Dissertations / Theses: '1939-1945 War and society'

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Spear, Jonathan A. "Embedded : the Australian Red Cross in the Second World War /." Connect to thesis, 2007. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/1935.

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Becker, Patti Clayton. "Books and libraries in American society during World War II : weapons in the war of ideas /." New York : Routledge, 2005. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40149147k.

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Texte remanié de: Doctoral dissertation--Madison (Wis.)--University of Wisconsin, 2002. Titre de soutenance : Up the hill of opportunity: American public libraries and ALA during World War II.
Bibliogr. p. 267-281. Notes bibliogr. p. 219-266.

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Sarkar, Abhijit. "Beyond famines : wartime state, society, and politicization of food in colonial India, 1939-1945." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d9ed9566-5baa-42b0-83a7-3d1f6909cf59.

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This thesis explores the origin of one of the most engrossing concerns of the post-colonial Indian state, that is, its extensive, intricate, and expensive feeding arrangements for the civilians. It tracks the colonial origin of the post-colonial welfare state, of which state-management of food is one of the most publicized manifestations. This thesis examines the intervention of the late colonial British state in food procurement and distribution in India during the Second World War, and various forms of such intervention, such as the introduction of food rationing and food austerity laws. It argues that the war necessitated actions on the part of the colonial state to secure food supplies to a vastly expanded British Indian Army, to the foreign Allied troops stationed in India, and to the workers employed in war-industries. The thesis brings forth the constitutional and political predicaments that deprived the colonial central government's food administration of success. It further reveals how the bitter bargaining about food imports into India between the Government of India and the War Cabinet in Britain hampered the state efforts to tackle the food crisis. By discussing the religious and cultural codes vis-à-vis food consumption that influenced government food policies, this thesis has situated food in the historiography of consumption in colonial India. In addition to adopting a political approach to study food, it has also applied sociological treatment, particularly while dealing with how the wartime scarcity, and consequent austerity laws, forced people to accept novel consumption cultures. It also contributes to the historiography of 'everyday state'. Through its wartime intervention in everyday food affairs, the colonial state that had been distant and abstract in the perception of most common households, suddenly became a reality to be dealt with in everyday life within the domestic site. Thus, the macro state penetrated micro levels of existence. The colonial state now even developed elaborate food surveillance to gather intelligence about violation of food laws. This thesis unravels the responses of some of the political and religious organizations to state intervention in quotidian food consumption. Following in this vein, through a study of the political use of famine-relief in wartime Bengal, it introduces a new site to the study of communal politics in India, namely, propagation of Hindu communal politics through distribution of food by the Hindu Mahasabha party. Further, it demonstrates how the Muslim League government's failure to prevent the Great Bengal Famine of 1943-44 was politically used by the Mahasabha to oppose the League's emerging demand for the creation of Pakistan.

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Willems, Bastiaan Pieter Valentijn. "Violence in defeat : the Wehrmacht and late-War society in East Prussia, 1944-1945." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/25939.

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During the battles for East Prussia in the final year of the Second World War, the ruthless conduct of German troops resulted in vast material and personal damage. By focusing on the besieged ‘Festung Königsberg’ in the spring of 1945, this dissertation argues that the violence that transpired in Germany in 1945 can only be understood by devoting sustained attention to local actors and factors. By combining social history and military history approaches, the research restores agency to the German army, the Wehrmacht, as an active participant in the radicalisation of the German home front. This case study demonstrates that due to the fragmentation of Germany, the decisions and orders of Wehrmacht commanders had a disproportionately large impact at a local level. The radical nature of these decisions was the direct result of the commanders’ violent experiences during the preceding years, while the barbarised mindset of the rank-and-file encouraged the rigorous enforcement of military authority. The dissertation’s findings contribute to four themes within the historiography of the Second World War. First, it contributes to the recent debate surrounding the German Volksgemeinschaft by drawing attention to the limits of loyalty to the regime, and the actors and events that prompted this fidelity to shift. Secondly, by analysing a large number of unused archival sources, it provides the first in-depth urban history of everyday life in Königsberg during its 1945 siege. Thirdly, it challenges the conventional historiographical view in which fanatical Party officials were the main perpetrators of late-war violence by emphasising the significance of the Wehrmacht as a key actor. Even though large numbers of German troops operated in close proximity to German civilians, their conduct has hardly been considered as an explanation of the events of 1945. Lastly, this dissertation combines and transcends the different perspectives on German domestic and martial law, suggesting that the two were ever more closely intertwined as the war progressed, resulting in a shift of behavioural patterns. The focus on Königsberg and its immediate surroundings has allowed for a re-examination of late-war society, being the first to focus attention on the triadic relationship of Wehrmacht, Party, and civilian population.

