account of the genocide of European Jews at the hands of the Nazis.
- I Will Bear Witness
A Diary of the Nazi Years 1933-1941
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
These diaries, written in secrecy, provide a vivid account of everyday life in Hitler's Germany. Although he was baptized a Protestant, Klemperer was still considered a Jew by the regime and saw his freedom slowly taken away.
- IBM and the Holocaust
The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2001
Nazi Germany employed IBM Hollerith punch-card machines to perform critical tasks in carrying out the Holocaust and the German war effort, cranking out lists of Jews which were then turned over to the SS for deportation and eventual extermination.
- Johnny Sold His Gun
The Untold Story of US Outlaw GIs in WWII Europe
Resource Type: Article
Although it was not reported at the time, thousands of American soldiers had gone AWOL and were wandering the European countryside or congregating in cities such as Paris and Brussels.
- Luftangriff auf Kassel am 22 Oktober 1943
Resource Type: Article
- Luxembourgian general strike 1942
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A pacific resistance movement organised within a short time period to protest against a directive that incorporated the Luxembourg youth into the Wehrmacht.
- Maple Leaf Against The Axis
Canada's Second World War
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1995
- A Marxist History of the World part 87: The Causes of the Second World War
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
As Hitler sought to expand Germany's sphere of influence in Europe, Britain's policy of appeasement reflected the interests of the British ruling classes – until German power became overwhelming.
- A Marxist History of the World part 88: The Second World War
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
With the great powers fighting to defend their empires, the Second World War would re-divide the world between competing blocs of capitalists.
- A Marxist History of the World part 89: 1941-1945: barbarism in a world gone mad
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The Second World War was characterised by primeval savagery. Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia and Militarist Japan waged war with unprecedented brutality, but the ‘democracies’ also committed terrible war crimes.
- A Marxist History of the World part 90: The Second World War: resistance
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Large parts of Occupied Europe were liberated by local resistance movements. But the potential for a revolutionary transformation was smothered at birth.
- A Marxist History of the World part 92: The Great Boom
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
In the first three decades after the war, the world economy experienced unprecedented growth rates and falling unemployment. But the boom rested on unstable foundations.
- A Marxist History of the World part 94: End of Empire?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
In spite of the imperialist powers' attempts to cling on to their colonies, formal empire was finished by the late 1970s. But this was not the end of imperialism.
- Merchant Navy Commemorative Theme Project
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
During the Second World War, a total of 25,343 merchant ships, with 164,783,921 tons of cargo on-board, sailed from North America to Britain. However, the true cost of the war at sea was in human lives lost in defence of freedom - the Canadian Merchant Navy alone lost one seafarer in eight, out of the 12,000 that faithfully served their country.
- Merchant Navy Veterans Day of Remembrance Ceremony
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Merchant Navy Veterans Day of Remembrance Ceremony. September 8, 2013, National War Monument, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Join us as we recognize the contributions and sacrifice of the Canadian Merchant Navy.
- Mussolini
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
War Leader Book No. 13 in Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century
- Norwegian resistance movement
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Resistance to the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany.
- 1,418 days of WWII viewed through lens of legendary Soviet photographer
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Profile of Soviet photographer Yevgeny Khaldei and a sample of his photographs captured during WWII.
- Orwell
The War Broadcasts
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1986
- The Oxford Companion to World War II
Resource Type: Book
Written by an international team, its 1,750 entries cover many aspects of World War II. It contains pictures, diagrams, tables, and maps.
- The Oxford History of Modern War
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
The book is a military history, principally from the defeat of the Ottoman besiegers of Vienna in 1683.
- Park Prisoners
The Untold Story of Western Canada's National Parks 1915 - 1946
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1995
- Passionate Declarations
Essays on War and Justice
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
Essays looking at American political ideology.
- The Patricias: A Century of Service
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
There have been many books that have examined the various regiments of the Canadian Forces. But few have been written with the depth of expertise and wealth of imagery seen in The Patricias: A Century of Service.
- A People's History of the World
From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
- Pilecki, Witold
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A member of the Polish resistance and the only known person to volunteer to be imprisoned at Auschwitz concentration camp. (1901-1948).
- Politics Past
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
A collection of essays by Dwight Macdonald.
- Rescue as Resistance
How Jewish Organizations Fought the Holocaust in France
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
- Rescue of the Danish Jews
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
When Hitler ordered that Danish Jews be arrested and deported on 1-2 October 1943, many Danes took part in a collective effort to evacuate the roughly 8,000 Jews of Denmark by sea to nearby neutral Sweden.
