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In this excerpt from Justice in Asia and the Pacific Region, 1945-1952, Yuma Totani explores the impacts of WWII as the Allied powers brought war crimes trials against the Japanese. The pursuit of justice shed new light on war in the Philippines.
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This week will mark the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The American bombings effectively ended the Second World War, killed over 100,000 people, and raised complicated questions about nuclear weapons and the limits of war. In an excerpt from his book The Most Controversial Decision, Wilson D. Miscamble explores the complicated legacy of those events.
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John C. G. Röhl, the author of a three volume biography of Wilhelm II (most recently: Wilhelm II: Into the Abyss of War and Exile, 1900–1941), explores the role of the impulsive Kaiser Wilhelm II in the beginning of the First World War.
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Calling Columbia’s bluff: Cambridge author Stephen Norwood responds to President Lee Bollinger’s article representing the university as a champion of free speech and press. Not so fast. Exhibits A & B – from Norwood’s recent book, The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower – Columbia ruined the academic careers of Robert Burke and Jerome Klein […]
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Today is Veteran’s Day, and so I give you my favorite piece from today’s papers: “…Oil from the engine covered the windscreen of his Hurricane so he climbed away, slowed the aircraft down to almost stalling speed, loosened his harness, stood on his seat and leant out of the cockpit in an attempt to clean […]
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