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Showing 1 to 20 of 514 for “"Second World War"”.
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Evacuation to Pembrokeshire during the Second World War
… of civilians to Pembrokeshire during the Second World War from Britain's urban centres. The study is based upon the examination of existing local and central government documents relating to the evacuation, local and national contemporary news reports on the same and the oral and written …
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The Afro-American and the Second World War
The second World War had a great impact on the black American population. The issues of military participation and the aims expressed in Allied propaganda were seized upon by Afro-Americans in order to press their claims for equality at home. This war on two fronts, as it was called, found …
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Memorializing Wartime Rape During the Second World War
… monuments and memorials created in the wake of World War II, the widespread rape of women, has been largely absent from this commemorative landscape. Now that rape is considered a crime of war, there have been isolated attempts to establish memorials for victims of rape. These attempts have …
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Requisitioned: American War Art of the Second World War
… the multitude of art they produced during the Second World War. The underpinnings of this thesis reside during the economic crises of the 1930s that brought about American emergency relief initiatives for artists under the direction of Holger Cahill and, by extension, Edward Bruce. For the …
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The Wehrmarcht: Soldiers and Germans During the Second World War
… also known as the Wehrmacht, fought a brutal war on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. These soldiers, under the command of military officials of the Nazi state, vowed to destroy Bolshevism and Jewish populations. By examining letters from soldiers to family members on the German …
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Rationing desire: Canadian sugar rationing in Second World War advertising
… 1939 and 1947, this thesis explores Canada’s Second World War sugar ration program. Canadian Second World War coupon rationing began with sugar, and Canadian advertisers referenced sugar rations regularly to sell a variety of consumer goods. This thesis argues that advertisers approached the …
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Medmenham: Anglo-American Photographic Intelligence in the Second World War
The role of photographic intelligence during the Second World War at Royal Air Force (RAF) Medmenham and its predecessor at Wembley is investigated in this thesis. The development from 1939 to 1945 of photographic reconnaissance and photographic interpretation is examined. The growth of the Central …
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The Development of Britain's Airborne Forces during the Second World War
… history of Britain's airborne forces during the Second World War ranges from small-scale raids in 1941 through to full divisional deployments in 1944 and 1945. British airborne warfare during the war appears to be characterised by a lack of consistency or apparently observable trends in the …
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Censorship and propaganda in Northern Ireland during the Second World War
… and censorship in Northern Ireland during the Second World War. Press control is an underexplored route through which to investigate Ulster unionism in the mid-twentieth century, as most media studies of Northern Ireland focus on the period of the troubles or inter-war period. This thesis seeks …
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Children at War: Underage Americans Illegally Fighting the Second World War
… underage Americans illegally fighting the Second World War. Nothing has been written specifically addressing this topic. The bulk of the research is drawn from oral history interviews with the veterans themselves and primary source documents, intertwined with the minimal amount of secondary …
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Children at War: Underage Americans Illegally Fighting the Second World War
… underage Americans illegally fighting the Second World War. Nothing has been written specifically addressing this topic. The bulk of the research is drawn from oral history interviews with the veterans themselves and primary source documents, intertwined with the minimal amount of secondary …
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American Civil-military Integration: Unification and the Second World War, 1939-1947
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The Belgian Rexist Movement before the Second World War: Success and Failure
… made Parliament ineffectual. Since the First World War, Belgium had been run by the Union Nationale, a coalition of the three strongest parties in the nation, the Catholics, the Socialists, and the Liberals (in the November, 1919 elections, the results in the Parliamentary House were 71 seats, …
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