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"Holidays in the Danger Zone exposes the mundane and everyday entanglements between two seemingly opposed worlds warfare and tourism. Debbie Lisle shows how a tourist sensibility shapes the behavior of soldiers in war especially the experiences of Western military forces in exotic settings. This includes not only R & R but also how battlefields themselves become landscapes of leisure and tourism. It ...

Includes bibliographical references (pages 63-64). 64 pages 21 cm

The Channel Islands were what could have happened to all of us: a test-run of German occupation. That was certainly Hitler's plan. Once Britain had demilitarised the idyllic, unspoilt holiday islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney and Sark in 1940 their fate was sealed: in July the Germans invaded. The following five years in their history offer an intriguing, and often uncomfortable, virtual history ...

Every year, for the Passover holiday, Ornstein wrote a story relating one of her experiences during the Holocaust. This is a compilation of some of those stories. She was born in 1927 in Szendro, Hungary. Ornstein's high school studies in Debrecen were interrupted by the German occupation in March 1944. Her two brothers were recruited for forced labor. In June 1944 she and her parents were deported ...

An unprecedented aspect of Nazi genocide in World War II was the cold and deliberate decision not to spare the children. Jewish children, first driven into the ghettos, were marked for total destruction as part of the "Final Solution" once it was put into effect, in 1942. Gentile children were starved, killed, or Germanized in order to reduce the Polish nation to a small complement of semi-literate ...