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Sebastian Huebel, "Fighter, Worker, and Family Man: German-Jewish Men and Their Gendered Experiences in Nazi Germany, 1933–1941" (U Toronto Press, 2022)

95 hours 45 mins; October 23, 2023

Sparta, Athens, Ukraine, Israel: A Conversation with Paul Rahe on Proxy Wars

54 mins; October 23, 2023

Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, "American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer" (Vintage, 2006)

70 hours 35 mins; October 21, 2023

Michael A. Robinson, "Dangerous Instrument: Political Polarization and US Civil-Military Relations" (Oxford UP, 2022)

28 mins; October 17, 2023

Christopher Phillips, "Civilian Specialists at War: Britain's Transport Experts and the First World War" (U London Press, 2020)

43 mins; October 17, 2023

The Gaza War in Military-Historical Perspective

19 mins; October 16, 2023

Peter Stark, "Gallop Toward the Sun: Tecumseh and William Henry Harrison's Struggle for the Destiny of a Nation" (Random House, 2023)

80 hours 20 mins; October 14, 2023

Parks M. Coble, "The Collapse of Nationalist China: How Chiang Kai-shek Lost China's Civil War" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

56 mins; October 14, 2023

C. J. Wagevier, "Fighting for Napoleon's Army in Russia: A POW's Memoir" (Pen and Sword, 2023)

43 mins; October 12, 2023

Rory Finnin, "Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity" (U Toronto Press, 2022)

67 hours 16 mins; October 11, 2023

Evan C. Rothera, "Civil Wars and Reconstructions in the Americas: The United States, Mexico, and Argentina, 1860–1880" (LSU Press, 2022)

84 hours 27 mins; October 10, 2023

Tariq D. Khan, "The Republic Shall be Kept Clean: How Settler Colonial Violence Shaped Antileft Repression" (U Illinois Press, 2023)

51 mins; October 09, 2023

Harriet E. H. Earle, "Comics, Trauma, and the New Art of War" (UP of Mississippi, 2017)

56 mins; October 08, 2023

Harriet Murav and Gennady Estraikh, "Soviet Jews in World War II: Fighting, Witnessing, Remembering" (Academic Studies Press, 2018)

64 hours 8 mins; October 07, 2023

Robert P. Watson, "When Washington Burned: The British Invasion of the Capital and a Nation's Rise from the Ashes" (Georgetown UP, 2023)

58 mins; October 05, 2023

Nan Turner, "Clothing Goes to War: Creativity Inspired by Scarcity in World War II" (Intellect Books, 2022)

50 mins; October 05, 2023

Ole Kristian Grimnes, "Norway in the Second World War: Politics, Society and Conflict" (Bloombury, 2022)

101 hours 35 mins; October 04, 2023

Kristin Semmens, "Under the Swastika in Nazi Germany" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

69 hours 26 mins; October 03, 2023

Janet Somerville, "Yours, for Probably Always: Martha Gellhorn's Letters of Love and War 1930-1949" (Firefly Books, 2022)

51 mins; October 03, 2023

Isaac McKean Scarborough, "Moscow's Heavy Shadow: The Violent Collapse of the USSR" (Cornell UP, 2023)

74 hours 55 mins; October 01, 2023

Derk Venema, "Supreme Courts Under Nazi Occupation" (Amsterdam UP, 2022)

96 hours 11 mins; October 01, 2023

Joo Ok Kim, "Warring Genealogies: Race, Kinship, and the Korean War" (Temple UP, 2022)

50 mins; September 29, 2023

Gwendolyn Sasse, "Russia's War Against Ukraine" (Polity, 2023)

41 mins; September 29, 2023

Series Spotlight: Perpetrators of Organized Violence

28 mins; September 28, 2023

Megan MacKenzie, "Good Soldiers Don't Rape: The Stories We Tell About Military Sexual Violence" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

44 mins; September 24, 2023

Debra Ramsay, "Archives of War: Technology, Emotion, and History" (Routledge, 2023)

45 mins; September 24, 2023

Aaron Skabelund, "Inglorious, Illegal Bastards: Japan's Self-Defense Force During the Cold War" (Cornell UP, 2022)

47 mins; September 24, 2023

Ruth Schwertfeger, "A Nazi Camp Near Danzig: Perspectives on Shame and on the Holocaust from Stutthof" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

61 hours 52 mins; September 22, 2023

Katarzyna Person and Johannes-Dieter Steinert, "Przemysłowa Concentration Camp: The Camp, the Children, the Trials" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)

88 hours 47 mins; September 21, 2023

Erik Linstrum, "Age of Emergency: Living with Violence at the End of the British Empire" (Oxford UP, 2023)

49 mins; September 18, 2023

Rachel Chrastil, "Bismarck's War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe" (Basic Book, 2023)

62 hours 39 mins; September 17, 2023

Chris Murray, "Unknown Conflicts of the Second World War: Forgotten Fronts" (Routledge, 2019)

