The Shipwreck and the Wreath. Dissolution of Identities in Ruta Sepetys’ Salt to the Sea by Ewa Lukaszyk

“…The analysis of Sepetys’ literary vision of the end of the Second World War accentuates the element of deconstruction of monolithic identities and their manipulative potential. …”
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The Contract for the Construction of Ocean Liners MS “Piłsudski” and MS “Batory” of 29 November 1933 by Jarosław Drozd

“…After the outbreak of World War II, they were requisitioned by the British. …”
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« Rejoindre les civilisations », Victor Brauner et sa collection d’arts extra-européens by Noémie Fillon

“…The artist frequented the second generation of Parisian markets that emerged after the Second World War and also acquired works in Amsterdam. There will also be an analysis of the various ways, both distinct and complementary, he regarded the works collected –formally, intellectually, “magically” and “fraternally” – to give an account of the plural nature of his relationship to extra-European art and of the dialogue between it and his own work.…”
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TO SEE, WHILE UNABLE TO SEE: AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL PERSPECTIVES OF AN OPHTHALMOLOGIST ON THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC by C. Gouws

“…The author uses examples from the Second World War, the Soviet Union in the 1950s, the civil war in the Balkans in the 1980s, and 9/11. …”
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La Collaboration comme mode d’exercice au sein de l’agence d’architecture d’Eugène Beaudouin by Anne-Sophie Cachat-Suchet

“…The first part of the career of the architect and urban planner Eugène Beaudouin was marked by his fruitful collaboration with Marcel Lods, between 1925 and 1940. After the Second World war, Beaudouin took the lead alone as the head of his new architectural agency, yet sources reveal that he continued to work in the same way, collaborating with others. …”
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L’autoreprésentation de femmes en conflit : les récits d’emprisonnement des suffragettes by Christian Auer

“…Between 1905 and the beginning of World War I around a thousand suffragettes were imprisoned because of their political activities. …”
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Periodical Press in Alytus in 1920-1940 by Šarūnas Šimkevičius

“…This kind of publications was popular among students after the World War l. Alytus was not an exception. The bulk of periodicals in this town was published by Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party local organisations. …”
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Language Schools of MGIMO-University by G. I. Gladkov

“…Of course, in the midst of World War II, the most important foreign language seemed to be German. …”
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From Commons to Capital: The Creative Destruction of Coastal Real Estate, Environments, and Communities in the US South by Andrew W. Kahrl

“…In the decades following World War II, real estate development proliferated along the coastlines and waterways of the US South. …”
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From Uncle Tom to Nat Turner: An Overview of Slavery in American Film, 1903-2016 by Melvyn Stokes

“…In the aftermath of World War II, a more critical view of slavery began to emerge on film. …”
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Quand l’État devient banquier by Isabelle Chambost, Béatrice Touchelay

“…It shows that the State as shareholder is rooted in the imperfections of the previous system, that of the "erased State", from the beginning of the 20th century to the outbreak of the Second World War, and then in an asserted political will to install a "partner State" from 1940 to 1945 where the State entered, not without difficulty until the sixties, alongside the banking corporation.…”
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From Cybernetics to Systems Theory in the First Space Age by Christian Girard

“…Both fields appeared to tackle the pilot problem head-on, either to shoot a pilot down (cybernetics in World War II) – or to send some to the moon and back (systems engineering and management in the Apollo programme). …”
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“Uncle Vova, we are with you!” The use of childhood semantics in Russian political propaganda by Wojciech Siegień

“…The analysis proves that the semantics of the Russian propaganda message is based on patterns from previous eras with an invariant element – World War II, which is a kind of myth about the beginning of the Russian world. …”
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Saliamonas Antanaitis (1894–1973) and his research into the old mathematics by Juozas Banionis

“… Antanaitis is one of the 20th century Lithuanian professional mathematicians, who trained pedagogues at Teachers' Colleges in the 3–4th decades. After World War II S. Antanaitis worked in the Gymnasium of the 16th of February in Western Germany. …”
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L’éducation à la majorité selon Theodor W. Adorno by Alain-Patrick Olivier

“…The critical enquiry made by Theodor W. Adorno after World War II as sociologist and philosopher led him to the conclusion that not only is this process of critical and democratic education not really carried out but also the mere willingness to carry out such education remains to be evidenced. …”
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Theories of the End of the Novel by Barış Mete

“…In the twentieth century, especially after the end of the Second World War, the novel became the subject of the discussions about a sense of an ending. …”
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Městská správa v době nacistické okupace. Příčiny a důsledky vzniku Velké Ostravy v roce 1941 by Lubomír Nenička

“…The analysis of particular examples based largely on unpublished archival sources and newspapers can be used as a base for forming more general conclusions concerning nature of the German occupation policy during Second World War. …”
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One-Man Lobby in America: Vahan Cardashian (1883-1934) by Kürşad, Karacagil

“…Diplomatic relations that were severed in 1917 with the entrance of US into the World War could be reestablished only in 1927. One of the major factors in this delay was the anti-Turkish activities undertaken by Armenians living in US. …”
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The Firebombing of Tokyo: Views from the Ground by Cary Karacas, Bret Fisk

“…More than sixty-five years after the Great Tokyo Air Raid of March 10, 1945, and the subsequent firebombing and destruction of Japan's cities by the United States Army Air Forces in World War II, the issues remain little known and less studied. …”
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Building Longitudinal Datasets From Diverse Historical Data in Australia by Janet McCalman

“…It has also preserved all service and pension data from both world wars. Through nominal linkage using volunteers and paid research staff, it has been possible over the past twenty years to build four cradle-to-grave datasets derived from administrative cohorts: poor white babies born in a charity hospital 1858–1900; Aboriginal Victorians from 1855 to 1988; convicts transported to Van Diemen’s Land 1818-1853 and servicemen who embarked for World War I from the State of Victoria. …”
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