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Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CHAPTER 1 Childhood and School Years -- CHAPTER 2 The Brewery Years -- CHAPTER 3 Poland and the Phoney War -- CHAPTER 4 The Battle for Norway -- CHAPTER 5 Night-Bombing Missions -- CHAPTER 6 Training and Replacement -- CHAPTER 7 Diversion to Casablanca -- CHAPTER 8 The High-Altitude Kommando -- CHAPTER 9 Radar Kommando Götz -- CHAPTER 10 The Beginning of My Career as a Pilot -- CHAPTER 11 A Wasted Opportunity -- CHAPTER 12 Kommando Sperling -- CHAPTER 13 Kommando Hecht -- CHAPTER 14 Kommando Sommer -- CHAPTER 15 The End and a New Beginning -- AFTERWORD -- APPENDIX Memories of Horst Götz -- LIST OF TERMINOLOGY -- Index.

Just before WW2, the British government prepared for an aerial onslaught that was predicted to raze cities and cause mass casualties. By 1938, the Air Raid Precautions Act officially stated that population protection would be through dispersal, meaning evacuation and small-scale protection, local authority responsibility often devolving to householders. Archaeological records of remaining air-raid shelters are relatively rare and under threat. This paper reports on geophysical surveys on three sites in Stoke-on-Trent and London. Results found three intact Stanton shelters in Stoke-on-Trent, located by GPR, electrical resistivity, magnetometry, gravity and electromagnetic methods. In London, partially demolished shelters and an intact, mass public shelter were both detected by EM and GPR methods, with subsequent intrusive investigations confirming results. Study outcomes shows hitherto-neglected wartime shelters are in varied condition, with geophysical surveys able to detect, characterise and assess them, helping bring WWII British history into the wider scientific community and public domain.

We demonstrate that even though during WWII the interest rate was close to zero supporting the financing of the military effort, dissent inside the FOMC occurred with a similar frequency to other policy episodes. Our analysis highlights that the debates which resulted in dissents turned around two broad issues: the size of the Fed's balance sheet as well as the functioning of and communication with financial markets. Thus, we argue that the conventional view depicting the Fed as merely accommodating treasury needs should be revised. Our detailed investigation of dissents emphasises the modernity of the objections raised by Fed officials.

We demonstrate that even though during WWII the interest rate was close to zero supporting the financing of the military effort, dissent inside the FOMC occurred with a similar frequency to other policy episodes. Our analysis highlights that the debates which resulted in dissents turned around two broad issues: the size of the Fed's balance sheet as well as the functioning of and communication with financial markets. Thus, we argue that the conventional view depicting the Fed as merely accommodating treasury needs should be revised. Our detailed investigation of dissents emphasises the modernity of the objections raised by Fed officials.

We demonstrate that even though during WWII the interest rate was close to zero supporting the financing of the military effort, dissent inside the FOMC occurred with a similar frequency to other policy episodes. Our analysis highlights that the debates which resulted in dissents turned around two broad issues: the size of the Fed's balance sheet as well as the functioning of and communication with financial markets. Thus, we argue that the conventional view depicting the Fed as merely accommodating treasury needs should be revised. Our detailed investigation of dissents emphasises the modernity of the objections raised by Fed officials.

Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Chapter 1 The Girl in the Wood -- Chapter 2 There Was a War On -- Chapter 3 Joan Pearl Wolfe -- Chapter 4 The Lovers -- Chapter 5 Softly, Softly … -- Chapter 6 'Fit to Stand His Trial' -- Chapter 7 Half-Breed -- Chapter 8 Who Killed the Wigwam Girl? -- Bibliography -- Plates Section.

The American military occupation of Japan after 1945 has served as a widely admired example of successful post-conflict management. MacArthur's General Headquarters not only achieved demilitarization and democratization of Japanese society, but also economic growth through decentralization, equalization and liberalization. Military occupations throughout the world have ever since drawn on this Japanese experience. However, seen from the recent example of Iraq, lessons drawn from Japan have not necessarily been very successful, since the country has not escaped from chaos and instability. Most academic research in the past has focused on political and economic reforms carried out by General MacArthur. This paper will attempt to emphasize two factors rarely accounted for: 1) attainment of postwar internal security through anti-disturbance measures, and 2) marginalization of the occupation of outlying regions, such as Okinawa. The first factor established the ground for the execution of the better known postwar reforms, and the second factor shows that occupation of some peripheral Japanese areas has been much less successful than has been the case for the mainland. The results of this research are twofold. That 1) stabilization was not the achievement of the occupier, but rather the result of the conscious efforts by the occupied, and that 2) the occupation of Japan was inextricably linked to the marginalization of Okinawa. In order to be more realistic, the lessons to be drawn from the occupation of Japan should be less focused on the occupation as a U.S. undertaking and should take into consideration important socio-cultural factors.