57 mins; September 17, 2023

John O'Donovan, "An Introduction to the Irish Civil War" (Mercier Press, 2022)

108 hours 21 mins; September 16, 2023

Avigdor Hameiri, "Under a Bloodred Sky: Avigdor Hameiri’s War Stories and Poetry" (Academic Studies Press, 2023)

81 hours 53 mins; September 15, 2023

Prit Buttar, "To Besiege a City: Leningrad 1941-42" (Osprey, 2023)

101 hours 9 mins; September 14, 2023

The Shadow War between America and Russia

64 hours 47 mins; September 13, 2023

A Better Way to Buy Books

34 mins; September 12, 2023

Alistair Moffat, "War Paths: Walking in the Shadows of the Clans" (Birlinn, 2023)

56 mins; September 10, 2023

Tylor Brand, "Famine Worlds: Life at the Edge of Suffering in Lebanon's Great War" (Stanford UP, 2023)

83 hours 41 mins; September 09, 2023

Teresa Michals, "Lame Captains and Left-Handed Admirals: Amputee Officers in Nelson's Navy" (U Virginia Press, 2021)

21 mins; September 09, 2023

Jonathan Sandler, "The English GI: World War II Graphic Memoir of a Yorkshire Schoolboy's Adventures in the United States and Europe" (2022)

58 mins; September 08, 2023

Gennifer Weisenfeld, "Gas Mask Nation: Visualizing Civil Air Defense in Wartime Japan" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

53 mins; September 05, 2023

Chuck Steele and John M. Jennings, "The Worst Military Leaders in History" (Reaktion Books, 2022)

43 mins; September 04, 2023

Salar Abdoh, "Out of Mesopotamia" (Akashic Books, 2020)

77 hours 20 mins; September 03, 2023

Kimberly Mair, "The Biopolitics of Care in Second World War Britain" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

63 hours 19 mins; September 03, 2023

Brooke L. Blower, "Americans in a World at War: Intimate Histories from the Crash of Pan Am's Yankee Clipper" (Oxford UP, 2023)

71 hours 6 mins; August 30, 2023

Mikkel Dack, "Everyday Denazification in Postwar Germany: The Fragebogen Questionnaire and Political Screening During the Allied Occupation" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

42 mins; August 30, 2023

Julian Jackson, "France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain" (Harvard UP, 2023)

58 mins; August 27, 2023

Anna Wylegała et al., "No Neighbors’ Lands in Postwar Europe: Vanishing Others" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)

75 hours 16 mins; August 25, 2023

Isadore Ryan, "No Way Out: The Irish in Wartime France, 1939–1945" (Mercier Press, 2018)

61 hours 30 mins; August 18, 2023

Samuel Ramani, "Putin's War on Ukraine: Russia’s Campaign for Global Counter-Revolution" (Hurst, 2023)

65 hours 48 mins; August 17, 2023

Paratroopers in the Pacific: A Conversation with James Fenelon

45 mins; August 15, 2023

Christopher Harrison, "Genocidal Conscription: Drafting Victims and Perpetrators Under the Guise of War" (Lexington Books, 2023)

67 hours 12 mins; August 15, 2023

Martin Plaut and Sarah Vaughan, "Understanding Ethiopia's Tigray War" (Oxford UP, 2023)

94 hours 25 mins; August 14, 2023

Mark Edele, "Russia's War Against Ukraine: The Whole Story" (Melbourne University, 2023)

45 mins; August 13, 2023

Van Nguyen-Marshall, "Between War and the State: Civil Society in South Vietnam, 1954-1975" (Southeast Asia Program, 2023)

67 hours 20 mins; August 13, 2023

Michael Broers, "Napoleon: The Decline and Fall of an Empire, 1811-1821" (Pegasus Books, 2023)

35 mins; August 12, 2023

Jacob Mikanowski, "Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land" (Pantheon Books, 2023)

72 hours 40 mins; August 11, 2023

Phillip Reid, "A Boston Schooner in the Royal Navy, 1768-1772: Commerce and Conflict in Maritime British America" (Boydell Press, 2023)

36 mins; August 10, 2023

Michael Roper, "Afterlives of War: A Descendants' History" (Manchester UP, 2023)

55 mins; August 09, 2023

Daniel Foliard, "The Violence of Colonial Photography" (Manchester UP, 2022)

76 hours 34 mins; August 08, 2023

Christopher Miller, "The War Came To Us: Life and Death in Ukraine" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

66 hours 1 min; August 04, 2023

Jill L. Newmark, "Without Concealment, Without Compromise: The Courageous Lives of Black Civil War Surgeons" (Southern Illinois UP, 2023)

56 mins; August 03, 2023

Olivier Burtin, "A Nation of Veterans: War, Citizenship, and the Welfare State in Modern America" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)

43 mins; August 03, 2023

James B. Conroy, "The Devils Will Get No Rest: FDR, Churchill, and the Plan That Won the War" (Simon and Schuster, 2023)

