The Beacon at Alexandria

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John Grenier

This book explores the evolution of American war, showing how the first war waged against Indian noncombatant populations and their agricultural resources became the standard method of war employed by early Americans and which ultimately defined their military heritage. The bloodthirsty American conquest of Indian communities east of the Mississippi River helps demonstrate how early Americans embraced warfare shaped by extravagant violence and focused on conquest. Grenier provides a major revision in understanding the place of warfare directed on noncombatants in the American military tradition, and his conclusions are relevant to understand US 'special operations' in the War on Terror.

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Manfred Gailus

"Woran glaubten die 65 Millionen Deutschen im Dritten Reich? Welche Rolle spielte die »religiöse Frage« für Bestand und Stabilität des NS-Regimes? Wie dieses Buch zeigt, war die Hitlerzeit nicht, wie bisher weithin angenommen, von Säkularisierungsprozessen oder sogar von »Gottlosigkeit« bestimmt, sondern vielmehr von multiplen religiösen Erneuerungen geprägt. Bereits das politische Umbruchsjahr 1933 war von einem tiefgehenden »religious revival« begleitet. Eine uns heute paradox anmutende Gemengelage von christlichen Traditionsbeständen und einem völkisch-politischen Neuglaube spielte eine wesentliche Rolle im Nationalsozialismus"-- Back cover.

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Glenn Willmott

"Modernity in Canada, stretching from the turn of the century to the 1950s, is a period marked by unprecedented urban and industrial growth, by urban and rural immigration from around the world, and by unique changes in power between regions, classes, races, and sexes. At the same time it is a period profoundly aware of the colonial past and its persistence, for good or ill, in the fragile economy and volatile culture of a new nation. This diverse yet distinctive Canadian modernity is explored in Unreal Country. Referring to a wide range of novels and drawing on scholarship in geography, history, and cultural studies, Glenn Willmott argues that the postcolonial rhetoric of youth coincided with - and influenced - Canadian modernism's own uncertain identity within a post-traditional, globally migrant, and interdependent society."--BOOK JACKET.

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William D. Rubinstein

One of the most widely known and seemingly well-established aspects of the Nazi Holocaust is that the Allies did little or nothing to rescue Europe's Jews, allegedly denying refuge to those fleeing Hitler's death machine, turning their backs on pleas for help, and refusing to bomb Auschwitz and other concentration camps. In The Myth of Rescue William D Rubinstein presents the highly controversial argument that all the schemes for rescuing Jews during the Holocaust were incapable of succeeding.