The Destruction of Architecture by Federico De Matteis

“…The Allied bombing campaigns over the German cities during World War II produced a vast landscape of destruction, which has been the object of reports, accounts and fictional narratives. …”
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Kay Boyle and Mary Reynolds: Friendship Intensified by War by Page DOUGHERTY DELANO

“…In this article, I explore the friendship that existed between Kay Boyle and Mary Reynolds, primarily during World War II. For both of them, their engagement in the war, Boyle as an anti-Fascist fiction writer, and Reynolds as a participant in the French Resistance, shifted their sense of citizenship—as women, as women sharing allegiances both to France and the U.S., and as engaged people. …”
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Venezia dei bassifondi: la città dei marginali, della classe operaia e del pittoresco popolare by Alessandro Casellato

“…It shows how concepts such as “tradition” and “local identity” have been contended and used by different political subjects (the Catholic Church and the Socialist Party in the first two decades of the 20th century, the nazional-fascismo between the two world wars, the Communist Party and again the Catholic Church after World War II).…”
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Selected issues on theory and methodology of the underground press by Wanda Krystyna Roman

“…Another example of such a phenomenon was the underground press published in occupied Polish territories during World War II. The underground press played a very important role in the Polish resistance movement. …”
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Unreal Cities: the Veterans’ Homecoming and the Fate of Postwar Noir by Benoît Tadié

“…Noir fiction was shaped, in the aftermath of World War II, by a generation of ex-servicemen who wrote, under the guise of crime stories, about the difficulty of returning to American cities and civilian life. …”
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Limity důvěry. Bývalí vojáci Wehrmachtu ve službě u československého letectva v Británii za druhé světové války by Zdenko Maršálek

“… The paper explores the trust limitations of the Czechoslovak exile authorities during World War II towards those volunteers of the Czechoslovak exile military forces who had formerly served in the Wehrmacht. …”
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Mocarna duchem zmartwychwstańskim. Alicja Kotowska CR – zakonnica, nauczycielka, męczenniczka, błogosławiona by Joanna Pyszna

“…Account for her saintly life and the suffered death at the hand of the occupant, she was exalted to the glory of alters in 1999 among 108 Polish martyrs of World War II.     …”
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Las políticas de ayuda y de evacuación de los refugiados españoles en Francia durante la ocupación nazi by Ángel Herrerín López

“…The hard conditions imposed by French authorities to these refugees got worse with the Nazi occupation of France during World War II. Spanish organizations such as the Servicio de Evacuación de Refugiados Españoles (SERE) and the Junta de Auxilio a los Republicanos Españoles (JARE) took care of them. …”
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Open Water Jumping: Clearing Obstacles in the Negotiation of French Rights to The Black Stallion by Cécile Cottenet

“…The story of the introduction of the series in France in the aftermath of World War II, and its inclusion in this now-classic library of children’s texts, is largely unknown. …”
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Le canard était toujours vivant ! De Troppmann à Weidmann, la fin des complaintes criminelles, 1870-1939 by Jean-François “Maxou” Heintzen

“…Against the commonly accepted idea according to which criminal laments would have disappeared from France at the end of the 19th century, and replaced by the “short news items” column in popular dailies, the present article follows their transformation until the eve of World War II. With a corpus of mainly provincial broadsheets we examine the evolution of the lament paper copy, of its underlying melody, of its style and content, and also of its publishing and trading. …”
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Гибридизация русского старообрядческого говора в Польше by Stefan Grzybowski

“…The dialect of Old-Believers, who have lived in Poland on North-Eastern borderlands since the end of 18th century, has retained its Russian, Pskovian character for a long time. After World War II it became an island dialect, and in the last 30–40 years, due to a number of reasons, it started to change under growing Polish influence. …”
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Changes in the use practitioner-based complementary and alternative medicine over time in Canada: Cohort and period effects. by Mayilee Canizares, Sheilah Hogg-Johnson, Monique A M Gignac, Richard H Glazier, Elizabeth M Badley

“…We examined chiropractic and other practitioner-based CAM use with a focus on five birth cohorts: pre-World War II (born 1925-1934); World War II (born 1935-1944); older baby boomers (born 1945-1954); younger baby boomers (born 1955-1964); and Gen Xers (born 1965-1974). …”
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The Politics of Voice in Duke Ellington’s Beggar’s Holiday (1946) by James O’Leary

“…By analyzing a number of recordings of Beggar’s Holiday’s opening song, “In Between,” I demonstrate that Ellington and Latouche simultaneously invoked and undermined this aesthetic dichotomy to make an intervention into post-World War II left-wing political debates.…”
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The Property Tax and Its Pratice in the City of Aydın by Serap TABAK

“…In 1942, some Turkish citizens gained great benefits by the increasing inflation in the period of the World War II. 1 million men were under arms because of World War 2. …”
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Signs of Innovation in European Cinema. Electronic Music in Antonioni and Tarkovsky by Gabriele

“… In the process of the emancipation of film music that took place in the first decades after World War II, the filmography of Michelangelo Antonioni and Andrei Tarkovsky offers multiple points of interest. …”
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When Ethnic Identity is a Private Matter by Kjell Olsen

“…This article analyses the change of articulation of ethnic boundaries on the coastline and the fjord areas in Finnmark, Northern Norway in the post-World War II period. From being a ‘social stigma’ in the 1950s a Sámi identity is today something that can be expressed in certain cultural constructed spaces. …”
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Sole Native Authority (SNA) and the People at War: A Historical Review of the 1948 Erunkoja tax Riot in Ile-Ife by Abiodun S. Afolabi

“…The paper argues that the increase in taxes after World War II had a political underpinning to the protest that led to the Erunkoja riot of 1948. …”
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Mémoires métisses de la guerre dans A Gesture Life de Chang-rae Lee by Michaël Taugis

“…Franklin Hata, the main character of A Gesture Life is a Japanese immigrant of Korean descent who seems to lead a peaceful life in a small American city but he is in fact haunted by his past as a medic in the Japanese army during World War II, by the crimes and atrocities perpetrated by soldiers and officers. …”
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School of Diplomatic English by D. A. Kryachkov

“…Chair of English Language № 1 considers itself the successor of the English Language Chair, established at the Faculty of International Relations at the Moscow State University during the World War II. After the Faculty was reformed into MGIMO the Department of English Language began to grow rapidly. …”
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Ancient Art in the Collection of the National Museum in Gdańsk by Grzegorz First

“…The remaining artifacts stored in Gdańsk have not been thoroughly studied; they do not form a homogeneous collection, and it cannot be ruled out that they may also be remnants of former bourgeois collections dating back to the 16th century or German collections acquired in Gdańsk after World War II. …”
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