38 mins; August 02, 2023

Alexander Hill, "The War on the Eastern Front: The Soviet Union, 1941-1945 - A Photographic History" (Pen & Sword Military, 2021)

53 mins; August 01, 2023

Stipe Odak et al., "Jasenovac Concentration Camp: An Unfinished Past" (Routledge, 2023)

67 hours 35 mins; July 31, 2023

Diya Gupta, "India in the Second World War: An Emotional History" (Oxford UP, 2023)

57 mins; July 31, 2023

Phil Klay, "Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War" (Penguin, 2022)

68 hours 24 mins; July 30, 2023

Ian Buruma on "Year Zero: A History of 1945"

31 mins; July 29, 2023

Jeremy Black, "A History of Artillery" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023)

38 mins; July 28, 2023

Michael J. Seth, "Korea at War: Conflicts That Shaped the World" (Tuttle Publishing, 2023)

44 mins; July 27, 2023

J. Michael Rifenburg, "Drilled to Write: Becoming a Cadet Writer at a Senior Military College" (Utah State UP, 2022)

26 mins; July 27, 2023

Andrew Quilty, "August in Kabul: America's Last Days in Afghanistan" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

41 mins; July 24, 2023

John M. Findlay, "The Mobilized American West, 1940-2000" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)

71 hours 14 mins; July 24, 2023

Sheila Miyoshi Jager, "The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia" (Harvard UP, 2023)

50 mins; July 23, 2023

Nataša Jagdhuhn, "Post-Yugoslav Metamuseums: Reframing Second World War Heritage in Postconflict Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

86 hours 0 mins; July 22, 2023

Stefan Rinke, "Conquistadors and Aztecs: A History of the Fall of Tenochtitlan" (Oxford UP, 2023)

66 hours 0 mins; July 22, 2023

Mani Sharpe, "Late-Colonial French Cinema: Filming the Algerian War of Independence" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)

86 hours 31 mins; July 19, 2023

Jeffrey S. Kopstein and Jason Wittenberg, "Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust" (Cornell UP, 2018)

72 hours 7 mins; July 19, 2023

Sofya Aptekar, "Green Card Soldier: Between Model Immigrant and Security Threat" (MIT Press, 2023)

64 hours 11 mins; July 14, 2023

Jade McGlynn, "Memory Makers: The Politics of the Past in Putin's Russia" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

63 hours 20 mins; July 14, 2023

Leslie Turnberg, "Mandate: The Palestine Crucible, 1919-1939" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2021)

66 hours 36 mins; July 12, 2023

Alfred J. Rieber, "Stalin As Warlord" (Yale UP, 2022)

69 hours 31 mins; July 12, 2023

Francis L. Sampson, "Look Out Below!: A Story of the Airborne by a Paratrooper Padre" (Catholic U of America Press, 2023)

48 mins; July 11, 2023

Serhii Plokhy, "The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History" (Norton, 2023)

73 hours 33 mins; July 11, 2023

Jane Rogoyska, "Surviving Katyn: Stalin's Polish Massacre and the Search for Truth" (Oneworld, 2021)

55 mins; July 09, 2023

Justin Jordan, "And Then I Cried: Stories of a Mortuary NCO" (Tactical 16, 2012)

34 mins; July 08, 2023

Rotem Ḳovner, "Tsushima" (Oxford UP, 2022)

53 mins; July 07, 2023

Andrew Harding, "A Small, Stubborn Town: Life, Death and Defiance in Ukraine" (Ithaka, 2023)

32 mins; July 07, 2023

Danny Orbach, "Fugitives: A History of Nazi Mercenaries During the Cold War" (Pegasus Books, 2022)

58 mins; July 05, 2023

Meryl Ain, "Shadows We Carry" (Sparkspress, 2023)

27 mins; July 04, 2023

Peter Stansky, "The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War" (Stanford UP, 2023)

43 mins; July 04, 2023

Michael O'Hanlon, "Military History for the Modern Strategist: America's Major Wars Since 1861" (Brookings, 2023)

38 mins; July 01, 2023

Samuel Helfont, "Iraq Against the World: Saddam, America, and the Post-Cold War Order" (Oxford UP, 2023)

79 hours 49 mins; June 30, 2023

Kaya Sahin, "Peerless Among Princes: The Life and Times of Sultan Süleyman" (Oxford UP, 2023)

66 hours 58 mins; June 29, 2023

David E. Kelly, "First Fights in Fallujah: Marines During Operation Vigilant Resolve, in Iraq, April 2004" (Casemate, 2023)

32 mins; June 28, 2023

Alan Bollard, "Economists at War: How a Handful of Economists Helped Win and Lose the World Wars" (Oxford UP, 2020)

34 mins; June 26, 2023

Thomas W. Lippman, "Get the Damn Story: Homer Bigart and the Great Age of American Newspapers" (Georgetown UP, 2023)

75 hours 38 mins; June 24, 2023

Craig Nelson, "V Is For Victory: Franklin Roosevelt's American Revolution and the Triumph of World War II" (Scribner, 2023)

58 mins; June 24, 2023

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