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鄧煇澄 and Fai-ching Tang. "Awareness of war towards the Japanese invasion in Hong Kong society during the period 1937-1941." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2009. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B43209129.

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Farmer, John. "The deepest shelter in town : from the ruins to the bunker." Thesis, Royal College of Art, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.602324.

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Owens, Kevin John. "The School and Society: Secondary School Social Studies Education from 1945-1970." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1368290377.

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Cooper, Frederick George. "Health, balance, and women's 'dual role' in Britain, 1945-1963." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/33216.

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This thesis examines the role and currency of medical and psychological languages and anxieties in discussions of women’s work, housework, marriage and motherhood in Britain between 1945 and 1963. More specifically, it traces the emergence of the ‘dual role’, a life balanced between work and home, as the product of competing and colliding concerns over childhood and adult illness. Arguing for a granular and contingent approach to historical knowledge and experience, it analyses a series of conversations and transformations, each of which contributed to shifts in ideals of appropriate, ethical, and healthy behaviour. In moving beyond existing histories of women, work, and home, this thesis takes a complex look at the medical politics of post-war feminism and counter-feminism. It identifies and explores important sites of contestation and collision, in which new orthodoxies and compromises were formed. Through close review of disregarded post-war literatures on motherhood, male health, housework, fatigue, loneliness, selfhood, ageing, the therapeutics and prophylaxis of productivity, overstrain, caring, morbidity, psychological conflict, and the relationship between medicine and political transformation, this thesis provides a methodical and nuanced account of the ideas and experiences which framed and bounded changing patterns of combination between work and home. It offers scholars of women’s history a more sophisticated understanding of the diversity and importance of knowledge about the mind and body – as well as the thoughts, words and actions of medical professionals – in shaping historical processes which have been widely described but insufficiently understood. For historians of medicine, it explores the political context and consequences of discourses on health, using questions over work, domesticity, marriage and motherhood to interrogate the collaborative and antagonistic convergences between feminist activism, curative therapy, and public health.

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Kirkpatrick, Ann. ""Playthings of a Historical Process": Prostitution in Spanish Society from the Restoration to the Civil War (1874-1939)." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/370.

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Spain underwent a series of tumultuous social and political changes in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Prostitute women directly experienced these changes as fluctuations in their social and legal status within Spanish society. The years spanning from 1874 to 1931 are known as the Restoration, when the Bourbon monarchy was reinstalled under King Alfonso XII (1857-1885) after the crumbling of the First Spanish Republic (1873-1874). During this time, Spain experienced a period of growing nationalism and urbanization, and prostitution began to be interpreted as a threat to the nation in terms of public health and decency. Between 1923 and 1930, Spain was under the royally-sponsored military dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera (1870-1930). Primo de Rivera stifled much of the public discussion around the problem of prostitution. Spain later returned briefly to a Republican mode of government in 1931, and the Second Republic turned a portion of its divided attention to the reform of prostitution laws. The chaos of the Spanish Civil War between 1936 and 1939 disrupted these Republican reforms but provided an opportunity for radical groups, including Mujeres Libres, to campaign against prostitution in new and innovative ways.

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Fagot, Maude. "Kommunikation in Kriegsgesellschaften am Beispiel der Evakuierung der deutsch-französischen Grenzregion (1939/40)." Thesis, Paris 4, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA040155.