- Resistance during World War II
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
- Resistance in Europe: 1939 - 45
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1976
Essays on the resistance against Hitler during World War II.
- Revolutionary Nonviolence
Essays by Dave Dellinger
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
Dellinger says that "those of us who oppose the violence of the status quo and reject the violence of armed revolt and class hatred bear a heavy responsibility to struggle existentially to provdew nonviolent alternatives." Dellinger's essays attempt to explore those alternatives.
- Second world war - Guardian special reports
Resource Type: Article
- 75 Years Ago, the Battle of Stalingrad
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
The impact of the Battle of Stalingrad was enormous. In Germany, the public was henceforth painfully aware that their country was heading towards an ignominious defeat, and countless people who had previously supported the Nazi regime now turned against it.
- Sisters in the Resistance
The Women's War to Free France
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1995
Weitz documented accounts of 70 women involved in the Resistance.
- Sousa Mendes, Aristides de
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Portuguese diplomat who ignored and defied the orders of his own government for the safety of war refugees fleeing from invading German military forces in the early years of World War II. (1885-1954).
- Die Stille der Steine
Warschau im November 1944
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
- The Bombing of Civilians in World War II
Resource Type: Article
Is the deliberate mass murder of civilians on a huge scale ever justified? This article does not have an answer for this question. However, it is important to note that this was a very specific goal of England and America in World War II as the quotes above show. Germany and Japan also bombed civilians but the scale of what they did was a tiny fraction of their opponents. More people died in the bombing of Hamburg alone that in the entire German bombing campaign against England. Was the Anglo-American bombing necessary or moral? Many serious military experts feel it was a poor choice in terms of military priorities. What follows is documentation from both sides.
- Through Blood & Sweat
A Remembrance Trek across Sicilly's World War II Battlegrounds
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
- Towards a New Cold War
Essays on the Current Crisis and How We Got There
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1982
A sobering assessment of American foreign policy from the end of the Vietnam era to Ronald Reagan.
- Two in one?
A review of Donny Gluckstein, A People's History of the Second World War: Resistance Versus Empire (Pluto, 2012)
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The Second World War was and still is the example of the “good war”, a war that put an end to Auschwitz, a war fought not only by regular armies but also by mass movements of anti-fascist resistance.
- The University of Toronto
A History
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2002
- War from above, resistance from below
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
A review of Donny Gluckstein (ed), Fighting on all Fronts: Popular Resistance and the Second World War. As Donny Gluckstein points out in the introduction to this book, understanding the nature of the Second World War is fundamental to our understanding of the world today. Liberal and left wing opinion sees it as a war between democracy and fascism, or "progress and reaction" as Eric Hobsbawm described it. This leads some to see the Allies' victory as the straightforward triumph of democracy and ushering in American prosperity for all. For example, the Confederation of German Trade Unions has suggested, without any hint of irony, that workers today should get behind the idea of "a new Marshall plan" as the basis for a "progressive strategy" for the crisis-ridden European Union.
- The Warsaw rising
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
- What is Lost in Poles' Memories
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Trukhachev reflects on Polish attempts to re-write the history of the Second World War.
- When the Snow Comes, They Will Take You Away
Resource Type: Book
- Wilfrid Laurier University
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Working Class Experience
Rethinking the History of Canadian Labour, 1800-1991
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
From nineteenth-century tavern life to late twentieth-century cinema, from rough canallers and the first stirrings of craft unionism to contemporary public-sector strikes, this books provides a sweeping interpretive study of the history of the Canadian working class since 1800.
- The World Without Us
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
A thought experiment to see what would happen to the planet if human beings simply disappeared.
- A Writer at War
Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
When Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, Vasily Grossman became a special correspondent for the Red Star, the Soviet Army's newspaper, and reported from the front lines of the war. A Writer at War depicts in vivid detail the crushing conditions on the Eastern Front, and the lives and deaths of soliders and civilians alike. Beevor and Vinogradova have taken Grossman's notebooks and fashioned them into a gripping narrative.
- A Writer at War
A Sovet Journalist with the Red Army, 1941 - 1945
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
War reporting by Vasily Grossman, a correspondent for the Red Army, the Soviet Army's newspaper.
- Year 501
The Conquest Continues
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
An examination of the U.S. role in the world placed in the long historical perspective of the 500 years that followed the voyages of Columbus.
- Yugoslav Partisans
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A Communist-led World War II resistance movement engaged in the fight against Axis forces and their collaborators in Yugoslavia from 1941-1945.
- Zwiazek Organizacji Wojskowej
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
An underground resistance organization formed by Witold Pilecki at Auschwitz concentration camp in 1940.
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