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History of Ukraine: Second World War

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Harvest of Despair. Life and Death in Ukraine Under Nazi Rule

Kael C Berkhoff

Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2004
ISBN 0-674-01313-1

A study of the German occupation of Soviet Ukraine from 1941 to 1944, focusing on the daily lives of the citizens who found themselves forced to conform to the dictates of the Nazi regime.

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The Battle for the Ukraine. The Red Army's Korsun'-Shevchenkovskii Offensive, 1944

Translated and edited by David M. Glantz and Harold S. Orenstein

London - Portland, Oregon: Frank Cass Publishers, 2003
ISBN 0-7146-5278-4 (cloth)

Translation of a Soviet General Staff study of the Second World War Red Army offensive against 70,000 German troops stationed around Korsun'-Shevchenkivs'kyi in Ukraine which precipitated the subsequent withdrawal of German forces from Ukraine.

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Ukraine - The Challenges of World War II

Edited by Taras Hunczak and Dmytro Shtohryn

Lanham - Boulder - New York - Toronto - Oxford: University Press of America, 2003
ISBN 0-7618-2637-8 (cloth)

A collection of articles on various aspects of the history of Ukraine during the Second World War, focusing on the response of the Ukrainian people to the challenges presented by the war.

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Trophies of War and Empire. The Archival Heritage of Ukraine, World War II, and the International Politics of Restitution

Patricia Kennedy Grimsted

Cambridge MA: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2001
ISBN 0-916458-76-8

Based on 35 years of research in the archives of the USSR and post-Soviet Ukraine and Russia, the book contains a detailed analysis of the Ukraine-related archival legal issues arising from the cultural plunder resulting from the Second World War and the dissolution of the USSR.

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The Grand Alliance and Ukrainian Refugees

Marta Dyczok

Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000
ISBN 0333714547

This study explores the role of refugees in international relations by looking at the largest involuntary migration of Ukrainians in history. Using both Western and newly available Soviet sources it sheds light on Grand Alliance policies towards World War II Ukrainian refugees. It demonstrates how the activities of this particular group of refugees had an impact on international refugee policy and provides insight into the origins of the Cold War.

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Anglo-American Perspectives on the Ukrainian Question 1938-1951. A Documentary Collection

Lubomyr Y. Luciuk and Bohdan S. Kordan

Kingston, Ontario - Vestal, New York: The Limestone Press, 1987
ISBN 0-919642-11-X

A collection of documents, mainly from British and US national archives, which as a whole indicate the pattern of the relationship between the Ukrainian independence movement and the leading powers of the western alliance prior to, during, and just after the Second World War, with a focus on the Anglo-American perspective.

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Ukraine during World War II. History and its Aftermath

Edited by Yury Boshyk

Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, 1986
ISBN 0-920862-37-3 (bound), 0-920862-36-5 (pbk.)

Based on papers and discussions from a symposium held in Toronto in March 1985 to examine issues arising from the Soviet and Nazi occupations of Ukrainian territory during World War II.