Samuel Stouffer and the GI Survey : Sociologists and Soldiers during the Second World War. by Ryan, Joseph W., 1962-

Full text (Wentworth users only)

Against the draft : essays on conscientious objection from the Radical Reformation to the Second World War / Peter Brock. by Brock, Peter, 1920-2006

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Conscientious Objection among the Polish Antitrinitarians -- 2 A Polish Antitrinitarian in Defence of Conscientious Objection to Military Service (1575) -- 3 Conscientious Objection among the Doopsgezinden -- 4 Experiences of Quakers Pressed into the Royal Navy -- 5 Conscientious Objectors in Revolutionary and Napoleonic France -- 6 The Peace Sects of Upper Canada and the Military Question -- 7 Militia Objectors in the Channel Islands -- 8 When Seventh-day Adventists First Faced the Draft: Civil-War America -- 9 Quaker Conscientious Objectors in Norway, 1814-1902 -- 10 Nazarenes Confront Conscription in Dualist Hungary -- 11 Tolstoy and the Imprisonment of Conscientious Objectors in Imperial Russia -- 12 The Škarvan Case: The Trial and Imprisonment of a Slovak Tolstoyan -- 13 The Emergence of Conscientious Objection in Japan -- 14 'Boy Conscription' in Australia and New Zealand: The Experiences of the Conscientious Resisters -- 15 Prison Samizdat of British Conscientious Objectors in Two World Wars -- 16 Weaponless in the British Armed Forces: The Non-Combatant Corps in the First World War -- 17 Hobhouse and Brockway: Conscientious Objectors as Pioneer Convict Criminologists -- 18 The Confinement of Conscientious Objectors as Psychiatric Patients in First-World-War Germany -- 19 Imperial Russia at War and the Conscientious Objector, August 1914-February 1917 -- 20 Vladimir Chertkov and the Tolstoyan Antimilitarist Movement in the Soviet Union -- 21 Experiences of Conscientious Objectors in the Soviet Union to 1945 -- 22 Conscientious Objectors in Interwar Poland -- 23 Six Weeks at Hawkspur Green: A Pacifist Episode during the Battle of Britain -- 24 British Conscientious Objectors as Medical Paratroopers in the Second World War.…”
Full text (Wentworth users only)

Knowing one's enemies : intelligence assessment before the two world wars / edited by Ernest R. May.

Table of Contents: “…Andrew ; French estimates of Germany's operational war plans / Jan Karl Tanenbaum -- The Second World War. Western Europe. Great Britain before 1914 / Paul M. …”
Full text (Wentworth users only)

A history of chemical warfare / Kim Coleman. by Coleman, Kim, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…-- The First World War -- The Inter-War Years 1919-1939 -- The Second World War -- The Soviet Threat, Korea and Vietnam 1945-1975 -- The Middle East, Afghanistan, Bosnia and the Gulf -- Chemical Terrorism -- Controlling Chemical Weapons.…”
Full text (Wentworth users only)

Working in a world of hurt : trauma and resilience in the narratives of medical personnel in warzones / Carol Acton and Jane Potter. by Acton, Carol, 1958-, Potter, Jane (Lecturer)

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- 'These frightful sights would work havoc with one's brain : First World War writings by medical personnel -- 'Over there' : American confidence and the narrative of resilience in the Great War -- 'You damn well just got on with your job' : medical personnel and the invasion of Europe in the Second World War -- 'It was a tough life and I did all I could to lighten the men;s burden' : British POW medics' memoirs of the Second World War -- Claiming trauma : women in the Vietnam War -- Crying silently : doctors and medics in the Vietnam War -- Fatal injury -- Conclusion: 'Shared experiences and meanings'.…”
Full text (Wentworth users only)

Strategic cousins : Australian and Canadian expeditionary forces and the British and American empires / John C. Blaxland. by Blaxland, John Charles, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Prior to the First World War -- First World War -- Inter-war years -- Second World War -- Cold War onset -- Cold War divergence -- Post-Cold War reconvergence -- Responding to the long war on terrorism.…”
Full text (Wentworth users only)

Air power history : turning points from Kitty Hawk to Kosovo / edited by Sebastian Cox and Peter Gray with an introduction by Richard Overy.

Table of Contents: “…Goulter -- The Luftwaffe and lessons learned in the Spanish Civil War / James S. Corum -- The Second World War as a turning point in air power / Richard P. …”
Full text (Wentworth users only)

Veterans with a vision : Canada's war blinded in peace and war / Serge Marc Durflinger. by Durflinger, Serge Marc, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Canada's First War blinded, 1899-1918 -- The Sir Arthur Pearson Club of War Blinded Soldiers and Sailors, 1919-29 -- Rehabilitating the blinded casualties of the Second World War, 1939-50 -- Older and wiser : Canada's war blinded in the aftermath of war, 1945-70 -- Twilight, 1971-2002.…”
Full text (Wentworth users only)

Women and the French Army during the World Wars, 1914-1940 / Andrew Orr. by Orr, Andrew, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…"She remained at her post until the very end" : women and the Second World War -- Conclusion.…”
Full text (Wentworth users only)

The Soviet military experience : a history of the Soviet Army, 1917-1991 / Roger R. Reese. by Reese, Roger R.