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Alors même que la France et la Grande-Bretagne s’apprêtent à déclarer la guerre à l’Allemagne, plus d’un million de personnes sont évacuées de la frontière franco-allemande. Encadrés de part et d’autre de la frontière par les autorités civiles et militaires, les Alsaciens, Lorrains, Badois et Sarrois, vivant entre les lignes défensives (ligne Maginot, Ligne Siegfried) et la frontière, sont transportés vers l’intérieur de leur pays respectifs. Ces mesures d’évacuation du début de la Seconde Guerre mondiale constituent pour les deux sociétés, après la mobilisation des hommes en âge de se battre, la seconde grande mesure de guerre faisant passer ces deux sociétés civiles à l’état de sociétés en guerre. Cette transformation a non seulement des conséquences au niveau social, politique et économique, mais également des effets au niveau communicationnel, ce qui constitue l’objet de cette thèse. Il s’agit, à travers le phénomène de l’évacuation, de faire ressortir les mécanismes de communication des États au niveau de leur propagande nationale, de faire apparaître les interactions et méthodes de communication entre les autorités locales et les évacués et enfin d’éclairer les systèmes de communication au sein des groupes des évacués à travers l’analyse des rumeurs de pillages des zones évacuées. Cette approche permet de retracer une histoire de la communication dans les sociétés en guerre française et allemande dans laquelle fusionnent les perspectives ascendante et descendante mais également comparative et transnationale. Ainsi, la communication des sociétés en guerre apparaît comme le fruit de négociations et d’interactions en constante évolution entre acteurs aux intérêts différents. De cette étude ressortent également les limites d’influence des deux États au sein de leur population, qu’il s’agisse d’un État républicain démocratique telle la Troisième République ou bien d’un État dictatorial aux ambitions totalitaires comme le fût le « Troisième Reich »
While France and Great-Britain were about to declare war on Germany, more than one million persons were evacuated from the Franco-German Border. Led on both side of the border by civilian and military authorities, the Alsatians, Lorrainers, Badners and Saarlanders living between the defence lines (Maginot-Line, Siegfried Line) were transported inside their own country. These evacuations measures formed – after the mobilization on the front of the men in-age to fight – the second important measure of war, which turned these civil societies into war societies. This transformation has not only consequences on political, economic and social level, but also on communication, which is the topic of this doctoral thesis. The evacuations phenomena allow us to shed light on state propaganda on a national and international level, to reveal the communication methods and interactions between the local authorities and the evacuees and finally to show the communications systems within groups of evacuees by analysing rumours on pillages of the evacuated region. This approach highlights a history of communication in both French and German war society based on top-down and bottom-up perspectives and on comparative and transnational analyses. Communication in war society appears as the fruit of negotiations and interactions in constant evolution between agents with different interests. This study emphasized the limits of the state’s influence over the population, both in a republican democratic state as the French Third Republic and in a dictatorial state with totalitarian ambitions such as the “Third Reich”

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Xu, Yan. "War Heroes: Constructing the Soldier and the State in Modern China, 1924-1945." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1357130680.

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Szczepanska, Kamila. "The politics of war memory in Japan 1990-2010 : progressive civil society groups and contestation of memory of the Asia-Pacific War (1931-1945)." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2012. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/2169/.

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Schilling, René. ""Kriegshelden" : Deutungsmuster heroischer Männlichkeit in Deutschland 1813-1945 /." Paderborn : Schöningh, 2002. http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0e1t9-aa.

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Spurling, Kathryn Lesley History Australian Defence Force Academy UNSW. "The Women's Royal Australian Naval Service : a study in discrimination 1939-1960." Awarded by:University of New South Wales - Australian Defence Force Academy. History, 1988. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/38740.

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Throughout history women have shown a willingness to participate actively in the defence of their country, home, and beliefs, and gave lie to the assertion that they were intrinsically less able than men when it came to achieving the ends through violent means. As Western civilization progressed however, women became restricted to ???womanly??? duties and separated from the official military sphere. The power to make war became exclusively men???s. In Australia immigration patterns, geographic features, and a particular historical period combined to create a virulently male dominated society. This was particularly apparent in the armed services. Australia did not allow women to enlist in its defence forces until 1941, a time of unprecedented national peril. Female volunteers were the final option. The Women???s Services were disbanded following World War II and not re-established until the armed forces again could not fulfil their defence commitment. The Royal Australian navy was the last service to permit a female branch, and between 1942 and 1960 the development of the Women???s Royal Australian Naval Service was inhibited by both societal values and attitudes and the traditions and priorities of the Navy.

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Tang, Fai-ching. "Awareness of war towards the Japanese invasion in Hong Kong society during the period 1937-1941 1937 zhi 1941 jian Xianggang she hui dui Riben qin lüe de zhan zheng yi shi /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2009. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B43209129.

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Georges, Raphaël. "Les soldats alsaciens-lorrains de la Grande Guerre dans la société française (1918-1939)." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018STRAG015.

