The Lithuanian historian Jerzy Orda by Sigitas Jegelevičius

“…This study is considered to be the first historiographical review after the Second World War and has many features of the survey of written historical sources. …”
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Erken Cumhuriyet Dönemi Türk-Alman Askerî İlişkileri ve General Hilmar von Mittelberger’in Harp Okullarındaki Faaliyetleri by Resul ALKAN

“…The German general, who returned to his country with the beginning of the Second World War, attended the talks about Turkey at the headquarters of his country’s general staff, where he informed the generals of the German army about Turkey’s defense power…”
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It Is Not All Because of Socialism — On East-West Differences and Their Origins by Sascha O. Becker, Lukas Mergele, Ludger Wößmann

“…The paper finds that the populations of East and West Germany already differed before the division, that the GDR and FRG were unequally affected by the Second World War, and that selective East-West migration took place during the division. …”
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Virginia Woolf’s “Modernist Renaissance” in “Anon”: A Singular Counter-History by Anne Besnault

“…In the months preceding her death, the Second World War was putting all ideas of renewal at bay: to rewrite Britain’s cultural history, whether in the form of a play-poem with Between the Acts (1940) or in the form of a critical literary history had become an urgent act of hope in the midst of despair. …”
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“They paved the Atlantic with books”: William and Jenny Bradley, literary agents and cultural passeurs across borders by Laurence Cossu-Beaumont

“…The archive offers privileged access to an array of transatlantic negotiations in the interwar period and post-Second World War era. This article first aims at including the two agents into the communications circuit relevant to book history that unfolds from writer to editor and on to reader, at a time when the book industry became more international. …”
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Fearlessness and Resistance in the Gulag: Estonian Prison Camp Poetry by Rebekka Lotman

“… During and after the Second World War, over 50,000 Estonians were sent to Soviet prison and forced labour camps. …”
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Življenje kralja Petra II. Karađorđevića po drugi svetovni vojni v luči ohranjenih britanskih dokumentov by Blaž Torkar

“…Based on an analysis of British archival documents and published literature, this article discusses the life of Peter II Karađorđević, King of Yugoslavia, after the Second World War. In 1945, the king was deprived of all power as a ruler, and the Yugoslav monarch found himself in exile. …”
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CATHOLIC POLITICAL DOCTRINE DURING THE WORLD WARS by G. T. Sardaryan

“…The subject of the study is the perception of political ideologies, movements and parties development problems by the Catholic Church, during the period of the First and Second World War. The object of the study is the Catholic political doctrine during the pontificate of Benedict XV, Pius XI and Pius XII. …”
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WOMEN OF UKRAINIAN ANTI-NAZI UNDERGROUND REFLECTED IN HISTORICAL ANTROPOLOGY by M. A. Slobodyanyuk, T. O. Radkevich

“…The purpose of this paper is to study the behaviour of women in extreme conditions, to establish various social roles of women, ways of their adaptation to extreme conditions on the example of Ukrainian anti-Nazi underground during Second World War. Theoretical basis. The authors derive from the fact that historical anhropology is a leading and promising area of historical research. …”
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Trends in Mortality from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in Alberta: Back to the Future? by Tee L Guidotti

“…The sustained rise in mortality in older age groups after the Second World War is presumably related to smoking habits. …”
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Amerika Birleşik Devletleri’nin NSC-68 Çerçevesinde Uyguladığı Soğuk Savaş Stratejisi ve Türkiye’ye Yansımaları by Serpil GÜDÜL

“…After the Second World War, in order to close the gap in the balance of power in world politics, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) increased its influence in Central and Eastern Europe and partially in the Balkans and developed its nuclear capacity. …”
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The Happy Warrior: Winston Churchill and the Representation of War, 1895–1901 by Antoine Capet

“…Most people today only remember his massive role in the British war effort during the Second World War, but in fact he was an active participant in more distant conflicts—as frontline observer or combatant—as early as 1895, when he used his parents’ connections in high places to obtain permission to go to Cuba, where a war of independence was taking place. …”
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The dream that never dies: the ideals and realities of cosmopolitanism in science, 1870–1940 by Robert Fox

“…A “national turn” during the 1920s assumed a darker form in the 1930s, as totalitarian regimes in the Soviet Union, Italy, Germany, and Spain associated science ever more closely with national interests. Although the Second World War further undermined the ideal of internationalism in science, the vision of science as part of a world culture open to all soon resurfaced, notably in UNESCO. …”
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The Destruction and Reconstruction of North Korea, 1950 - 1960 by Charles Armstrong

“…The physical destruction and loss of life on both sides was almost beyond comprehension, but the North suffered the greater damage, due to American saturation bombing and the scorched-earth policy of the retreating UN forces.1 The US Air Force estimated that North Korea's destruction was proportionately greater than that of Japan in the Second World War, where the US had turned 64 major cities to rubble and used the atomic bomb to destroy two others. …”
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NUCLEAR STRIKE AGAINST HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI. WARCRIME, THAT COULD BE AVOIDED by N. P. Parkhitko

“…Military, political and psychological aspects, that were crucial for American military planning at the latest stage of the Second World War are taken into consideration. Also the problems of the new reality in the global policy of that period, which made it possible to demonstrate the military power in such a destructive way, are investigated. …”
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OSTRICHES AND GEOTOURISM: THE EVOLUTIONARY PATHWAY OF A SMALL TOWN TOURISM DESTINATION IN SOUTH AFRICA by Christian M. ROGERSON, Jayne M. ROGERSON

“…In the period after the Second World War, the local tourism economy diversifies with the revival and reorientation of ostrich farming which incorporates ostriches as tourism attractions. …”
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The USSR Victory in World War II and the Emergence of the Independent Republic of Indonesia by L. M. Efimova

“…The recognition on the side of international community as well as diplomatic support became\e vital for the survival of the newly emerged Republic.The Soviet victory together with the allied nations in the Second World War, the new status of the USSR as a superpower, its constant anticolonial stance stimulated former colonies to appeal to the Soviet Union for backing and support. …”
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CONTEMPORARY EUROSCEPTICISM AS A CHALLENGE TO EUROPEAN SOLIDARITY by M. O. Shibkova

“…At the outset of the integration project construction the advantage of the Old Continent unification after being destroyed by the Second World War was apparent. However, with the European Union transformation and the emergence of new challenges, Eurosceptic voices are becoming louder and an increasing number of states start to question the efficiency of supranational institutions and choose to take measures on their own. …”
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THE CONCEPT OF “THE CONCERT OF EUROPE” IN XX CENTURY BRITISH AND AMERICAN HISTORIOGRAPHY by E. V. Romanova

“…Whereas in the second half of the 1910s - early 1920s historians pointed to the deficiencies of the international system of the preceding century (and in particular, the institution of the Concert of Europe), the students of the Vienna system working after the Second World War regarded the period of 1815-1914 as relatively stable, compared to the short interwar interlude. …”
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Kościół na drodze ku „Nostra Aetate”.Zarys relacji chrześcijańsko-żydowskich w XX w. przed II wojną światową by Andrzej Tulej

“… A review of the chosen teachings of the Church concerning Jews and Judaism – both official and unofficial – showed that in the twentieth century, before the Second World War, the Church spoke especially in response to the errors of racism, statolatry and various forms of Antisemitism. …”
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