Nature’s Song under the Bombs: Pastoral Echoes in some Scottish War Poems by Stéphanie NOIRARD

“…It then focuses on anti-pastoral and the impact the idea of a waste-land had on World War II poetry, considering how the sounds of nature can still be heard in a ruined world of bombed cities and human atrocities. …”
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The Destruction and Reconstruction of North Korea, 1950 - 1960 by Charles Armstrong

“…American planes dropped 635,000 tons of bombs on Korea -- that is, essentially on North Korea --including 32,557 tons of napalm, compared to 503,000 tons of bombs dropped in the entire Pacific theatre of World War II.2 The number of Korean dead, injured or missing by war's end approached three million, ten percent of the overall population. …”
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Examining the Claims about the Relationship Between the Holocaust, and the Armenian Deportation by Murat Köylü

“…Immediately after Stefan Ihrig, who is at the center of these debates and who received his Ph.D. degree in 2014 for his doctoral dissertation "Nazi Perceptions of the New Turkey, 1919-1945", published his dissertation as a book titled "Atatürk in the Nazi Imagination" by Harvard University Press, columnists of some newspapers published in Turkey, criticized Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who was founded in the 1920s and came to power from 1933 until the end of World War II. The book began to focus on how Atatürk and the newly established Turkish Republic were portrayed in the newspapers and speeches of politicians close to the Nazi Party, which was founded in the 1920s and remained in power from 1933 until the end of World War II. …”
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Compositeur-librettiste : choix ou nécessité ? by Aude Ameille

“…After World War II, an increasing number of composers came to write their own libretti. …”
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United in Times of War: Reading Mickey in 1940-1944 France by Eva Van De Wiele

“…Reflecting implied rather than actual readers, these sections reveal how, during World War II, children were both provided with consolation for the war and distraction from it, and mobilized and engaged in the war effort. …”
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Old believers in the 20th century of Lithuania by Grigorijus Potašenko

“…Generally, before World War II, over 50,000 Old Believers inhabited Poland.   …”
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La télévision dans les démocraties. Années 30-années 1980 by Evelyne Cohen

“…Between the thirties and the eighties, television was transformed into an essential actor on the political, social and cultural scene of Western democracies. At the end of World War II, television started to be associated with the expression of the democratic ideals of society. …”
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To Cover or to Hide? The Role of the Media in the Trials of the Nazis and Their Collaborators by Tomas Vaiseta

“….), Making Justice Visible: War Crimes Trials, Media and Memory after World War II, Osnabrück: fibre Verlag, 2022. …”
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The question of Baltic states in the policy of the Great Western powers in 1943 by Ramojus Kraujelis

“… The fate of the Lithuania and other Baltic States was determined during the years of World War II. The most important, still unanswered question in Lithuanian historiography is when exactly the fate of Baltic States was doomed. …”
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Culture et propagande franquiste dans l’Argentine péroniste by Laurent Bonardi

“…The end of World War II and the international condemnation of Spain put Franco’s regime in a very delicate situation. …”
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La communication internationale : état des lieux et perspectives de recherche pour le XXIe siècle by Christian Agbobli

“…From the importance of communication for development (a tradition that grew after the end of World War II), the field is now broken up into various objects (media coverage, information technology and communication, cultural diversity, etc.) and different geographical areas. …”
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The Life and Death of de-Baathification by Hazem Saghieh

“…De-Baathification policies begun in 2003 and abandoned in 2004, were justified essentially in terms of the German and Japanese experiences following World War II. These policies however, emerged from the beginning as forms of revenge, not only against the Ba’ath as a party and system, but also against the "Sunni Triangle" and Arab nationalism. …”
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Le Havre: de cidade reconstruída a patrimônio moderno by Jéssica Gomes da Silva, Ana Elisabete de Almeida Medeiros

“…The French city of Le Havre, today a World Heritage Site recognized by Unesco in 2005, had its urban center practically rebuilt after the bombings of World War II. The long process that separates these two dates, from 1944, the year of destruction, until 2005, the date of recognition, was marked by countless actions, discussions and agents that involved its patrimonialization. …”
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La opción corporativista en Argentina y Chile: agrupaciones políticas y círculos intelectuales (1930-1970) by Gabriela Gomes

“…This paper intends to review the nationalist, fascist and catholic groups in favor of the corporatist doctrine in its state and anti-state version in Argentina and Chile between 1930 and 1970. At the end of World War II corporatism was discredited, however did not disappear from the political scene, but it adapted to different contexts and lasted for a long time. …”
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The War in Ukraine and Migration to Poland: Outlook and Challenges by Maciej Duszczyk, Paweł Kaczmarczyk

“…Abstract The war initiated by Russia against Ukraine in February 2022 has resulted in the largest refugee migration in Europe since World War II, estimated by UNHCR (2022) at 6.3 million persons. …”
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Deconstruction of “The Pilgrim’s Progress” by John Bunyan in Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade” by Nataliya Krynytska

“…Despite the satire and absurdity of the world in Slaughterhouse-Five, it contains the features of the jeremiad: “an Elect” is Billy Pilgrim, Vonnegut’s alter ego, “an exodus” is his service in the US Army during World War II, “an errand into the wilderness” is Billy’s move to Europe and participation in the Battle of the Bulge, then his capture, and the punishment of sinners – the Dresden tragedy. …”
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Le film de mobilisation centrasiatique by Valérie Pozner

“…This little set of motives was recycled in various genra (feature shorts, musicals, documentaries) which are analyzed here on the example of the production of the main Soviet studio during the World War II, that of Alma-Ata.…”
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Le Havre : de ville reconstruite à patrimoine moderne by Jéssica Gomes da Silva, Ana Elisabete de Almeida Medeiros

“…The French city of Le Havre, today a World Heritage Site recognized by Unesco in 2005, had its urban center practically rebuilt after the bombings of World War II. The long process that separates these two dates, from 1944, the year of destruction, until 2005, the date of recognition, was marked by countless actions, discussions and agents that involved its patrimonialization. …”
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Actual problems of studying of history of Kursk fight by A. V. Isayev

“…In article the author addresses to debatable problems of a domestic and foreign historiography of fight near Kursk, pushes together opinions of military historians with memoirs certificates and estimates of battles of World War II of commanders confronting on fields, refers to new documents, defending the judgments. …”
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Donald Barthelme’s The King: The Manifold Guises of (an) American(’s) Memory by Aurélie Delevallée

“…Since The King (1990) transposes the Arthurian myth into World War II, this article first aims at analyzing the posthumous novel by Donald Barthelme (1931-1989) as an allohistory staging the meeting of history and memory, two somehow antithetical notions. …”
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