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Cette thèse considère la place réservée aux soldats alsaciens-lorrains de la Grande Guerre dans la société française d’après-guerre, jusqu’à la fin des années 1930. En effet, en raison de l’histoire de leur province, annexée depuis 1871 à l’Empire allemand, ceux-ci sont appelés à servir dans les rangs de l’armée allemande tout au long du conflit. Or, pour l’essentiel, ils deviennent Français au lendemain de la guerre. Dans ce nouveau cadre national, la qualité d’anciens soldats allemands détermine pour beaucoup leur retour à la vie civile, et plus largement leur insertion sociale. Nous proposons donc d’interroger les implications non seulement concrètes, mais aussi symboliques et mémorielles qui caractérisent ce passé militaire hors norme dans le champ de la société française de l’entre-deux-guerres. Pour cela, nous analysons dans un premier temps le processus de retour et d’accueil des soldats, les modalités d’assistance et d’accompagnement en vue de leur réinsertion sociale, notamment pour les mutilés de guerre, ainsi que les recompositions sociales provoquées par leur expérience de guerre. Dans un second temps, nous tentons d’identifier les représentations véhiculées à leur sujet, afin de comprendre les enjeux mémoriels et sociaux qu’elles comportent et qui déterminent leur place dans la société
This thesis examines the place reserved for Alsatian and Lorrainer soldiers of the Great War in postwar French society, from 1918 until the end of the 1930s. It is indeed because of the history of their province – annexed since 1871 to the German Empire – that they are called to serve as German soldiers throughout the conflict. Yet most of them become French citizens in the aftermath of the war. In this new national setting, it is their status as former German soldiers that largely determines their return to civilian life and, to a greater extent, their social integration. We thus intend to question the practical, symbolic and memory implications of this atypical military past, in the field of French society during the interwar years. To this purpose, we firstly analyze the process of return and reception of the soldiers, the terms and conditions of assistance and support with the aim of their social reintegration – particularly for the disabled veterans – as well as the social reorganizations caused by their war experience. Secondly, we try to identify the representations that were circulated and they were subjected to, so as to understand the memory and social issues at stake that determine their place in society

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Cruz, Luiz Antônio Pinto. ""A guerra já chegou entre nós"!: o cotidiano de Aracaju durante a guerra submarina (1942-1945)." Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, 2012. http://repositorio.ufba.br/ri/handle/ri/13310.

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As novas gerações brasileiras se acostumaram a pensar a Segunda Guerra Mundial como uma “realidade distante” de suas fronteiras, de suas vidas e de suas histórias. Elas conhecem bem as batalhas sangrentas travadas entre eixistas e aliados na Europa, África, Ásia e Oceania, mas desconhecem as suas histórias socionavais no tempo da Batalha do Atlântico. Pesquisadores definiram o papel do Brasil no maior conflito global como sendo uma “participação simbólica”, “uma beligerância apenas nominal”, “uma sombra da guerra”, enfim, “uma guerra sem guerra”. No entanto, algumas realidades costeiras evidenciam que os brasileiros enfrentaram sim, os ardores da guerra em seu mar territorial e foram obrigadas a seguir as orientações de segurança antissubmarinas. Sob o prisma da micro-história, esta pesquisa analisou um corpus documental variado (jornais sergipanos, documentos oficiais, iconografia, acervos particulares, memorialistas, dentre outros), dialogou com a produção historiográfica nacional e avaliou a memória coletiva dos aracajuanos para perceber como os sucessivos ataques dos U-boots repercutiram no cotidiano da cidade de Aracaju nos anos de 1942 e 1943. A história dos torpedeamentos dos navios mercantes gerou centenas de mortos, dezenas de sobreviventes traumatizados, população costeira amedrontada e um clima de insegurança generalizado, configurando assim, o estado de beligerância nas águas territoriais do Brasil, e mais tarde, a declaração varguista de guerra à Alemanha e à Itália. Portanto, esta pesquisa histórica analisou a Guerra Submarina na costa de Sergipe, centralizando suas análises para o cotidiano dos aracajuanos e suas respostas aos reveses navais, no período de 1942 a 1945. The new Brazilian generations got used to thinking of World War II as a “distant reality”, far from their frontiers, their lives and their histories. They know well the bloody battles between the Axis and the Allies in Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania, but do not know the social-naval histories during the Battle of the Atlantic. Researchers have defined the role of Brazil in the biggest world conflict has having “symbolical participation”, “a merely nominal belligerence”, “a shadow of the war”, ultimately, “a war without war”. Nevertheless, some coastal realities evince the fact that Brazilian did face the flames of the war in their territorial sea and were forced to follow anti-submarine safety directions. Under the view of micro-history, this study analyzed a varied documental corpus (newspapers from Sergipe, official documents, iconography, private collections, memorialists, among others), conversed with the national historiographical production and evaluated the collective memory of people from Aracaju, in order to perceive how the successive attacks of U-boots affected Aracaju daily life in 1942 and 1943. The history of merchant vessels torpedoing generated hundreds of deaths, dozes of traumatized survivors, fearful coastal inhabitants and an environment of generalized insecurity. This therefore configured the belligerence state in Brazilian territorial waters, and, later, the declaration (by then Brazilian president Getúlio Vargas) of war against Germany and Italy. Therefore, this historical research has analyzed the Submarine War on Sergipe coast, focusing its analysis on the daily life of Aracaju inhabitants and their responses to the naval setbacks in the period between 1942 and 1945.
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Krutko, Lauren K. "Self, Society and the Second World War. The Negotiation of Self on the Home Front by Diarist and Keighley Schoolmaster Kenneth Preston 1941-1945." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/14631.

