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Showing 1 to 20 of 105 for “"World War Two"”.
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Remembering and Recollecting World War Two: South African Perspectives
… some of the memories and recollections of World War Two in South Africa today. It aims to address an absence of work done on South Africa in relation to World War Two, memory and commemoration. This thesis is as much about the diverse processes of remembrance and recollection as it is about …
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Earhart County: The Making Of A World War Two Wondertale
… was to create a book which would bring the world of World War Two aviation to a mainstream audience, utilising the magic and durability of folklore to mythologize the incredible feats of Churchill’s finest generation. Whilst entertaining its audience, it aims at giving them a glimpse at the …
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The Role of Irish Military Intelligence during World War Two
… of Irish Military Intelligence (G2), during World War Two. In doing so it is hoped that the reader shall grasp something of the role of G2 during the years 1939-45, and evaluate their performance as an intelligence and security agency
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Wolves Without Teeth: The German Torpedo Crisis in World War Two
… period of the first few years during the Second World War during which time the German U-boat arm experienced catastrophic technical malfunctions with their torpedoes. These malfunctions robbed the Germans of tremendous success during the most critical period of the Second World War - the opening …
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BRITISH WORLD WAR TWO FILMS 1945-65: CATHARSIS OR NATIONAL REGENERATION?
Major differences in British Second World War films produced in wartime 1939-45 (idealising the 'People's War') and post-war versions produced between 1945-65 (promoting the return of elite masculinity) suggest a degree of cultural re-conditioning concerning the memory of war, by Britain's …
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'Toast and Torpedoes': World War Two Naval Warfare on Film 1939-1960
… contribution to the understanding of how naval warfare in World War Two was presented in popular British cinema between 1939 and 1960. The study examines the distinctive nature of naval war films, notable for the way in which both the warlike and domestic are mixed, and uses this as the …
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New Conflict, Old Conundrum: Venereal Disease Control and Education in World War Two Canada
… venereal disease control and education in Second World War Canada. By examining the methods and materials used in anti-venereal disease campaigns, I show that these public health drives employed a “moral-medical” model of care and education which stressed that increasingly modern treatment …
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Resisting captivity: An analysis of the New Zealand POW experience during World War Two
During World War Two more than 9,000 New Zealand servicemen were captured and imprisoned. Many of these men were confronted by the challenges of disempowerment and a prolonged imprisonment. However, histories of captivity have tended to portray the prisoner-of-war (POW) experience as a continual …
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Fractured Front: Gender, Authenticity, and the Remaking of the American Left after World War Two
… inherently gendered effect of the Cold War. In the immediate aftermath of World War Two, as the emerging Cold War empowered a long&ndashstanding anti&ndashcommunist strain in U.S. political culture, many artists and intellectuals feared the massification of human beings communism …
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The Importance of the Ardennes Offensive in the History of World War Two and the Post-War World
… as the Battle of the Bulge - in the history of World War Two and the Post-War world. The study will focus on how and why the engagement between the Allies and the Wehrmacht was so crucial and what makes it be placed among other tide-turning battles such as Stalingrad, Kursk, Midway, or …
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Narratives of a Fallen Army: Japanese Veterans' Concepts of Defeat and War Crimes Responsibility in World War Two
… experienced different types of defeat in World War Two (WWII) both during and after the war, including loss in battles and war crimes trials. This dissertation analyses Japanese veterans’ postwar narratives in relation to the concepts of defeat and addresses the issue of war crimes …
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Earning their wings: accidents and fatalities in the United States Army Air Forces during flight training in World War Two
… analyzes the effect of the Army Air Forces’ wartime experience on the selection and training of aviation cadets and the steps taken by the Army Air Forces to reduce the number of accidents and fatalities. Over the course of the war, the US Army Air Forces suffered over 54,000 accidents in the …
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Dem Schwerte Muss Der Pflug Folgen: Űber-Peasants and National Socialist Settlements in the Occupied Eastern Territories during World War Two
… in the nineteenth century had brought forward a variety of conflicting ideas when it came to the agrarian community. One of them was the agrarian romantic movement led by Adam Műller, who feared the loss of the traditional German peasant. Műller influenced Reichdeutsche Richard Walther …
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A transnational environmental idea: reception, interpretation and employment of US Dust Bowl imagery in World War Two and post-war Australia
… were woven through Australian narratives of the World War Two and early post-war period. The study recovers and analyzes the sound, textual and visual aspects of print, broadcast and film media imagery of the period to ask what cultural myths and political forces combined to empower the …
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