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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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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A Tumor-Like Lump in the Palm Caused by an Inconspicuous-for 75 Years-Bullet by Efstratios D. Athanaselis, Apostolos Fyllos, Nikolaos Stefanou, Socrates E. Varitimidis, Dimitrios Giannikas

“…Excision of a tumor-like soft tissue mass revealed a 75-year-old World War II bullet fragment of which patient was unaware. …”
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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L’économie politique de l’Asie : état des lieux et perspectives de recherche pour l’Asie du Sud-Est by Pierre Alary, Elsa Lafaye de Micheaux

“…Asian and Southeast Asian countries have recorded deep socioeconomic transformations since World War 2. These main transformations are: introduction of capitalist regimes; high growth rates, urbanisation and demographic weight. …”
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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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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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The Journey of Plastics: Historical Development, Environmental Challenges, and the Emergence of Bioplastics for Single-Use Products by Jade Stanley, David Culliton, Antonio-Jonay Jovani-Sancho, Adriana Cunha Neves

“…Its observations include the rise of mass plastic production during World War II and the post-war development, showcasing plastics’ economic and societal impact. …”
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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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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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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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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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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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