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This study examines the interaction of the Second World War with the selfhood of Kenneth Preston, a Keighley schoolmaster, using primarily the exceptionally rich content of Preston’s Diary, maintained 1941-1945. In tracing Preston’s home front experience, attention is given to the ways in which the war interacted with the individual’s own self and social conceptions, as well as ways in which subjective experiences and perceptions translated into objective realities, such as in Preston’s participation in the war effort. Illuminating the personal dimensions of the war experience enabled a broad range of meanings and “webs of significance” to emerge, allowing for examination of the interplay between the conflict and understandings of class, community, gender, citizenship, social mores, and aspects of social change during the conflict. Preston’s understandings of himself and of society are intriguing contributions to the discussion surrounding active wartime citizenship, and further historical awareness of the meanings and understandings held within the British population during the era of the Second World War. In particular, the prestige the war offered to modernistic notions of science and technical intelligence is shown to have held a central place in the war experience of this particular individual and in his perception of the rise of the welfare state. With its focus on selfhood, the study is distinguished from arguments grounded in analysis of cultural products from the era; it also contributes to understandings of the causes and implications of social change, as well as the war’s personal impact on the male civilian.

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Chang, Lily. "Contested childhoods : law and social deviance in wartime China, 1937-1945." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:ac4d436e-63a4-42ce-b2df-f3edb1c556f3.

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“Contested Childhoods” links together three major areas of historical inquiry: war and criminality, law and social change, and the law as it relates to children, in the first half of twentieth-century China. The founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949 has eclipsed the historical significance of Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist Government and the importance of its role during the wartime period. This study examines how the outbreak of China’s War of Resistance against Japan (1937-1945) served as a crucial catalyst to the construction of ideas of criminality and its relation to children during the wartime period. It examines the different measures by which Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist Government (1928-1949) attempted to handle the rise in levels of criminality involving juveniles. The study analyses how an increase in criminality during the wartime period challenged how ideas on and about children and childhood were in understood within Chinese society. Moreover, it argues that wartime conditions served as a crucial catalyst prompted the construction of a new judicial and legal framework that was aimed at delineating the boundaries between childhood and adulthood during this period.

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Abrahams, Paul Richard Adolphe. "Haute-Savoie at war, 1939-1945." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1992. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/251528.

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Shepard, Steven B. "ABDA : unsuccessful band of brothers /." Fort Leavenworth, KS: U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, 2003. http://cgsc.cdmhost.com/u?/p4013coll2,115.

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Choi, Cho-hong. "Hong Kong in the context of the Pacific War : an American perspective /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B20906845.

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Jackson, Ashley. "Botswana 1939-1945 : an African country at war /." Oxford : Clarendon press, 1999. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37112011v.

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Bennet, Victor Kenneth. "Public opinion and propaganda in national socialist Germany during the war against the Soviet Union /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10371.

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O'Sullivan, Brian. "Away All Boats: A Study of the evolution and development of amphibious warfare in the Pacific War." Thesis, University of Canterbury. History, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1641.

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Amphibious operations are a topic central to the history of World War Two in the Pacific Theatre. The majority of research on this topic has been centred on the impact of American experiences and successes attributed to the development and evolution of amphibious warfare. The contributions of the United Kingdom and Japan to the development of amphibious warfare have been either overlooked or marginalized. This thesis will investigate the amphibious activities of all three powers both during and before the Pacific War, and seek to explain the importance of each nation's contribution to amphibious warfare. In addition, the thesis will demonstrate how in its highest forms amphibious operations became a fully fledged system of global force projection. The thesis will explain how each of these powers interpreted the legacy of the failure of the 1915 Gallipoli campaign both in the context of their own wartime experiences, and in their respective strategic worldviews. This interpretation is central to how each power prepared for amphibious operations in the next war. The importance of the geography of the Pacific Ocean to the evolution and development of amphibious warfare will be discussed, as will the advances in technology that allowed the creation of logistical systems to support these operations.

