Map on lining-papers. 256 pages frontispiece, plates 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-232) and index. 240 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, plans, portraits ; 25 cm

Demonstration by Red Front during election campaign. A low aerial shot of people parading down a street, some of whom play instruments. Ground level shots of people marching with signs and banners, including a poster of Lenin, and children with letter signs spelling out "Krieg dem Kriege". A mechanical sign of a Nazi hitting worker on the head, or perhaps a communist hitting a worker on the head (?). ...

Issue 166, Part 5: Japanese kamikaze planes strike the battleship Nevada and the carrier Ticonderoga.

World in Film. Issue no. 20 (1940-1949) 03:39:08 "Last Fight Pictures from the Pacific." British Naval and air units at sea. HS, US convoy under way. Admiral Rawlings, British officer being transported from his ship at sea via breech buoy to an American ship alongside. GSAP pictures of Japanese land installation being strafed. MS, Admiral William F Halsey aboard ship speaking to group of men in fire ...

Part 1, Ceremonies at Compiegne. Part 2, Allied troops advance through mud and snow in Europe. Part 3, the German battleship Tirpitz is bombed and sunk on the coast of Norway. Hitler at its launching in 1939. British Air Marshall Harris. Part 4, Japanese-American soldiers rescue soldiers of the 36th Division surrounded in France.

TIME weekly newsmagazine: "Crisis in the Atlantic", 1941. The March of Time, "The Atlantic 1941" LS, three warships in convoy. One sends blinker signal. INTs, captain and two attendants in ship's cabin. Aircraft carriers, battleships and destroyers in Atlantic Ocean. Full screen view, US fighter planes depart. LSs, MSs, Navy Dept building in Washington DC, as civilian workers enter. Sec of Navy, Frank ...

A chronicle of the coming of World War I in which the author focuses chiefly on England and Germany. It tells the behind-the-scenes story of the personalities, events and optimism that propelled the world towards war. Includes bibliographical references (pages 915-921). 1004 pages

Excerpts from Michael Kuball's documentary "Soul of a Century," with narration (sound quality is bad). The first scenes show the demolition of the Dortmund synagogue in October 1938. A handwritten title reads: "Where the good Dortmund beer is brewed (Dortmund Union Brewery), October 1938". Cut to Hitler Youth marching in Hamburg, 1941, and then to the battleship Bismarck firing a salute. Another title ...

Part 1, Navy Day parade in Washington, D.C., and the battleship Iowa joining a Pacific fleet. Part 2, Eleanor Roosevelt views an exhibition of paintings by service men in New York city. Part 3, Boys in Maryland grade schools attend sewing and cooking classes. Part 4, Battle shots of Marines in the Pacific. Part 5, German troops flee through the streets of Antwerp. The Belgian underground sabotages ...

Drive in 1936 via Salzburg to the Black Sea, impressions from the Balkan Reichsautobahnbrücke and Munich border. 00:21:53 Sea, France, soldiers, Paris, Eiffel Tower, Atlantic coast, port. Red Cross column. 00:40:50 Excavator loads railroad cars, motive: Westwallbau, Organization Todt. 00:57:40 rail transport. 00:58:17 Freiburg. 01:08:35 Winter: Postman on skis with packages. 10:14:00 Bridge for Reichsautobahn. ...

Universal Newsreel, Vol. 5, No. 131, Part 1. Release date, 03/27/1933. Meeting of Jews in Madison Square Garden denouncing Nazis' intolerance. MLS, well-dressed men in dark suits, crowding onto sidewalk, men pushing, pushed and organized by cops in long coats. Inside stadium: LS from high above of crowd/audience, CU Rabbi Stephen S. Wise (man with puffy eyes), speaker (former governor of New York, ...

This book presents World War II and the American Occupation of Japan as experienced in Oita Prefecture through first-hand accounts of 40 Japanese men and women who lived through the war as students, midwives, nurses, teachers, journalists, soldiers, sailors, Kamikaze pilots, munitions factory workers, and housewives. Their stories of spirited support for the war, to loss of friends from American air ...

