Pike, David Wingeate

Spaniards in the Holocaust : Mauthausen, the horror on the Danube by David Wingeate Pike( )

29 editions published between 2000 and 2015 in 3 languages and held by 2,057 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This important work focuses on the experience of the large Spanish contingent within the Mauthausen concentration camp, one of the least known but most terrible camps in Nazi Germany. Refugees from the repercussions of the Civil War, 7,000 Spanish Republicans were arrested in France by the invading Nazis in the collapse of 1940. A microcosm of the experience of national prisoner communities, their story possesses a unique historical value. No other national group succeeded in placing its members in all the key clerical positions in the SS administration, and no other group managed to hide and save all its basic records. Vilified by Franco and condemned by Hitler, their story makes an outstanding contribution to the literature of the holocaust

Crimes against women by Eileen Servidio( )

15 editions published between 2010 and 2011 in English and held by 1,391 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This book presents a survey of acts of violence, past and present, that women have endured throughout the world. The articles take a broad variety of approaches, ranging from the philosophical and legalistic to the narrative reporting of contributors working in the field

In the service of Stalin : the Spanish Communists in exile, 1939-1945 by David Wingeate Pike( Book )

17 editions published between 1993 and 2013 in English and held by 475 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This is the epic story of those tens of thousands of communists exiled from Spain after Franco's victory in the Spanish Civil War. With their iron discipline and fervent dedication to Stalin's cause, they did not hesitate, when the moment came in the Second World War, to throw themselves again into the struggle against fascism. In the Service of Stalin is the first full scholarly study of their experiences. David Wingeate Pike examines the contribution of the Spanish communists to the resistance in France and recounts their sufferings in Mauthausen, the concentration camp in Austria to which most who were captured were consigned. He also traces the experiences of those thousands who were admitted into the Soviet Union, where they fought in the Red Army or languished and perished in the prisons and slave camps of the Gulag. Professor Pike's unparalleled access to the archives, many previously unexplored, and the information derived from his interviews with survivors combine to make this both an important addition to our knowledge of the Second World War and an enthralling, often moving account of the experiences of some of its participants

Franco and the Axis stigma by David Wingeate Pike( Book )

21 editions published between 2008 and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 314 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Set against the background of major events in Europe and the world in the period 1939-45, Franco and the Axis Stigma provides a systematic examination of the Franco press in all of its four dimensions - Church, military, monarchist and Falangist - representing the four differing expressions of what was then a totalitarian regime. What it reveals is that the regime's yearning for an Axis victory never waned up to the bitter end."--Jacket

Les Français et la guerre d'Espagne by David Wingeate Pike( Book )

7 editions published in 1975 in French and held by 235 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

France divided : the French and the Civil War in Spain by David Wingeate Pike( Book )

11 editions published between 2011 and 2013 in English and Spanish and held by 155 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"This book sets out to analyse the schism in French public opinion during the Spanish Civil War that was to end in the tragic collapse of French national unity. It makes no claim to being a new history of the conflict, or even of the international events surrounding it. It touches only cursorily upon the events in Spain proper. It considers only tangentially French public opinion in regard to the two Spains. Instead, it examines how the French people viewed their position in the international imbroglio swirling around the Spanish question, and how news was manipulated as never before. And since opinion polls were inexistent and radio commentary had little influence, almost the only means of gauging public opinion is the press. Mainstream historical fact is presented merely as the skeleton on which French press reportage is grafted. Included in the historical material is the author's research in the archives of all five of the French départements bordering on Spain. Within the press, four areas predominate: editorial opinion; propaganda; French correspondents in Spain; and collateral events in France (frontier incidents, arms supplies, foreign volunteers, and espionage activities). The work is divided into two parts, the chronological hiatus coming in December 1936. This division is explained by the policy formulated by the democracies that went through no appreciable change; a policy sufficiently strong, perhaps, to deter the Axis powers from all-out intervention in Spain, but weak enough to allow them to pursue with impunity a victory by attrition. The periodic opening and closing of the French frontier played no decisive part in the outcome, since French aid to the Spanish Republic never came close to what the Axis provided the Nationalists. The book ends with the agony of the Republican exodus"--Provided by publisher

The Closing of the Second World War : twilight of a totalitarianism( Book )

5 editions published in 2001 in English and held by 143 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"This book, a worthy sequel to The Opening of the Second World War (Peter Lang, 1991), takes an unprecedented approach: the closing of the war from the losing side's point of view. The period discussed spans from January 1945, with the end of Hitler's last hope (the Ardennes counter-offensive), to the Japanese surrender in mid-August. The situation for the Axis is presented by German, Italian, and Japanese historians, and the "Allied" responses are by British, French, Russian, American, Slovene, and New Zealand scholars. The foreword covers commemorative events in Germany, Italy, and Japan in the period 1990-1999."--BOOK JACKET

Jours de gloire, jours de honte : le parti communiste d'Espagne en France, depuis son arrivée en 1939 jusqu'à son départ en 1950 by David Wingeate Pike( Book )

11 editions published in 1984 in French and held by 123 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Vae victis! Los republicanos españoles refugiados en Francia 1939-1944 by David Wingeate Pike( Book )

14 editions published in 1969 in 4 languages and held by 120 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The opening of the Second World War : proceedings of the second International Conference on International Relations, held at the American University of Paris, September 26-30, 1989 by International Conference on International Relations( Book )

8 editions published in 1991 in English and German and held by 113 WorldCat member libraries worldwide