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Durflinger, Serge Marc. "City at war : the effects of the Second World War on Verdun, Québec." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ29927.pdf.

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Atwood, Anthony. "A State of War: Florida from 1939 to 1945." FIU Digital Commons, 2012. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/777.

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World War II profoundly impacted Florida. The military geography of the State is essential to an understanding the war. The geostrategic concerns of place and space determined that Florida would become a statewide military base. Florida’s attributes of place such as climate and topography determined its use as a military academy hosting over two million soldiers, nearly 15 percent of the GI Army, the largest force theUS ever raised. One-in-eight Floridians went into uniform. Equally,Florida’s space on the planet made it central for both defensive and offensive strategies. The Second World War was a war of movement, and Florida was a major jump off point forUSforce projection world-wide, especially of air power. Florida’s demography facilitated its use as a base camp for the assembly and engagement of this military power. In 1940, less than two percent of the US population lived in Florida, a quiet, barely populated backwater of the United States.[1] But owing to its critical place and space, over the next few years it became a 65,000 square mile training ground, supply dump, and embarkation site vital to the US war effort. Because of its place astride some of the most important sea lanes in the Atlantic World,Florida was the scene of one of the few Western Hemisphere battles of the war. The militarization ofFloridabegan long before Pearl Harbor. The pre-war buildup conformed to theUSstrategy of the war. The strategy of theUS was then (and remains today) one of forward defense: harden the frontier, then take the battle to the enemy, rather than fight them inNorth America. The policy of “Europe First,” focused the main US war effort on the defeat of Hitler’sGermany, evaluated to be the most dangerous enemy. In Florida were established the military forces requiring the longest time to develop, and most needed to defeat the Axis. Those were a naval aviation force for sea-borne hostilities, a heavy bombing force for reducing enemy industrial states, and an aerial logistics train for overseas supply of expeditionary campaigns. The unique Florida coastline made possible the seaborne invasion training demanded for USvictory. The civilian population was employed assembling mass-produced first-generation container ships, while Floridahosted casualties, Prisoners-of-War, and transient personnel moving between the Atlantic and Pacific. By the end of hostilities and the lifting of Unlimited Emergency, officially on December 31, 1946, Floridahad become a transportation nexus. Florida accommodated a return of demobilized soldiers, a migration of displaced persons, and evolved into a modern veterans’ colonia. It was instrumental in fashioning the modern US military, while remaining a center of the active National Defense establishment. Those are the themes of this work. [1] US Census of Florida 1940. Table 4 – Race, By Nativity and Sex, For the State. 14.

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Zeitz, Lynette D. "No half-hearted soldiers : the Japanese Army's experience of defeat in the South West Pacific, 1942-45 /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 1992. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARM/09armz48.pdf.

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Ross, Cynthia. "Before the blaze, the spark : the nature of armed resistance and its motivations in World War II." Online access for everyone, 2006. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Spring2006/c%5Fross%5F050406.pdf.

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Gartzonikas, Panagiotis. "Amphibious and special operations in the Aegean Sea 1943-1945 : operational effectiveness and strategic implications." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2003. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion-image/03Dec%5FGartzonikas.pdf.

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Thesis (M.A. in National Security Affairs and M.S. in Defense Analysis)--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2003.
Thesis advisor(s): Douglas Porch, David Tucker. Includes bibliographical references (p. 59-61). Also available online.

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Burton, Kathleen M. "The Christian resistance in France during the Second World War : its uniqueness and obscurity /." View abstract, 2000. http://library.ctstateu.edu/ccsu%5Ftheses/1581.html.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Central Connecticut State University, 2000.
Thesis advisor: Marie-Claire Rohinsky. " ... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts [in Modern Languages]." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 99-101).

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Plating, John David. "Keeping China in the war the trans-Himalayan "Hump" airlift and Sino-US strategy in World War II /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1180441907.

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Jang, Hoi Sik. "Japanese imperial ideology, shifting war aims and domestic propaganda during the Pacific War of 1941-1945." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2007.

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Boursier, Jean-Yves. "Résistants et Résistance." Paris : Harmattan, 1997. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/38494690.html.