Narration. U.S. War Dept. Misc. 1170. Different houses of worship. People pray, sing. Ministers, priests and rabbis. American soldiers read the Bible. “Battles are won by military power, wars are won by spiritual power.” Military chaplains present communion wafers to soldiers kneeling. Army chaplain provides a group of soldiers with cigarettes, magazines, and letters. They smile and laugh. Chaplain ...

News documentary with intertitles produced for the home movie market by Castle Films Productions. "The News Parade of the Year 1945" "Now it can be seen! British Battleship Bombed!" "Nazi U-Boat scores direct hit on HMS Barham" "Hitler’s V-2 bomb exposed by Allies" "Millions mourn the death of President Roosevelt, Truman succeeds as President" "Soviets last offensive in the heart of Berlin" "Prime ...

01:00:00 Line of troops walking across chunks of snow and ice, wearing dark clothing that makes them stand out. Mountains in background. Brief shot of a large boat, which appears to be stuck in the ice. Title: "Pioniere setzen mit Schlauchbooten ueber den vereisten Rhein" [Engineers set up inflatable dinghies on the frozen Rhein]. The engineers use a foot pump to inflate a dinghy, then a wide shot ...

Part 3 (Reel 1): German assault troops land on river edge and advance rapidly through city streets. LS, bombed buildings explode as soldiers move forward along streets. HS, harbor. MCU, CU, heavy artillery fire. Telescopic view of area which is being shelled. LS, battleship in harbor fires directly upon port city. MS, civilians of Poland exit from shelters. Travel shot, troops and mobilized equipment ...

Diplomatic dispatches, cables, and confidential reports sent by the Argentine embassies and consulates in Europe to the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Relations and Culture in Buenos Aires during World War II and in the immediate postwar years. Includes information about Jewish refugees and visa applicants, the political relationship between Argentina and Nazi Germany, a list of the crew of the German ...

Titles: "Soviet newsreel / 78 / August 15, 1941"/ "Glory"/ "To brave defenders of the Homeland"/ "Presiding chairman of the Supreme Court of the USSR Comrade Kalinin gives out awards and medals" Several MS of Kalinin shaking hands with and presenting awards to soldiers. Tracking LSs of battleships. CUs naval officer and several soldiers. Titles: 01:12:00 "N Squadron, our brave Falcons"/ Film-reporting ...

04:08:10 NR-85 Army Pictorial Service - Film Report (Silent) Effects of Bombing by USAAF in Italy, October 6, 1943. VS, Italian refugee women and children in flight, enter town, carrying their small belongings. CU, sign at improvised bridge: George Washington Bridge. LS, US Army truck moves through bomb-wrecked city passing ruined church and much debris. CU, religious statues in church. AV, town showing ...

Title: "1940 " Title: "Invasion of Denmark and Norway, 9 April 1940" LSs of battleships, Nazi flag flying, men on deck. MCU, large gun, infantry with machine guns, troops looking through glasses, planes flying above harbor, Nazi troops parading through streets of Denmark, boats landing at Copenhagen. INT, airplane loaded with troops and bicycles. Airview of Norway coast. Planes landing, soldiers marching ...

A Castle Films showcase of news events for the year 1941 with English titles: "War-Five Years! China fights on as tension in Pacific grows!" "Siege of Tobruk! British guns repel year-long Axis attack!" 01:01:04 "Balkan crisis! Nazis overwhelm heroic Greeks!" Ruins, shocked civilians, wounded. Crowds of troops. 01:01:25 "Germans halted! Capture of Iraq stops Hitler's march toward Suez!" Air warfare, ...

Title: "Soviet newsreel / 59 / 1941 / M. Fidelevoy"/ "Radio address of the USSR's Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars and the People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs, V.M. Molotov / June 22, 1941" MS of Molotov. Voiceover of Molotov speech: "Today at 4 a.m. ... without declaring war, Germany attacked our country ... the attack was perpetrated despite a pact of non-aggression between the USSR ...

Reel 3 of the English language version of "The Nazi Plan" produced by Twentieth Century Fox with new graphics. Title: "1936." "Reoccupation of the Rhineland 7 March 1936." Newsreel footage and brief audio of troops marching into the Rhineland. Title: "Minister von Neurath expresses confidence all Germans will vote approval of Hitler's policies 29 March 1936." Von Neurath speaking. Hess, Frick, Goebbels ...