Table of Contents: “…The birth of The Red Army -- The Civil War, and Polish-Soviet War, 1917-21 -- The Red Army between the wars, 1922-39 -- PUR and the army: the political side of military service -- The Red Army and the Second World War, 1939-45 -- The Cold War years, 1946-91 -- The war in Afghanistan and the Gorbachev era, 1979-91.…”
Full text (Wentworth users only)

Air power : a global history / Jeremy Black. by Black, Jeremy, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…The start of a new arm -- The First World War -- The 1920s -- The 1930s -- The Second World War -- The early Cold War, 1946-1962 -- The Cold War: the middle period, 1963-1975 -- The later Cold War, 1976-1989 -- Air power and the Revolution in Military Affairs, 1990-2003 -- A complex reality, 2004-2015 -- Into the future -- Conclusions.…”
Full text (Wentworth users only)

Arms, Economics and British Strategy : From Dreadnoughts to Hydrogen Bombs. by Peden, G. C.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The dreadnought era, 1904-1914; 2 The First World War; 3 Retrenchment and rearmament, 1919-1939; 4 The Second World War; 5 The impacts of the atomic bomb and the Cold War, 1945-1954; 6 The hydrogen bomb, the economy and decolonisation, 1954-1969; Conclusion; Select bibliography; Index.…”
Full text (Wentworth users only)

Warfare in woods and forests / Anthony Clayton ; foreword by Charles Guthrie. by Clayton, Anthony, 1928-

Table of Contents: “…The First World War, 1918; 8. The Second World War, 1939-45; 9. Post-1945 and Conclusion; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index…”
Full text (Wentworth users only)

Beyond nationalism : a social and political history of the Habsburg officer corps, 1848-1918 / István Deák. by Deák, István

Table of Contents: “…From the Turkish Wars to the Revolutions of 1848: An Early History -- Absolutism, Liberal Reform, and the Ideology of Preventive War: The Army Between 1850 and 1914 -- The Making of Future Officers -- Life in the Regiment -- From Payday to Payday -- Latter-Day Knights -- Marriage, Family, Sexual Ethics, and Crime -- Pensioners, Widows, and Orphans -- Nobles and Near-Nobles in the Officer Corps -- Religion, Nationality, Advanced Training, and Career -- The Officers in the Great War -- Epilogue Habsburg Officers in the Successor States and in the Second World War -- Appendix I: On Belles-Lettres, Memoirs, and Histories -- Appendix II: Place Names.…”
Full text (Wentworth users only)

Race and Gender in Modern Western Warfare by Ulbrich, David

Table of Contents: “…Gender and Race on the Homefronts in the Second World War; 8. Race and Gender in the United States during the Early Cold War; 9. …”
Full text (Wentworth users only)

Hitler's Swedes : a History of the Swedish Volunteers in the Waffen-SS. by Larsson, Lars

Table of Contents: “…Cover ; Title ; Copyright ; Contents ; List of photographs ; List of maps ; Introduction & Acknowledgements ; 1 Sweden and the Second World War ; 2 National Socialism in Sweden ; 3 The Waffen-SS ; 4 Recruitment in Sweden ; 5 Swedish Volunteers in 5th SS Division 'Wiking' ; Map section ; 6 Swedish Volunteers in the III. …”
Full text (Wentworth users only)

War Stories : the War Memoir in History and Literature. by Dwyer, Philip G.

Table of Contents: “…; Chapter 7 Post-Soviet Russian Memoirs of the Second World War; Chapter 8 Reimagining the Yugoslav Partisan Epic; Chapter 9 The War That Was Not; Chapter 10 Remembering the 'Endless' Partition.…”
Full text (Wentworth users only)

African Military Geosciences Military History and the Physical Environment. by Bezuidenhout, Jacques

Table of Contents: “…Comparison of German, Italian and British maps for assessment of off-road trafficability in North Africa -- German landscape classification for off-road trafficability -- Comparative scope and importance of military geology workin the preparation of trafficability maps for Axis and British forces in North Africa -- Conclusion -- Endnotes and References -- CHAPTER 7: The influence of geography on the development of the Second World War defences of Saldanha Bay harbour -- Introduction -- The geography of the Saldanha Bay area -- Saldanha before the outbreak of the Second World War…”
Full text (Wentworth users only)

Government and the armed forces in Britain, 1856-1990 / edited by Paul Smith.

Table of Contents: “…Philpott -- Sir Thomas Inskip as Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence, 1936-39 / Sean Greenwood -- Waltzing with Winston : civil-military relations in the Second World War / Alex Danchev -- 'Vested interests and vanished dreams' : Duncan Sandys, the Chiefs of Staff and the 1957 White Paper / Martin S. …”
Full text (Wentworth users only)

Pathogens for War : Biological Weapons, Canadian Life Scientists, and North American Biodefence. by Avery, Donald H.

Full text (Wentworth users only)