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Revision of papers originally presented at a conference held Jan. 11-12, 1996, Université de Paris VIII-St. Denis.
"Bibliographie chronologique des livres et brochures publiés sur le Vercors depuis 1945": p. 401-403. Includes bibliographical references.

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Fahey, John. "Britain 1939-1945 the economic cost of strategic bombing /." Connect to full text, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/664.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 2004.
Title from title screen (viewed 6 May 2008). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Dept. of History, Faculty of Arts. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print form.

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Ryan, Kathleen M. ""When flags flew high" : propaganda, memory, and oral history for World War II female veterans /." Connect to title online (Scholars' Bank) Connect to title online (ProQuest), 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/8332.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2008.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 377-400). Also available online in Scholars' Bank; and in ProQuest, free to University of Oregon users.

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Paton-Walsh, Margaret. "Our war too : American women against the Axis /." Lawrence, Kan : University Press of Kansas, 2002. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy032/2002002976.html.

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Chapman, James. "The British at war : cinema, state and propaganda, 1939-1945 /." London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 1998. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37100814d.

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Crowcroft, Robert Gerard. "The Labour Party and the impact of war, 1939-1945." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2007. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/204/.

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This thesis examines the internal politics of the Labour party during the Second World War. There are two primary elements to the study: on the one hand, an analysis of the techniques of party management, and, on the other, examination of the personal conflicts and rivalries which dominated Labour's war. The thesis considers the way in which the party's leadership group performed a delicate balancing act to prepare the ground for entry into office in an eventual coalition during the 'phoney' war of September 1939 to May 1940, continually strengthening their bargaining position while working to keep the Labour party itself subordinate to their authority and establish the primacy of their own decision making. The key figure in this was the party leader, Clement Attlee. The thesis then analyses how, once Labour entered the Churchill Coalition, its leaders again worked to preserve their strategy of membership of the government by expanding their own power and influence during five years of internal upheavals. But their course was an unpopular one, and provoked much disaffection within the party's ranks. All the while, Labour's internal politics were shaped by a series of personal conflicts and rivalries, animated by competing ambitions and enmities. The most significant was the long-running struggle for the leadership itself, between Attlee and the heir apparent, Herbert Morrison. The thesis focuses upon a wide range of individual actors, but Attlee is central: examining the way in which Attlee controlled his party, established his authority, and sought to expand his influence within government, while simultaneously struggling against his great rival Morrison, the thesis is essentially a study in the leadership of this most impenetrable, yet skilled, of politicians. Considering the language and rhetoric which the party's senior figures used to steer their course and retain the backing of their followers, as well as devoting close attention to the manoeuvre, intrigue, and pursuit of personal vendettas which impacted upon Labour politics between 1939 and 1945, the thesis argues that power-political interpretations of the period are more useful than explanations which look to ideological conflict. It also questions how far sociological change, in particular national 'emergency' and wartime radicalisation, really altered the attitudes of the British political elite.

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Ong, Chit Chung. "Operation Matador : Britain's war plans against the Japanese, 1918-1941 /." Singapore : Times academic press, 1997. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37034998z.

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Choi, Cho-hong, and 蔡祖康. "Hong Kong in the context of the Pacific War: an American perspective." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31220630.

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Panthaki, Neville. "The Reichsmark & the ruble a study of two totalitarian systems and their economies in conflict /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape17/PQDD_0027/MQ33502.pdf.

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Webb, T. I. "With animals at war : human-animal relations and the British war effort, 1939-1945." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2018. http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3020800/.

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Focusing on case studies concerning food production and fighting, this thesis offers the first in-depth account of how the British state enrolled and utilised a diverse range of animals for the war effort. Pigs converted kitchen waste into meat; dairy cattle produced milk for the health of the nation; pigeons carried messages for the British military that helped save the lives of military personnel and provided intelligence from occupied Europe; meanwhile mules carried food, ammunition and human bodies, and provided a source of comfort and intimacy for military personnel within various theatres of war. These animals were represented at the time, to greater or lesser extents, as symbols of the war effort. Moreover, civilians and military personnel used them to forge and reaffirm their wartime identities. The enrolment of these animals also had divergent legacies, shaping human-animal relationships into the post-war years. To reveal the cultural and material impact of war on these particular human-animal relationships, this thesis draws on a diverse source base, including governmental and archival sources, military records, newspapers and journals, photographs, and personal testimonies. It introduces the notion of ‘effort’ and uses this concept to explore how animals were enrolled for war. This includes the state-led effort to work out what animals were capable of and what they could contribute towards the war. It also shows how this was a physical and imaginative effort, as it required animals to be studied, experimented on, interacted with, and harnessed. Furthermore, it demonstrates how this was a collective effort, built on the simultaneous enrolment of humans to work with animals and the interactions between various historical actors. Through such an approach, it recognises the significant role animals played within the British war effort and offers new stories about humans at war. In particular, it extends wider historiographical debates concerning the war’s impact on gender, citizenship and emotion. It also contributes to debates regarding the ‘People’s War.’ It explores human-animal relationships to reveal social cohesion and dissension in wartime Britain along state-individual, military-civilian, urban-rural, class and gendered lines. More widely, it contributes to the social, cultural and environmental histories of Britain during the Second World War. Overall, it argues that the Second World War in Britain needs to be reconsidered as a human-animal effort.

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Byers, Catherine P. "Reporting wartime Germany : perceptions of American journalists in Berlin, 1939-1941." Virtual Press, 1986. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/478643.

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"Reporting Wartime Germany" is a study of the memoirs, diaries, and other works of American journalists who were in Berlin during the early wartime years, 1939-1941. It analyzes their perceptions of the changes which occurred during that important period. Manipulation of politics and political power is discussed, along with growth of resistance to the regime, and the apparent inability of the regime to negotiate with foreigners in good faith. The role of newspapers, periodicals, radio and the motion picture industry as media of propaganda is studied; the system of education, control of religion, and attempts to regulate artistic endeavors are surveyed. Particular attention is paid to the use of literature and art as means of directing the minds of the Berliners. Various forms of culture, including opera and the theater, are analyzed in terms of their importance as a"-form of escape for the Berliners. Other types of entertainment, such as nightclubs, restaurants, and vaudeville, along with spectator sports, are also included. Analysis is offered concerning the immediate loss of such "luxuries" as adequate transportation, liquor, coffee and tea, and cigarettes, the shortage of housing and the rationing of such staples as food and clothing, and the impact these changes in lifestyle had on the Berliners. The gradual change in attitude perceived by the Americans, from acceptance of conditions to fear that the war might be lost, is described. Because of the need to verify the often highly subjective reports of the journalists, there are extensive notes which include references to accounts by others who were in Berlin, either contemporaneously or earlier or later than the first wartime years, and also to significant secondary works. Thus this study presents a broad overview of Berlin during the early wartime years, as seen by foreigners with many different perspectives. The similarities and differences in their perceptions are noted. The discrepancies are stressed, with verifying sources for different viewpoints included in the notes. The conclusion drawn is that the real changes perceived by the Americans occurred in 1933, when the Nazis came to power, and after the summer of 1941 following the beginning of the Russian campaign. More importantly, the study underlines the importance of using and carefully comparing multiple sources for any type of historical inquiry. The study underscores how well-meaning and supposedly objective observers of the same scene can often differ significantly in their perceptions, interpretation, and reporting of specificevents and major trends.

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Lowery, Bridgett O'Connell. "The Home front in the home : women's roles in Wilmington, North Carolina, 1941-1945 /." Electronic version (PDF), 2003. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2003/loweryb/bridgettlowery.html.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Wilmington, 2003.
"Women interviewed ... Mary Bellamy, Hannah Block, Cornelia Campbell, Sallye Crawford, Estelle Owens Edwards, Eleanor Fick, Lethia Hankins, Aline Hartis, Glenn Higgins, Manette M intz, Catherine Stribling, Caroline Swails, Clara Welker, and Evalina Williams" ... p. v. Includes bibliographical references (leaves : [90]-94).

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Bingle, Jean C. "Labor for bread the exploitation of Polish labor in the Soviet Union during World War II /." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 1999. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=630.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--West Virginia University, 1999.
Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains iv, 242 p. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-242).

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Johnston-White, Iain Edward. "The role of the dominions in British victory, 1939-1945." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2014. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/283960.

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Lam, Yuk-chu Tina. "Witnessing the War : museum at Stanley Military Cemetery /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25950022.

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Valade, Julie. "Leclerc and his allies (1940-1945)." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2014. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.708291.

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Burgess, James Reginald. "Vanishing voices the impact of life behind the barbed wire on World War II prisoners of war /." Click here to access dissertation, 2008. http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/archive/fall2008/james_r_burgess/Burgess_James_R_200808_edd.pdf.

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Thesis (Ed.D.)--Georgia Southern University, 2008.
"A dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Georgia Southern University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Education." Directed by John A. Weaver. ETD. Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-281)

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